I was complaining about K2 in #wordpress earlier, when Shorty told me to try out the self-contained plugin that gives you the same functionality as K2 Modules.
I jumped at the idea, since anyone who’s ever used K2 Modules knows that they kick sooo much ass that Wordpress Widgets will never touch. A quick Google got me Nybble Labs’ Sidebar Modules. There are no instructions, so it was a bit of a gamble getting things working. Happily, I found that it wasn’t tough at all.
Sidebar Modules use the same hooks that the Automattic Widgets do, so there are no additional changes that need to be made to your theme for them to work. Just disable Automattic Widgets, enable Sidebar Modules, and you’re good to go. It even supports the custom widgets plugin I wrote for an enhanced search form. Now how cool is that?
Just one more plugin to add to the list of amazingly useful Wordpress addons!
Well I must say that the SBM is better but I for the life of me fear using it in our plugin because WP 2.2 is going to be a favorite among users for sure.
If I had a way to do both I would.
Great post by the way.
~ Jared Ritchey