hackblog@wonderwinds

I know how you feel: if you're actually using multiple blogs it hurts your fingers to try to manage your widgets effectively. Blog settings, pick a blog, pick a container, install a new widget, up arrow until it is where you want it. Repeat until FINALLY everything is just right. Until you want to add a new widget You're sitting there thinking "wow this really hurts my fingers".

Okay no problem: we can fix that, but first let's know exactly WHY we need to fix that. Global Warming. Global warming is b-a-d BAD! That's right: every time you're forced to click a hundred times to set up your widgets you are contributing to global warming. All the energy you burn to move your fingers combined with all the energy it takes to fire your computer combined with all the energy it takes to transfer the new settings to your server combined with all the energy it takes to actually save those new settings combined with all the energy it takes to show you the results of saving those new settings is enough to melt an iceberg or two, and we don't want to melt any icebergs. Do we? Now ask yourself: are you still thinking about your little fingers getting tired, or are you concerned more with your children's children's children not living in a world submerged by rising seas with nary a chance to heave a rock encased in a snowball drizzled with water for that "extra crunch" action at an unsuspecting motorist? I thought so. Follow me then and together we'll save the planet.

What Widget Manager will do for you is help you manage your widgets by letting you copy the widget setup from one blog to another. It won't give you total control over all aspects of all widgets in all blogs, but it gets you started. For example if you want your linkblog widget in the same place on all blogs BUT want to use a different linkblog this won't help that much. It copies widgets exactly from here to there, meaning it'll copy the blog selected as the linkblog from here to there. So you would have to warm up the planet a bit to select the appropriate blog as linkblog in the other blog(s).

Anyway make damn sure you have a backup of your database before you run this thing. I ran the copy part on my test installation and the rebuilder part on this blog before writing this post, without adverse affects, but hey you never know. This plugin directly tweaks your core database tables, so have a backup just in case things get squirrelly somewhere.

Download it, unzip it, upload it, install it via your Global Settings tab, then go to your Blog settings tab to place it on your blog. ... and read the readme!