The Daily Dilbert WordPress widget
The Daily Dilbert WordPress widget is a WordPress implementation of the Dilbert daily comic strip widget as published by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
This plug-in adds a Daily Dilbert Comic widget to the Sidebar Arrangement page, which can be added in the normal fashion. Just drag-n-drop the widget into the sidebar to add it to your blog.
Compatibility
This plug-in has been tested to work with WordPress version 2.7.3.
Download
Download The Daily Dilbert WordPress widget version 1.0.2
Installation
To install the widget on your WordPress blog follow the following steps:
- Uncompress the downloaded archive in /wp-content/plugins.
- Activate the plugin in your WordPress plugins control panel. The plugin should show up as ‘grf-Dilbert’ in the list of inactive plugins. Just click the ‘Activate’-link on the right.
- Go to the “Appearance” section, and select the “Widgets”-subsection.
- Add the “The Daily Dilbert”-widget to the sidebar. Do this by clicking on ‘Add’-link behind the item named ‘The Daily Dilbert’.
- Position the widget within the sidebar. You can simply do this by dragging the ‘The Daily Dilbert’-entry on the right side of the panel and and dropping it between the other widgets where you want to have it positioned.
- If desired, enter a custom widget title by selecting the “Configure”-button and changing the title.
- Click on the “Save Changes”-button on the page.
- Edit your styles.css of your active template to tweak the presentation.
This plug-in is ludicrously simple, so I do not expect you to run into any problems. However if you have some issues with it, please leave a post and I will have a look at it. Suggestions on improvement are welcome as well. 
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This is a great plug in
Works perfectly on 2.6.3…. Awesome, Thanks.
Anything for Cyanide and Happiness by any chance?
Hi Gareth,
I will look into that.
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I have updated the installation instructions and submitted a new ‘version’ of the plugin to the wordpress plugin repository.
how do we put it in a post instead of the sidebar?
Right now, the plug-in only works as a sidebar widget. In order to make it work in a post, you’d either need to just include the flash object or modify the plug-in.
I can have a look into modifying the plug-in so that you can optionally include it into a post.
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I guess I’m being daft, but my widget is not centred like yours, and I cant see how to! Any Ideas?
Hi Brian,
The way I did that was add an entry to the CSS that targets the ID of the widget. You can add this code to your style.css:
.widget_grf_dilbert {
text-align: center;
}
hi plugin looks great but so how can i modify the plugin, to make it work in a post? (i dont know code..). alternatively i tried to get the rss feed from the dilbert site to work in a post or page too, but it wont show the image, for some reason…
Hi Kas,
Unless you have it on a page or a sticky post I wouldn’t recommend modifying the plug-in. The plug-in uses a flash object supplied by the United Feature Syndicate. If you are interested I’d suggest you go to the following page: http://widget.dilbert.com/ and grab the embed code.
I’ve done some work to make it possible to import independent Dilbert comics to a post but never got around to finish it. it should work with an RSS-feed importer as long as the import can handle HTML-decoding.
On a related note: I should just get off my ass and finish the new version of the plug-in.