Widget control - putting a slideshow in the widget area

Question

I am trying to put a slideshow in the widget area of my wordress theme... do you know of anyway to do this instead of html in the widget area?

Thanks

Kevin

Answer 1

Use the technique I posted here: How to process content in a widget? and do whatever you want with the string values in Widget properties before display.

You can even enable shortcodes in Widgets.

Answer 2

Two basic approaches would be:

1. Modify template file and insert/call code near where sidebar is called.

2. Create custom widget with your code or call to it and place it in sidebar.