had done earlier and I now have a multi-instance widget saving and retrieving all the settings I need for the widget I'm creating. I knew there was a good reason why this article/post was in the Top 10 on Stuff-to-Tweet. Nice job Justin. Since my cracker skills are meager at best, I figure I'll have to send my Rent a Coder buddy here so he can brush up on your How To Make a Widget Work in WP How many of your reader's have asked you what your hourly rate is? BTW, what is it? Stphane Gallay -- The reason you won't find this in tutorials is because people that code widgets generally know this. Where to put your widget code depends on what you're doing. Are you adding it to a theme? Are you adding it to a plugin? Thanks that was just what I needed You created a nice and clean example that was very easy to follow. I did have one issue but it wasn't with your code it was with the text editor(visual studio) I was using, switched to phpDesigner and now everything works fine. Hey I just want to say thank you! Once I followed it through bit by bit, I began understanding it a lot better, and I've nearly completed my first widget. Oh, and a little tip for anyone else trying to learn this stuff -- don't just copy paste it. Type it all out bit by bit -- it's invaluable to understand