This is the first release of a widget I’ve written for wordpress. It’s nothing spectacular, it’s just a script that reads in lines from your fortune database and spits out a random one in your sidebar. I love the fortune program, and I’m just tickled to make it into a widget. Basically it does what you see in the header up at the top of this page (reload the page to make it change), but in a list item in the sidebar.

Requirements:

• A theme that supports widgets
• Henrik Aasted Sorenson’s fortune.php script
• a local install of the unix fortune program, or local access to the fortune database files.

instructions for installation and usage are in the downloadable file.

Download it now: .zip .tgz