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I want to widgetize a plugin. Can someone point me to docs on how to do this. I prefer not to use a plugin to widgetize, ala widgetize everything. Using 2.6.1. The plugin i want to widgetize is from xiando, friends-list. Thaks for any help.

Have a look at the google search widget that is part of the default. or it was when widgets were still a plugin. it's well-documented in the plugin itself.

Open up the file widgets.php in the wp-includes directory.
Scroll down to the bottom and there is a pattern for building a widget. The code doesn't have many comments in it, but you should be able to work things out.

Thanks for your replies. So i need a widgets.php file in the friends-list folder? I am not sure how this will effect it but the plugin is in the mu-plugins folder..Does that matter? Please bear with me as i ask these questions: i am unsure where in the widgets.php code i need to start. Is it the commented out section or before that?

No no no no no..... don't move that file.

*Read* it.

Then make a new plugin using a similar set of widget functions as in the template near the bottom, and put THAT one in your plugins folder.