Custom Yahoo Status WPWidget

EDIT: plugin now available at Wordpress.org here. Wow that was fast! I gave it a 3 star rating. Download the plugin here I’ve been working with WordPress for quite awhile already but I never really read the plugin API for it. So after some stretch of boredom, in between Pugad Baboy and Neal Stephenson, I decided to channel Rachel Ray and “cook up” a wordpress plugin in 30 minutes.Totally Irrelevant Photo There are a lot of tutorials showing you how to use the “undocumented API” to embed Yahoo Messenger badges onto your website/blog. I call it undocumented ‘coz I haven’t found the official documentation describing the API (If anyone knows of the official documentation for this, that would be so awesome). So, the said webservice takes your Yahoo!ID as a parameter and returns a gif image which indicates your current presence/status on the messenger service.    The webservice is accessed from the URL: http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=[username]&m=g&t=1. ...