Wordpress Widgets

I spent some time this morning working on http://www.thecausalamericansguidetothespreadofcommunisminthewest.com and I think I finally have an interest in making a Wordpress widget. I want to make a widget that taps into the gallery and media manager features of Wordpress to display thumbnails of related posts in the sidebar. Think of it like Amazon.com's "you may also like" feature.

As you may or may not know, this site is powered by Drupal. Unlike Wordpress, Drupal has a feature called Views that allows you to easily select and display content in a couple of different ways. The difficult/frustrating part of views is the complexity of CSS and code required if you want to display content in a way that varies greatly from what Drupal comes with out of the box.