I’ve made a WordPress widget called RSSPhoto that pulls images from photoblog RSS or Atom feeds and displays a thumbnail in the sidebar (I’m using it in my sidebar).  I mentioned the beginnings of this project a couple posts back.  That one was pulling images straight out of my database though.  This version is more generic and uses the SimplePie PHP library for parsing feeds.

Even though I say it pulls from photoblog feeds, really it can pull from any feed–it will just pull one of the images out of the content of a feed item.  I’ve used it to pull Flickr RSS feeds and a couple other random ones.  I also installed it easily on Emily’s blog.

Check it out on my new Projects page (direct link).  If you have a WordPress blog, try it out and let me know how your experience was.  I’d definitely appreciate any feedback.