add some documentation about shareable widgets

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Creating New Widgets
====================
If you want a widget named 'slugfish', create widget/slugfish.php containing
### Class Widgets
To create a class-based widget named 'slugfish' create a file with the following contents:
````
<?php
namespace Zotlabs\Widget;
class Slugfish {
function widget($args) {
... widget code goes here.
... The function returns a string which is the HTML content of the widget.
... $args is a named array which is passed any [var] variables from the layout editor
... For instance [widget=slugfish][var=count]3[/var][/widget] will populate $args with
... [ 'count' => 3 ]
}
````
The resultant file may be placed in widget/Slugfish/Slugfish.php , or Zotlabs/SiteWidgets/Slugfish.php . It also may be linked from a git repository using util/add_widget_repo.
Traditional function based widget:
If you want a widget named 'slugfish', create widget/widget_slugfish.php containing
<?php
function widget_slugfish($args) {
.. widget code goes here
.. widget code goes here. See above information for class-based widgets for details.
}