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Widget mania!

Posted by James on Wednesday, July 25th 2007

We love out widgets here at edublogs, we surely do, and there’s nothing so much that brings a smile to our faces than some swinging sidebar shenanigans!

And, given that, I’m delighted to officially unveil out Twitter and VodPod widgets:

Widgets at edublogs

As ever, just click through to ‘Presentation’ > ‘Widgets’ and you’ll be able to select these two which allow you add your latest, ahem, ‘tweets’ to your sidebar and all your fave VodPod videos.

19 responses so far ↓

ggannell

July 25th 2007 at 3:45 pm

What I’d really like to to be able to have a widget that shows me my Library Thing library - covers and all. The Library site gives me the javascript to do it on blogger, but for some reason, edublogs doesn’t seem to support it

James

July 25th 2007 at 5:19 pm

Well, we’ll have a look into that :)

Unfortunately we can’t allow javascript for the same reasons they have on wordpress.com: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/javascript-can-i-use-that-on-my-blog/

But we are also working on a solution to that.. so stay tuned.

Cathy Wolinsky

July 26th 2007 at 12:37 am

I’m having trouble with my ShowYourselfWidget on http://yestech.edublogs.org/. I’m in a class with Alice Barr and the code seems similar on hers, but mine is not displaying correctly.

James

July 26th 2007 at 8:49 am

I don’t believe we have a widget by that name, could you post some more information (code, steps you are taking) in the forums please: http://edublogs.org/forums

ihancock

July 26th 2007 at 2:22 pm

Hey ggannell,

I got my Librarything widget to work. You can see mine at ihancock.edublogs.org.

I just went to Librarything, clicked on the tools button, selected my settings then copied the code. Once I had the code I went to the widgets on edublogs, chose a text box to insert in the side column and posted my code in there saving it after.

Hope that helps. I’m trying to get my shutterchance photos as a widget on my blog but I haven’t figured out how to do that yet.

Good luck
Ian

James

July 26th 2007 at 7:05 pm

Sorry Ian, that wasn’t supposed to be possible :(

Same reason as here: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/javascript-can-i-use-that-on-my-blog/

However, we’ll endeavour to get a librarything widhet in place asap.

ihancock

July 27th 2007 at 1:38 am

Oh dear!! Now my sidebar looks so empty!!

I also wouldn’t mind a blogroll widget as well for my link.

Here is the code for it:

Thanks
Ian

James

July 27th 2007 at 8:28 am

Sorry :(

We will have a fix soon though, promise… you can use the ‘Links’ widget to display your blogroll?

msmac

July 31st 2007 at 9:32 am

What about the cloud tags’ widget for edublogs and a stats counter?

James

July 31st 2007 at 10:00 am

tag clouds for individual blogs coming soon (edublogs as a whole also arriving shortly) and some internal stats too… in the meantime you can always use Google Analytics, but I know what you mean about having it as a widget.