I’m trying to catch up on things around here, getting a little behind on the Zero to Hero Challenge, but here’s my take on the one for Day 10: Widgets.
I already had quite a few widgets on my blog. It’s taken me some time to figure out how to get them on here and how to get them to work like they’re supposed to. I still have a lot of work to do in that department.
So, I didn’t add 2 more widgets today. I found one that I had been wanting to add and it took me quite a while to figure out how to do it and then to add all the updates I wanted to. I actually got a little sick of it so I’m sure I missed a few places.
I found this one of cities where I’ve been on www.geckogo.com. I started playing around with it and signed up on the site and then got into all the other stuff on there. It just sucked me in. 😉
So, I finally got the widget finished and uploaded it onto my blog. I like it. 🙂
I think there must be tons of things to do with widgets on here. I’m still trying to figure out how to get some of them to work.
For instance, I’ve been trying to get one from Amazon to work for a couple of weeks now. It’s a blog and I think it’s pretty cool. It’s not trying to sell you anything, it’s just a neat scrolling list of comments on various books. It looks like my twitter feed.
I still can’t get it to show up here as anything but a plain link. It doesn’t even link to the book feed like I’d like, but to a half dozen different feeds. I’m still messing around with it but won’t put it up here until I can get it to work right. Anybody out there know how to do it?
Hey there! I believe the code needed for this Amazon widget isn’t allowed here at WordPress.com for security reasons:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/
You can use any link or widget consisting of only plain HTML, and you can also use a text or image widget to upload your own image and link it to your Amazon site:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/
Hope that helps 🙂
thanks! I’ll have to fiddle with it some more when I get time.