Archive for the 'widget' Category

Does Amazon’s new Page Recommendation and Product Reccomendation in one widget make sense?  I see the logic from the programmer’s point of view, both processes have the same first steps - scan the text and check for relevance with another data source.  As a blogger and reader I’m not as sure there’s a connection at [...]

Toluu is a new RSS sharing and suggestion tool that is getting close to emerging from beta (let me know of you want an invite and I’ll see what I can do). I threw together a quick widget to allow Wordpress users with widgetized sidebars to easily add and customize a [...]

To fully duplicate the functionality of my instructions on adding TipJoy to your Wordpress theme, the TipJoy TipThis plugin needed to allow users to place a tipjoy badge/banner on the sidebar. So I set out to learn how to create a widget for Wordpress. The results are my earlier Spottt Widget and now [...]

The latest beta version of the TipThis plugin now has a sidebar widget! This will allow users who don’t want to spam their blog frontpage with Tip This buttons to have a way to accept tips on their main page. Just go to the Presentation portion of your Wordpress admin dashboard and drag [...]

If you are using Spottt on a Wordpress blog you’ll have to insert the code that Spottt gives you to embed into your theme’s sidebar code. This is hardly user friendly. so I decided to put together the Spottt Wordpress Widget for Wordpress blogs that support widgets. Bookmark this post for updates!
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