A Quick Recent Entrecard Drops Widget
For all of you WordPress Entrecarders out there, have you ever wanted your own “Recently Dropped” widget? Been looking for one somewhere and just can’t find it? Well, there’s one built into WordPress. It’s called the RSS widget. However, it can’t really be modified and it can kind of look ugly.
That’s where KB Advanced RSS Widget comes in. This is what you need to do:
- Go to that link and download and install the plug-in. (Installing plugins is beyond the scope of this article, but there are plenty of sources for it on the Internet)
- Activate the plugin under your Plugins tab.
- Go to your Presentation Tab and then click on the Widgets sub tab. You should have a widget available now called “KB Advanced RSS 1.”
- Drag that widget to where you want it in your sidebar graphical map. Click on the lined button next to it.
- Fill out the blanks to look something like the following screen shot. However, make sure to use the link from your own Inbox RSS feed at Entrecard.
- Make sure the “Link item to Feed URL?” box is Unchecked or else it leads them to the login page at Entrecard. Also, leave the “RSS Icon URL” section blank. That gets rid of the unnecessary RSS orange box. You just want to show off the Entrecarders who drop on your site. You don’t want others to subscribe to your Inbox. Or do you? Oh, and pick your own number of cards to show. It doesn’t have to be 5.
- Feel free to play around with the fields at the bottom. The field marked as “What HTML should precede the feed?” would be a good place to throw in some stuff right before the list, such as a link directly to Entrecard
- Enjoy your new Entrecard Widget!
Didn’t know you had an Inbox RSS feed for EntreCard? Well, you do. Look for the orange button above your Inbox on Entrecard. Right-click and copy the link location.
Here is the final result, it will look different on your blog since its based on the WordPress theme and sidebar.
For blogspot blogs, go to the blogs Dashboard > Template > Page Elements
Click the Add a Page Element option on the sidebar and choose the feed widget. Enter the RSS feed URL and viola you have made your self the Recent EntreCarders widget.
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Goodness! This would be a nice widget to have!
Thanks for sharing this, mate!
Much appreciated!
Cheers, mate.
How would you do it for blogpost blogs?
I have added the blogspot solution to the main post.
Great idea! Way easier than coding a whole new plug in just for EntreCard. But imagine the traffic you could attract by doing just that.
I dont know much about coding unfortunately, though managed to learn enough php to understand all the templates in Wordpress
This is a great widget. I bet it encourages even more people to drop their cards.
If I had the free time I would write the plug in. But right now I am concentrating on writing a plug in that is similar to adsense deluxe, but has additional features for optimizing ad placement and such.
@Ben
I am using Shylock Adsense and it works so easily, no templates to modify, to custom code to add to posts, you should check it out, might give you some ideas
I am integrating some of Shylocks features such as the time modification of the ad. Along with better ad placement features, as well as the ability to change the placement with a time preset.
I am not ready to release a full feature list as of yet. But if you want to sign up to be one of the first beta testers you can sign up at my post here.
I expect to be able to release the beta version of the plug in next week sometime.
Nifty widget work around, thanks a lot!
thanks man,
already put in my blog
lankapo.com
This is so cool, I am definitely going to use this widget! Thanks!
Nice article! I’m going to add this to my blog now
OH!!! You are so smart - I added it to my htt://hugosays.blogspot.com and it worked so easily! Great directions - I wish more ‘techies’ could write this clearly. Now I feel confident to try to add it to WP
Thanks so much for letting me know.
Nice article, that’s a very useful tool and is sure to help you out with EntreCard.
This is really cool! I’m gonna do this later. Thanks for sharing.
WoW, my first plugin kinda post and so many comments, I’m loving this
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Wow. Great article.