Acceptable Widgets

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  sagerave · Member · Aug 7, 2007 at 7:50 pm

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  Where can I find widgets that will work on my wordpress blog?

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  abbydonkrafts · Member · Aug 7, 2007 at 7:58 pm

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  If you are using wordpress.com, you can only use the widgets found under Presentation -> Widgets. If you are using a hosted version of WordPress, go ask over at http://www.wordpress.org

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  sagerave · Member · Aug 7, 2007 at 8:02 pm

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  Actually, I meant the things to go in the text widget blocks, code. I have managed to get a couple of things to work but haven’t bee able to get things from widgetbox to work…those sorts of things.

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  abbydonkrafts · Member · Aug 7, 2007 at 8:18 pm

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  That’s because they are Flash and Javascript. Neither technology is allowed due to security reasons. So, the only thing you can use is standard HTML, such as images. Dynamic images are what most people use here. Most flashy stuff is out. If you like blog “bling”, you have to go with a self-hosted version or BlogSpot.

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 7, 2007 at 8:23 pm

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  Check out this thread:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=13356&page&replies=81

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  firstwatch · Member · Aug 10, 2007 at 4:52 pm

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  WordPress is for retards…
  It’s the Apple of blogging.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 10, 2007 at 4:56 pm

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  Where can I find widgets that will work on my wordpress blog?

  @firstwatch
  Gee, thanks for your retarded outburst in response to the original poster’s question {sarcasm}. Luckily you’ve only been here a week so you won’t have much in the way of content to export when migrating to your next web host.

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  firstwatch · Member · Aug 10, 2007 at 5:11 pm

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  timethief:

  I, like the original poster, wanted to put a widget – a non-Wordpress widget – into my sidebar and have been unable to.
  The only reason I opened a WordPress blog to begin with was because I liked the layout of the templates better than Blogger, but it has been maddening trying to do ANYTHING with it.
  If Blogger were a pair of scissors, WordPress would be the clumsy dull plastic safety scissors that couldn’t cut through the thinnest stock of paper. It’s slick, shiny and looks pretty cool, but you really can’t do a damn thing with it.
  Which is good, I guess, so the simple folk don’t go and hurt themselves…

  “Oh you’ve only been a member FOR A WEEK blah blah blah.”
  That was an insult?
  Okay.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 10, 2007 at 5:35 pm

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  @firstwatch
  The “Please read me first before posting” sticky post at the head of this forum clearly lays out the differences between wordpress.com hosted blogs on this wp-MU multi-user blogging platform and wordpress.org software. It describes the differences between policies and services as well. Apparently, you forgot to read it.

  Well, when you do read it you will find that you can have everything you want by making the choice to have a wordpress.org blog. Hence there’s no need for you to remain here inappropriately sharing your unhappiness.

  The good news is that you can make the happiness choice by hiring a web host and downloading free wordpress.org software. Then you can have all the third party widgets you want and you can hack your wordpress.org template to your heart’s content too, without compromising any security other than that applicable to your own blog.