Adding an Esty widget to sidebar?
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Hi,
Just tried adding the Etsy widget that displays your favorites or your own shop items. It’s a javascript thing or flash. Does WordPress support this in the sidebar? When I saved changes, it changed the code and did not work. I tested the code in a Blogger Classic blog, and it worked.Thanks!
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WordPress.com blogs are non-commercial blogs. And Blogger is the home of most spammers and sploggers. Here we are allowed only one single affiliate link either in our sidebar or on our About page. http://faq.wordpress.com/2005/12/08/adsense/
“if the primary purpose of the blog is to drive traffic to affiliate programs that’s not allowed” Both wordpress policy the Terms of Service make this clear: We are not allowed to use our blogs to drive traffic to third party commercial sites. http://wordpress.com/tos/The widget you are asking for is a commercial widget for a crafts store. It’s purpose is to drive business to Esty-Mini Stores. There are other threads in the forum searchbox on this same topic. The code you are using is being stripped by wordpress software forms, javascript, iframes and embeds are stripped to ensure security.
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Thanks, timethief. I have clearly under-read the FAQs, and did not realize that such restrictions apply. When I think of spammy blogs, I of course think of blogs littered with google ads everywhere, and not my own that provides helpful information. I am 100% in favor of helping other people, which is why I have no problem promoting a craft store that promotes the people that have stores within that site. Didn’t realize that ethics were so prevelent by a provider of a blog software. Why would one even care about statistics for each post, if one did not want traffic. Seems like the desire for traffic is then self-gratifying, which is fine, but still a reason that not all honest, non-spammy bloggers would subscribe to as their first priority. Wow. I have more to learn about WordPress before I convert over. Thanks again for the explinations.
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https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=9620
You’re welcome and please be mindful that wordpress does offer another alternative for those who want to monetize blogs. They can hire a web host and download a free blog template from http://wordpress.org. Then they can also edit their themes which we cannot do on this multi-user blogging platform.Below is the true cost of self-hosting and monetizing your free blog template from wordpress.org:
(1) When you host your own blog it will no longer be entitled to be “featured” amidst the rest of the wp.com blogs because wordpress.com will no longer be hosting it.
(2) That means the benefits of having your blog posts appear in the WordPress.com Category tag pages and being considered and promoted among WordPress.com Top Posts, Top Blog or Growing Blogs will apply not to your blog because wordpress.com will no longer be hosting it.
(3) Consequently, our blog will lose the traffic that is generated by having a blog hosted by wordpress.com.
A huge problem with blogger.com (especially the hosted for free domains on blogspot.com) is the vast number of pure spam blogs that use the service. If you want people to take your blog seriously you need to place a certain amount of distance between yourself and the spammers or this open and well known abuse could hinder your rise to fame.
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Thanks again, timethief. By your reference in #3 regarding losing traffic generated by having a blog hosted by wordpress.com, do you mean that wordpress.com blogs are part of a giant collective blog? That traffic generated to each blog helps the the traffic to others? From a search engine, and a user standpoint, I don’t see how this would be so, but if that’s what you’re saying, that is quite interesting.
I have been blogging for about two years now, just a babe in the developing world of bloggers, and was not aware that blogs hosted with blogger were associated as, or stereotyped as, spammer blogs. I know and follow a few Blogger blogs that are quite genuine. I do know a developer for Blogger, and while his main job was constantly fighting spam on many levels, I still had not pegged Blogger as the spam generator. I see why you would say it, but I’ve never heard of it affecting a blog’s reputation. If anything, having a “.blogger” or a “.wordpress” in an address screams amateur, in that it’s not on its own hosting enviornment. Having said that, though, there are many popular blogs that do still have these names in them. So it seems to not make a difference.
What I had pegged Blogger for was ugly templates. I was considering the move to WordPress because 1. the technology is so fun and surprising, although Blogger is catching up fast and 2. the templates were so darn clean. To be honest, it has been a bit bumpy in changing the design of the template, and I’ve gone back to a Blogger blog I have to experiment further with my control over the template, and have just dug into the code and switched out graphics to change the look of the entire thing, as if I had paid a programmer to develop a custom template for me.
I certainly will continue to consider hosting a blog in the paid version, but am leaning now away from WP, sad to say, as I feel that this must be a real community, which is great, but I feel that it affects my speech, especially if I am developing a friendly IT-helper type blog (as you so helpfully have done), but if I say something negative about WP, that might not bode well. Also, I really like technical freedoms. Nevertheless, I will continue experimenting in both to better understand them. :)
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Referring to 3 above. At wordpress.com we assign categories to our posts and these are used to list them on the tag pages. WordPress.com has a ranking of 8 and here’s an example of one category/tag http://wordpress.com/tag/IT/ by just changing the last word you can view another category/tag page.
Actually if you search the web you will find a recent report on Blogger that indicates figures of about 75% spammers. http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/012778.html
http://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/give-your-blogspot-blog-some-credibility.htmlIf you choose to purchase a wordpress.com upgrade via domain mapping then the “wordpress.com” will not be reflected in your url http://faq.wordpress.com/tag/domain-mapping/
If you choose to purchase the wordpress.com upgrade for css customiztion you can edit the css for your theme but not the underlying code in the template.
CSS customization can be used to improve on any existing theme; you can define your own classes for use in posts; you can select the Sandbox theme and build on one of the Minimalist layouts or, opt for no stylesheet and do it all yourself. If you feel you are up to the challenge of customizing a theme then these link, link, link will be helpful. There are also css resources that you can access listed in the FAQs blog.The upgrade is not recommended to bloggers who do not have css customization experience. Although there is a forum and other bloggers may volunteer to help you if needs be, there is no staff support provided for learning css customization.
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Got it. All categories are pooled together. Guess that was obvious from the home page.
I did pay the $15 to upgrade my template in order to custom design the CSS. That was quite nice. I am not a programmer, so I work backwards with what I have. In a blogger blog I was just working on, there were many elements I could work with and change, vs going blind in the WordPress, which is totally fine and understandable. I would not attempt CSS on my own, yet. :)
Great to know about the domain mapping. Didn’t think that was an option, so didn’t think to look for it. I have a lot to research about WP.
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Depneding on the theme either immediately under the title of your blog post or at the end of it the Categories you assign to the post go to the wordpress.com tag pages I showed you above. However, when your blog visitors click on the Categories in your sidebar they will be shown only the posts on your own blog assigned to the given Category.
There are some resources that may be of help to you.
http://lorelle.wordpress.com
http://engtech.wordpress.com/tools/wordpress/
And if you click my username you will find it’s attached to a wordpress.com beginner’s resources blog.
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