Adding blogtopsites and other widgets

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  faatih · Member · Dec 14, 2008 at 12:45 am

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  I’m new to wordpress.

  I’d like to install blogtopsites and a clustr map to my blog, on the right hand side.

  I have tried doing this by myself and have just got stuck.

  Can anyone provide an easy to follow step-by-step guide on how I can do this.

  I’ve registered with both blogtopsites and clustr and have the blogtopsites code.

  I won’t paste it out in full but it looks like this: <img style=”border:none” src=”http://www.blogtopsites.com/v_1234.gif” alt=”category Blogs – Blog Top Sites” />

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 14, 2008 at 1:54 am

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  Without looking at the code in full or hearing more details about the problems you’re running into, it’s hard to help you. Clustr maps do work here. Blogtopsites, I have no idea. Please paste the code here between backticks, those little marks like ` so we can see it.

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  faatih · Member · Dec 14, 2008 at 4:05 am

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  They sent me an email:

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  Hello, To appear on BlogTopSites.com, you *must* add the HTML we gave you to your site. The code you must add is: <!–Start BlogTopSites.com Code–><img style=”border:none” src=”http://www.blogtopsites.com/v_6337.gif” alt=”Religion Blogs – Blog Top Sites” />

  End of Quote.

  I don’t know where and how I put this code.

  I guessed..so I went to my dashboard, went to “Links”, created a name “Blogtopsites” and were it said url I put the html code above.

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 14, 2008 at 4:10 am

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  That will never work. What they’ve given you is an image code. You’ve tried to place it where URLs go. It’s impossible to tell if the code will work, as you didn’t put it between backticks and the forum will just strip out parts of the code if you don’t.

  Put it in a text widget in your sidebar. Instructions here:
  http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/18/put-an-image-in-your-sidebar/

  How can I post buttons and images links in my sidebar?

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  faatih · Member · Dec 14, 2008 at 5:23 am

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  I tried to follow the two links you gave me but it was difficult.

  I wrote a new post where I downloaded http://www.blogtopsites.com/v_6337.gif through the download images option/URL

  I went to appearance (design is no longer there) and then widgets, but the “add text” option isn’t there.

  Could you give me a simple numbered step by step procedure please?