Adding Pinterest Widget to Penscratch 2 Blog

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  claudiafaithscorner · Member · Dec 5, 2017 at 8:59 pm

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  I’ve been trying to add a Pinterest widget to my blog using the Pinterest Widget Builder here:

  https://developers.pinterest.com/tools/widget-builder/?type=profile&boardHeight=280&boardWidth=400&imageWidth=300&template=custom&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fhellagoodhairr%2F

  I have used the method here:

  http://www.twelveskip.com/tutorials/wordpress/1319/add-pinterest-to-wordpress-sidebar

  but it won’t show up. Any ideas on how to fix this?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-frank · Staff · Dec 5, 2017 at 9:49 pm

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  Hi there,

  You may want to try the following workaround provided by @ponderingpossibly:

  1. go to your Pinterest profile/boards
  2. In the search bar it will say something like uk.pinterest.com/yourusername or pinterest.com/yourusername
  3. write ‘feed.rss’ after your link so pinterest.com/yourusername/feed.rss/
  4. go to WordPress ‘customizer’ and click ‘widgets’
  5. Select the ‘Flickr’ widget
  6. For the link field, copy and paste the pinterest.com/yourusername/feed.rss into that
  7. Ta Da!
  To find out more:
  http://gretchenlouise.com/how-to-display-your-latest-pinterest-pins-in-a-wordpress-com-widget/

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/pinterest-widget-17?replies=2

  Hope this works for you.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 6, 2017 at 9:11 am

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  @claudiafaithscorner, let us know if that works for you.

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  claudiafaithscorner · Member · Dec 6, 2017 at 5:11 pm

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  Thank you! I tried this, but my Pinterest feed isn’t recognized by the widget & all I get is Flickr’s interesting photos where my feed should be.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Dec 6, 2017 at 11:02 pm

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  claudiafaithscorner – hmm, I don’t see an RSS widget in any of your theme’s widget areas. (I don’t see anything about using a Flickr widget in either of the guides, but I might be missing it!)

  Could you please try adding an RSS widget instead of the Flickr one, using the technique here?

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  claudiafaithscorner · Member · Dec 8, 2017 at 5:12 am

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  I added an RSS widget instead of the Flickr widget. No luck, I’m getting a message that the feed is down. I’ve left it up on my blog, under the Flickr widget.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Dec 8, 2017 at 3:51 pm

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  The URL you used for your Pinterest feed isn’t quite right:

  https://www.pinterest.com/hellagoodhairr/feed.rrs/

  Try this instead:

  https://www.pinterest.ca/hellagoodhairr/feed.rss/

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  claudiafaithscorner · Member · Dec 9, 2017 at 10:16 pm

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  Thanks! I changed it, & while it appears my account is now linked the images aren’t showning up. I’m sure it’s just because I have some setting wrong, but I don’t know what. I’ll try playing around with it.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Dec 10, 2017 at 11:30 pm

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  Thanks for giving that a try. Unfortunately neither the Flickr nor the RSS widget hacks for Pinterest are something we support officially.

  The only methods I’ve seen that work are listed here:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/embed-from-pinterest/

  I just tested adding your profile URL https://www.pinterest.com/hellagoodhairr/ to a text widget and it seemed to display fine, so you might want to try that if you haven’t already.

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  claudiafaithscorner · Member · Dec 11, 2017 at 9:29 pm

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  Turns out the text widget worked! Thank you!

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Dec 12, 2017 at 10:19 am

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  Glad to hear it!