embedding a booklist

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  fieldteenlibrarian · Member · Jan 20, 2010 at 4:24 pm

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  I am trying to imbed a booklist that I made on the site http://www.22books.com/ into a wordpress.com blog post. 22Books offers an embed code for the list, but when I try to add it to my blog post nothing shows up. I have tried in both HTML and Visual modes.

  The embed code looks like this <div id=”booksdiv” /><script id=”bscript” src=”http://www.22books.com/share/blogit/1203/1/1″ defer=”defer” ></script>

  Can anyone make a suggestion?

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

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jan 20, 2010 at 4:44 pm

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  It seems you are trying to use forbidden code. At wordpress.com we can’t use script (among other things), so wordpress strips it out:

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  fieldteenlibrarian · Member · Jan 20, 2010 at 5:05 pm

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  Ooh, this is disappointing. Thank you for pointing that out. Takes a little bit of the fun out of it though.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 20, 2010 at 5:10 pm

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  Have you looked at Shelfari?

  Shelfari is completely free. Does it work on my blog / web site?
  The Shelfari widget works on most blogs and social networks, including Blogger, LiveJournal, MySpace, Typepad, Xanga, Vox, WordPress.com and more. It also works on Facebook. To create a widget enter your site URL in the text box on the right side and press the Get Started button.
  http://www.shelfari.com/Widget

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  fieldteenlibrarian · Member · Jan 20, 2010 at 5:14 pm

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  I have! And I have a Shelfari account that I am not using, so this is a great suggestion (and one I will probably use if I can get it to post an individual shelf at a time). Is there somewhere that has a list of what sites wordpress allows? or do I have to do it in the other direction (checking if an individual site works with wordpress)?

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  timethief · Member · Jan 20, 2010 at 5:15 pm

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  Also note that although you cannot use the 22 books widget you can still post a 22 books image and link to the site or to the specific list pages there.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 20, 2010 at 5:16 pm

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  See Tess’s comment with the support documentation link above please. It contains what we cannot use. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/embedding-a-booklist?replies=6#post-423752

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  fieldteenlibrarian · Member · Jan 21, 2010 at 8:09 pm

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  So, despite what they say initially, Shelfari’s widget only works on wordpress.org.
  I cannot find a single way to keep a collection of booklists and post them on my blog.
  So much for that.

  I know this is a free site, and I understand why wordpress would decide to limit script, but this is pretty limiting when you consider other free sites that would allow this.