Off-site “widget” code for text boxes

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  izaakmak · Member · May 27, 2009 at 4:12 pm

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  I’ve read about the limitations for what types of code can be included on my blog, but I want to explore the power of the text box. I’ve seen some sites that offer free HTML only code for that purpose, and I’m thinking that’s how some of you get those nice elements in your sidebars. To save me a lot of trouble hitting and missing (my computer is SLOW!), can anyone suggest some tried and true code sources?

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

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 27, 2009 at 4:41 pm

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  Can you point us to a sample on a blog of what you are talking about?

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  izaakmak · Member · May 27, 2009 at 4:50 pm

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  How about the “Technorati” widget on your blog, or the “RSS Feed” (?) widget on http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/, or the tons of stuff on http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/ and http://grid360.wordpress.com/?

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  izaakmak · Member · May 27, 2009 at 4:59 pm

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  Oh BTW, one of the site offering such code is http://htmlgear.lycos.com/

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 27, 2009 at 5:10 pm

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  The RSS feed widget at the bottom of the left sidebar on wpbtips, is a text widget with a standard image hyperlink

  <a href="http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/feed">
  <img src="http://wpbtips.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/28pxrssfeed.png"/>
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  All the stuff on onecoolsite is text widgets with simple HTML hyperlinks (I know because I help administer that blog). It’s the same with Grid360.

  http://support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/
  http://support.wordpress.com/links/text-widget-links/

  Put your feed in your sidebar

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 27, 2009 at 5:17 pm

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  I have no idea if any of the Lycos stuff will work here since I don’t know what they mean by “HTML.” Their stuff could well contain code that is not allowed here such as flash, or javascript, or iframes: http://support.wordpress.com/code/ .

  The technorati widget contains javascript and will not work at wordpress.COM. It is designed to work with self-hosted wordpress blogs.

  For polls and such, if you want to use them, why not go with PollDaddy which is actually owned by Automattic/wordpress and is integrated right into wordpress.COM: http://support.wordpress.com/polls/ ? No muss, no fuss.

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  izaakmak · Member · May 27, 2009 at 6:17 pm

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  Thanks. From your answer, I assume that the coding on onecoolsite and Grid360 is proprietary, and that’s ok. What I’m really looking for is samples of stuff I can try in text boxes in order to learn how to use HTML. I’ve bookmarked HTML sites for reference but it’d be nice to have projects in the works that I need the reference for. I know that none of that reading will stick unless I’m using it as I learn.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 27, 2009 at 6:26 pm

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  It isn’t proprietary, it is constructed out of standard HTML with the proper links. There are many online tutorials for HTML, and when using them and practicing, all you have to do is keep in mind the restrictions on code here at wordpress.COM. Not all HTML is allowed here and that is outlined in this support document: http://support.wordpress.com/code/ .