Shelfari book widget
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Can anyone tell me how to add the Shelfari book widget to my sidebar?
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Until we can see the code it uses we cannot give a “yes” or “no” answer. So can you provide a link to the widget?
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My understanding it is a widget generated with flash and would not make it past the security filters here at wordpress.com, so I don’t think it can be done.
Trent
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It is a widget to show books in your sidebar with photos and such, but is generated with flash. Their site makes no mention of one for wordpress.com blogs or simple HTML, but maybe if you request it from them, they might even think about it.
Trent
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ooOoooh. -excites- It would be ace to have something like that because right now, I just have a simple page for book reviews.
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Yes, it does use Flash. Here the code I was given <div id=”shelfariFlashcontent”>This plugin requires Adobe Flash 9.</div><script src=”http://sws.shelfari.com/flash=shelf.swf,username=astevens,width=325,height=465,shelftype=user,booksize=large,alpha=0,bgcolor=FFFFFF/flashwidget.js” type=”text/javascript” language=”javascript”></script>
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@ weirdscience
There is also a “librarything” widget that has been requested https://en.forums.wordpress.com/search.php?q=librarythingBoth are javascript and/or flash and that’s why we can’t use them at this time.
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This is another option for the code <embed width=”325″ height=”465″ src=”http://sws.shelfari.com/shelf.swf” wmode=”transparent”FlashVars=”UserName=astevens
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All Flash and embeds are stripped out here at WordPress.com for security reasons. Because we share the guts of our blogs, a vulnerability introduced by one blogger would effect all people using the same template. That’s a big risk, so staff has to tighten things up and that’s why we can’t have these files, which are risky.
If they have an HTML only version of the widget, we could use that. You might email them and request it, because then all WP.com blogs could use it.
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I sent a request to Shelfari for an HTML only version of the widget on their feedback page, so hopefully that will get us somewhere.
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With librarything it’s quite easy to put their button in a widget that links to your collection, so anyone clicking on the button can see it. I have it in my sidebar and I think the code at the site.
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I would like to throw my name into the “want a widget for shelfari” hat. Hope to see one soon.
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