Shelfari book widget

musingsfromtheacademy · Member · Jul 11, 2007 at 7:20 pm
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Can anyone tell me how to add the Shelfari book widget to my sidebar?
timethief · Member · Jul 11, 2007 at 7:23 pm
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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?
trent · Member · Jul 11, 2007 at 7:23 pm
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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.

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weirdscience · Member · Jul 11, 2007 at 7:40 pm
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What is this widget? I saw the word ‘book’ and got excited. :p
trent · Member · Jul 11, 2007 at 7:42 pm
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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.

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weirdscience · Member · Jul 11, 2007 at 8:11 pm
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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.
musingsfromtheacademy · Member · Jul 11, 2007 at 8:14 pm
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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>
timethief · Member · Jul 11, 2007 at 8:16 pm
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@ weirdscience
There is also a “librarything” widget that has been requested https://en.forums.wordpress.com/search.php?q=librarything

Both are javascript and/or flash and that’s why we can’t use them at this time.
musingsfromtheacademy · Member · Jul 11, 2007 at 8:16 pm
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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
trent · Member · Jul 11, 2007 at 8:18 pm
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I am afraid that ’embeds’ are also stripped out. Afraid not….

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raincoaster · Member · Jul 11, 2007 at 8:18 pm
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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.
aprilredmon · Member · Aug 24, 2007 at 5:15 am
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I would LOVE a Shelfari widget!!!
raincoaster · Member · Aug 24, 2007 at 5:34 am
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Tell it to staff. The forums are not the best way to communicate with them.
ladycunegonde · Member · Aug 24, 2007 at 6:16 am
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I would love one of these too.
skotnicki · Member · Aug 27, 2007 at 3:33 pm
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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.
weeza · Member · Aug 30, 2007 at 6:43 am
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I too would LOVE this….I’ll have to write them as well
raincoaster · Member · Aug 30, 2007 at 6:58 am
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Tell it to staff. The forums are not the best way to communicate with them.
weeza · Member · Aug 30, 2007 at 7:17 am
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I am brand new today, my apologies. I’ll ask the staff
ellaella · Member · Sep 1, 2007 at 3:49 pm
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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.
jhcckkm · Member · Jan 4, 2008 at 7:00 pm
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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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