Widgets for books

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  sldanielsonauthor · Member · Jul 13, 2018 at 2:09 pm

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  Hello! I have widgets for my books on Smashwords and Amazon, but cannot add them here. At what ‘level’ do I need to be to add them?

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  torres126 · Member · Jul 13, 2018 at 7:01 pm

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  Hi there,

  What is the initial tag of the widget? Please be aware that only some code is supported on WordPress.com: https://en.support.wordpress.com/code/#html-tags

  Only sites with the Business Plan can use code not on the list of accepted tags.

  However, you can use Amazon Affiliate Links on WordPress.com with any plan, if this is what you are trying to do: https://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-amazon-com-affiliate-links-to-your-wordpress-com-site/

  Lastly, if you inform us of your main aim, we may be able to offer some alternatives which can be done on all plans.

  Best of luck! :)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 14, 2018 at 12:14 am

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  Can you paste the code here in the forums, between code tags so that we can look at it.

  Press the code button at the top of the reply box, paste in the code and then click the code tag again.

  Do that for each individually.

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  sldanielsonauthor · Member · Jul 15, 2018 at 2:22 pm

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  Sure thing! I know Amazon I can’t use the full code, just the image or the text…but Smashwords I was hoping to use the full widget.
  My goal? To sell my books of course! I’d like to put in my affiliate widget/link thing (sorry, not a tech person) for folks to click on and sell a copy or 2.

  Here is Amazon (the full thing)

  //ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ac&ref=tf_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=sldanielson-20&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=B003UV98JA&asins=B003UV98JA&linkId=10329236255e143b95d50ad7a5d8bfff&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true&price_color=333333&title_color=0066c0&bg_color=ffffff

  Here is Smashwords (same book) for the whole thing:

  //www.smashwidgets.com/1/widgets.js

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  gemmacevans · Member · Jul 15, 2018 at 4:31 pm

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  Hi sldanielsonauthor,

  It looks like some of the code was removed when it was pasted in to your reply. Please paste the code in code tags (there is a button on this form) or make a screenshot and upload it to your Media Library so I can take a look.

  The Smashwords widget you linked to contains Javascript, which isn’t supported on the Premium plan or below for security reasons — this code will be stripped out automatically.

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  sldanielsonauthor · Member · Jul 16, 2018 at 1:50 pm

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  I took a screenshot of each :)

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  gemmacevans · Member · Jul 16, 2018 at 2:23 pm

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  Thanks for the screenshots. The Smashwords code contains Javascript and Amazon’s code is an iframe, neither of which are supported on the Premium plan or below:

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  Therefore it won’t be possible to insert this code on your current plan.