Widgets that (100%) work with wordpress.com
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Please let me know what widgets you have successfully installed on your wordpress.com blog.(apart from the ones available from wordpress.com itself). So far the only interesting one I have installed is Clustr Maps http://www.clustrmaps.com/
Thanks
Karl
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Avoid widget over kill
Too many widgets on a page will kill a blog’s design and turn off visitors. How should you gauge whether or not you have too many widgets on your blog? Check other blogs and see what kind of an impact widgets have on your experience as a reader. Widgets don’t only spoil the design they also compromise blog speed (page loding time), in short viewers may have to wait for widgets to load before they can interact with your blog. This may seem like common sense to veteran bloggers but to new bloggers the lure of adding widgets may be too overwhelming to pass up.Consider that reader’s come to our blogs to read our content and widgets draw the eyes and the mind away from dwelling on the content in our posts. The test for whether or not to add a widget or any sidebar link to your blog is whether or not it provides additional resources to the reader and thereby enhances the readers’ experience.
Why having a well designed blog is important http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2008/11/02/why-having-a-well-designed-blog-is-important/
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@karlbeech
Your question, as well as, other questions I have received along the same line prompted me to write and publish this post. I believe you will gain lots of information from reading it and the comments that were posted to it as well. http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/widgets-less-is-more/ -
I the whos.amung.us widget, it lets you and everyone else know how many people are currently on your blog. But TT is right, widget overkill is not good, I think I did widget overkill, but I’m not willing to change it, I’m addicted to widgets now so quit while your ahead :(
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Thank you for the comments. I agree with the comments about ‘widget overkill’. I am really interested in adding what I consider to be the most appropriate widgets content/designwise.
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@karlbeech
If you can give us an idea of what functionality you are looking for ie. what purpose you want to use a widget to serve we may be able to come up with suggestions very quickly. -
I am looking for Widgets that provide News in Business and Science. Any Ideas? I tried adding widgets from yahoo and bloomberg and others, but all didn’t work, I realized it was because they contained javascript.
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There’s a thread in this forum called Codes for WordPress that has about a hundred different widgets to choose from.
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I do not think any of you are actually answering the question. Karl wants to know which widgets work.
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I don’t know about anybody else, but I certainly don’t have the time to go out and test every widget in the known universe to determine if it will work here at wordpress.COM with all the restrictions on what code can and cannot be used here, just to provide a list that will be out of date long before I could publish it.
Here is a clue: If in the widget code you see any of the following, there is a 100% chance it will NOT work here at wordpress.COM.
script
javascript
flash
iframe
formIf it contains none of the above, roll the dice and paste the code into a text widget and save the changes. If it doesn’t work, or the code gets stripped out of the widget, then that means it is not compatible here.
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