world clock

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  severson · Member · Oct 17, 2008 at 8:20 pm

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  I have been attempting to include a world clock widget and have not had success. I found a site that TEXT widgets should support, but nothing will ever post up. Here’s the site: http://www.worldtimeserver.com/clocks/wtsclock001.aspx#bloghints

  Any suggestions on what to do or another site or widget that is better for a similar world clock?

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  rosclarke · Member · Oct 17, 2008 at 8:22 pm

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  Please can you (a) give us a link to your wordpress.com blog and (b) give us the code for the widget that you are trying to use. You’ll need to put the code between backticks as it says below the comment box.

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  severson · Member · Oct 17, 2008 at 9:01 pm

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  ( )<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td align="center"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.worldtimeserver.com/clocks/embed.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">objET=new Object;objET.wtsclock="wtsclock001.swf";objET.color="800000";objET.wtsid="ET";objET.width=100;objET.height=100;objET.wmode="transparent";showClock(objET);</script></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><h2>Addis Ababa</h2></td></tr></table>( )

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  rosclarke · Member · Oct 17, 2008 at 9:04 pm

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  That code won’t work here because it includes javascript which is automatically stripped out by wordpress.com. Sorry.

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  severson · Member · Oct 17, 2008 at 9:22 pm

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  Thanks for your help!

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  severson · Member · Oct 17, 2008 at 9:22 pm

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  Is it just me, or are a lot of widgets more usable on TypePad and Blogger than WordPress?

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  rosclarke · Member · Oct 17, 2008 at 9:27 pm

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  Yes. A lot of widgets use flash or javascript, neither of which are suitable for wordpress.com. Many widgets have a ‘wordpress’ version, but these are almost invariably designed for wordpress.org self-hosted blogs.