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My Bloglines widget
Posted on May 2nd, 2006 15 commentsI have created a simple WordPress widget to display my own Bloglines subscriptions. Feel free to download it and use it on your own blog. It has a simple configuration form so that you can set the widget title and enter your Bloglines username.
If you aren’t familiar with WordPress or Widgets, WordPress is the content management software I use to display all of our wonderful weblog posts. A widget is a kind of “plugin-within-a-plugin” that allows me to quickly customize the content of my sidebar.
Download: My Bloglines widget
Also, if anyone has any bugs and/or feedback about this widget, please send me some email at finster [at] gmail [dot] com and please include “Bloglines Widget” in the subject.
13 responses to “My Bloglines widget”
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just what i needed
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Perfect! Thank you!
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Very slick. Thanks for your hard work!
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Nice, but is there any chance that you can add a “folder” field? I use different Bloglines folders as the blogroll for three different blogs.
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Never mind, I managed to fake it out by putting “userid&folder=foldername” in the userid field. Thanks!
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I added the widget to my sidebar and dropped my email addy into the user id field and I get an error saying the user id wasn’t found. What do I put in there other than email address?
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Finster January 8th, 2007 at 11:00
Ross,
It uses the Bloglines account name. This is the username, not the email address, associated with your account. The quickest way to get this would be to go to http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs and at the top it will say “Welcome SoAndSo”. That is your Bloglines user name.
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I installed and activated this, included it as a sidebar widget, but I am not getting the opportunity to configure it any where with my username. Do I have to change permissions in the php file and edit my username into it? Looks promising, but I’m stuck . . . TIA
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Finster March 26th, 2007 at 09:08
So it’s not showing the configure button when you go to Presentation->Sidebar Widgets in the wp-admin? It should be showing the configure button just like an RSS or text widget.
Admittedly, I haven’t tested this with some of the very latest versions of WordPress, so what version are you using?
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2.1.2 — it shows the widget name, but doesn’t provide a way to configure . . . sorry for the delay in responding.
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Hi Finster — if you get it working, I’d be happy to make a modest contribution.
TIA
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This is excellent! So easy to use. I have been looking for one of these for a while.
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How can I limit the feeds shown to a particular folder?
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philk May 5th, 2006 at 05:23