http://wordpress.tv Engage Yourself with WordPress.tv Mon, 28 May 2012 12:29:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://wordpress.tv http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-top-rated-widget-for-wordpress-com/ http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-top-rated-widget-for-wordpress-com/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:30:45 +0000 Michael Pick http://wordpress.tv/?p=2264 PollDaddy ratings system baked into your WordPress.com account - displaying your highest rated posts, comments, and/or pages in the sidebar of your blog. If you'd like to read more about the Top Ratings widget, check out the WordPress.com support page]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-top-rated-widget-for-wordpress-com/feed/ 0 Michael Pick g The Top Rated Widget The Top Rated widget shows the results of your PollDaddy ratings that you have on your posts, pages, and comments. And you can select which of those you'd like to show. You can customize the title, and how many items you'd like to display. And then, when people go to your blog, they can see which things have been rated highest. They can then click through to those posts, or filter them down by posts, pages, comments, or even by time period just underneath. http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-vodpod-widget-for-wordpress-com/ http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-vodpod-widget-for-wordpress-com/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:30:45 +0000 Michael Pick http://wordpress.tv/?p=2267 VodPod video widget for WordPress.com makes it easy to add a customized sidebar display of your latest collected videos in the sidebar of your blog. You can read more about the widget in this WordPress.com support article.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-vodpod-widget-for-wordpress-com/feed/ 12 Michael Pick g The VodPod Videos Widget The VodPod Videos widget integrates with the VodPod.com service to allow you to show a playlist of videos right in the sidebar of your blog. If you haven't signed up already, you'll need to click through and sign up for a VodPod account, which takes just a couple of seconds, and then get your widget code. So click through to sign up, which is really, really simple and will only take you a couple of seconds, and once you're done, you can click to get your widget code. Now, the widget over on the right-hand side is a preview, and all you're going to do is generate some code, which is this section here. And you do that just by choosing different selections, such as the size and the color, and how you want your videos to be sequenced. You can also add a different title to the widget, if you want to, give it a custom title, which will appear right up at the top of the widget. Once you're happy with that, select "WordPress.com" from the top up here, and you'll see a little bit of code that you just need to copy to your clipboard, and then bring that back over into WordPress and paste it in this box here. You can also enable the widescreen player, and there's some more information about that, click on Save, and there you are: your videos are now brought into the sidebar of your blog very elegantly. And if someone clicks through, they can actually get the widget from the blog to share it, or watch the video right there from within your blog. And if they prefer to browse your full collection, that's also possible. They can click through down in the bottom, and that will open up your VodPod account. From here, you can also see your own view stats. So that's the VodPod widget. http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-top-posts-widget-for-wordpress-com/ http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-top-posts-widget-for-wordpress-com/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:30:44 +0000 Michael Pick http://wordpress.tv/?p=2269 the WordPress.com support article.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-top-posts-widget-for-wordpress-com/feed/ 3 Michael Pick g The Top Posts Widget The Top Posts widget displays your most popular posts in the sidebar of your blog. You can give it a title, and decide how many posts you'd like to show, and then once you've saved, your most popular posts will appear in your sidebar for people to check out. http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-top-clicks-widget-for-wordpress-com/ http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-top-clicks-widget-for-wordpress-com/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:30:43 +0000 Michael Pick http://wordpress.tv/?p=2271 WordPress.com support article]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-top-clicks-widget-for-wordpress-com/feed/ 0 Michael Pick g The Top Clicks Widget The Top Clicks widget is a simple way to show where people go to when they leave your blog. Of course, you can customize the title, and also how many links you'd like to show, which you can select from the drop-down. Bear in mind that it takes a while for this to take place: anywhere from 48 to 72 hours. You can also select how many characters will be displayed of that link, and choose from anywhere from 1 upwards of the different links to show. With this being a new blog, there are no top clicks, but they will appear here once there are some. http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-text-widget-for-wordpress/ http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-text-widget-for-wordpress/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:30:42 +0000 Michael Pick http://wordpress.tv/?p=2273 WordPress.com support page, or check out W3Schools excellent HTML tutorials to get your started.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-text-widget-for-wordpress/feed/ 9 Michael Pick g The Text Widget The Text widget's pretty versatile, because not only does it allow you to enter a kind of a section of text— for anything you like—with a title, and then a main section underneath that, but it also allows you to add HTML, which in turn means that you can add links, you can add HTML formatting, and you can even add images. To do that, you'll need to use some basic HTML code, which look a bit like this: here I'm creating a link for an item using HTML. Now, if that worries you or you think, "I don't know HTML at all," I'm going to now show you a quick resource that will help you out with copy and paste examples to get this done really quickly. So as you'll see, with this line here, I've just created a link to my other blog, and if I wanted to create an image, I would use something like this, followed by the web location of the image. So, if you want to find out a lot more about this, because it's more than we can cover in this short tutorial, you're going to want to head to http://w3schools.com, where you'll find lots of examples and resources to get you started. http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-tag-cloud-widget-for-wordpress-com/ http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-tag-cloud-widget-for-wordpress-com/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:30:41 +0000 Michael Pick http://wordpress.tv/?p=2275 WordPress.com support entry.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-tag-cloud-widget-for-wordpress-com/feed/ 2 Michael Pick g The Tag Cloud Widget The Tag Cloud widget gives your users another way of navigating your content by displaying your list of tags in a visually appealing way. Give it a title, and then save. And you'll now see that all of your tags are here, with the most commonly-used ones larger and the least-commonly used ones smaller. This gives a visual indicator as to what you write about most. http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-socialvibe-widget-for-wordpress-com/ http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-socialvibe-widget-for-wordpress-com/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:30:40 +0000 Michael Pick http://wordpress.tv/?p=2277 WordPress.com support page.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-socialvibe-widget-for-wordpress-com/feed/ 0 Michael Pick g The Social Vibe Widget for WordPress.com http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-search-widget-for-wordpress/ http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-search-widget-for-wordpress/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:30:40 +0000 Michael Pick http://wordpress.tv/?p=2279 ]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-search-widget-for-wordpress/feed/ 0 Michael Pick g The Search Widget Giving your readers as many options as possible to find your content is always a good idea. And the Search widget allows you to put a little search box in the sidebar of your blog. Simply give it a title and save it, and they can then run a search for something they're interested in. When they've run the search, they'll see all results listed and can then click through to the post of their choice. http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-rss-widget-for-wordpress-com/ http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-rss-widget-for-wordpress-com/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:30:39 +0000 Michael Pick http://wordpress.tv/?p=2281 our WordPress.com support video.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-rss-widget-for-wordpress-com/feed/ 7 Michael Pick g The RSS Widget The RSS widget lets you display any RSS feed in the sidebar of your blog. You'll need to put a feed URL in here, so let's have a look and find one. Usually, it's got a little orange box with "RSS" or "subscribe" written next to it. Here I can find one for Matt on WP, so I right-click and I'm going to copy the link location. This is Matt's food blog. So I paste that one in, give the feed a title, then I can decide how many items I'd like to appear in my sidebar. I'm going to go for 5, decide if I'd like a content excerpt to appear, the author's name to appear (if available), or the content's date. I'm going to just go with the date for this one. So now you can see Matt's five latest entries to his food blog, and I'm just going to have a quick scroll down and see which one looks most appealing. I'm going to go for this last one, so I click through and that takes me right to the post. http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-recent-posts-widget-for-wordpress-com/ http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-recent-posts-widget-for-wordpress-com/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:30:39 +0000 Michael Pick http://wordpress.tv/?p=2283 WordPress.com support page.]]>

]]> http://wordpress.tv/2009/08/03/the-recent-posts-widget-for-wordpress-com/feed/ 8 Michael Pick g The Recent Posts Widget The Recent Posts widget is a quick way of giving people an at-a-glance view of what you've written recently. So give it a title, and decide how many posts— anywhere from 1 to 15—that you'd like to show in the sidebar. Click on Save, And that will now appear with your most recent post titles which people can then click through to and find your freshest content.