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Feed Links Widget
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As promised, here is the revised version of my Feed Links Widget. Just click the button and follow the wizard!
Some Notes
Due to circumstances beyond my control, if Blogger changes the URL format for feeds this hack will break (and I will, of course, speed to fix it
).If you want to make it easier for others to add this hack, clicking the button below will add the button above to your sidebar.
© 2006-2008 Stephen Paul Weber. Some Rights Reserved.
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Google AJAX
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Google AJAX is an interface for Google search that allows you to get the search results AJAX-style. This can be really handy when doing a series of quick searches. Better yet, however, is the widget that comes with it. Simply cut-and-paste the given code into your blog sidebar and you have inline Google search power — the results are displayed right in your sidebar! You can also (optionally) specify a URL to restrict the search to, thus creating a widget to do an AJAX-style search on your own site using the power of Google right from your sidebar! You can see an example of this in my own sidebar. The script is built using the power of YubNub.
© 2006-2008 Stephen Paul Weber. Some Rights Reserved.
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Include Feeds / Reading Lists in Your Sidebar
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Including headlines in your sidebar is an old concept, one that can be very useful to both you and your readers. This post will by no means be a comprehensive list of methods, but I will outline what I feel are the 'top 4' ways to do this.
Peek-a-boo Headlines
Peek-a-boo headlines are a part of my version of FreshTags and may be coming to primary FreshTags eventually as well. I may soon be releasing a version of the hack that works well without a FreshTags installation. I really like this method because my blogroll still sends out link-love and for FreshTags users you get context-sensitive headlines.FeedDigest
FeedDigest is an old friend of mine. The first-ever feed-to-script service I used was RSSDigest, the forerunner to FeedDigest. The service provides excellent features, including the ability to mix feeds together into a single digest, include scripts for JavaScript or PHP, and an RSS mashup feed of your digest. You get 100% code control over the output as well as the many prefab templates for newbies. The only problem here is that you can only run 5 digests — any more and you pay.Feed-o-Style
Feed-o-Style is a newer cometitor to FeedDigest. You don't get nearly the code control and there are no feed-mixing options, but their prefab templates are nice and customisable for most purposes. The only include option is JavaScript. There is also an 'API' by which you can generate feed-o-styles from a script.Grazr
Grazr is a different sort of service. Their code is barely customisable and again the only include option is JavaScript, but that's because the whole system runs using AJAX-style operation. Headlines from a feed can be included in your sidebar, or an entire OPML reading list can be rendered (XOXO not yet supported, see my sidebar for an example). ATOM feed support seems to be missing as of yet, and there are some other issues (mostly caused by the unreliability of implementations of the OPML 'spec') but overall it is a very interesting start. © 2006-2008 Stephen Paul Weber. Some Rights Reserved.
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Out of curiosity: was there some trouble with using CDATA sections with the beta layouting system? I seem to recall something vague on the topic, but can't quite clutch it.
BETA layouts are actually processed as XML, which means that CDATA sections around JavaScript (according to convention) would kill the ability to have <data:/> tags inside, since they would be interpreted as escaped-out tags by the CDATA instead of as tags.
The way around this is, of course, to escape out the CDATA sections like so:
//<[CDATA[
//]]>
Does that answer the question? Or am I just rambling?
thank you
This is really helpful. Is there a way I can make this widget work with my Feedburner feed instead of the raw Blogger Beta feeds?
@Ariel - if you send me the URL(s0 to your feedburner feed(s) I can make a custom version of the widget for you
Hi! Is there a way to read a feed? I mean I would like to show some feeds. And I don´t want that those links appear using JS (like AdSense). Is that possible modifying this widget? Thanx!
@xema — this is JavaScript to make it easy and automatic, to link manually just create links in your code / a links widget.
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