My Bloglines widget
I 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.
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just what i needed
Perfect! Thank you!
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.
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?
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.
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
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?
2.1.2 — it shows the widget name, but doesn’t provide a way to configure . . . sorry for the delay in responding.
Hi Finster — if you get it working, I’d be happy to make a modest contribution.
TIA
This is excellent! So easy to use. I have been looking for one of these for a while.
How can I limit the feeds shown to a particular folder?