Collecta Live Search Widget for Your Website!
Man… talk about a cool little utility to make your site pop out above the rest… Collecta has jumped into the widget pool with a new feature that allows you to stream live news on your website!
The Collecta Widget Builder is a quick and easy way for you to give your readers more information about whatever topic you decide! It loads SUPER fast and you can configure your own widget in like 1 minute, and load it into a sidebar or page on ANY kind of site that allows you to run an iframe.
Nothing really new as far as inserting a feed to your site goes… but this one is “Live & Streaming”, meaning it is going to show results while the visitor is browsing. Look at the one I just created about WordPress SEO…
What Can you Include
Really – Anything you can think of! The Collecta system can display images, video, news, blog posts, ANYTHING that is being posted on the web and indexed by Collecta! (Which is a LOT)
Cool for sure!! Like Real-Time for your website! Check it out!
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Oh yes, loving that, cool!
Hi
Can you install “Collecta Widget Builder” on sidebars in Bans sites?
Sounds like a graet plugin.
Regards.
Kevin
@Kevin – Should work perfect Kevin – but you may need to add it to the actual theme file code itself.
Oh, I can’t seem to make it show up. I presume I just add the code to the html part in a page? What dimensions do you suggest?
@Cherie – It really depends on where you are showing it!
I use dimensions to match my page design or sidebar…
If its being used in an “Out of the Box” wordpress site – you MUST write your post/page first, then switch to the html view, and wrap the iframe with the [code] tags.
IF you leave the code editor and go bac to the visual WYSIWYG editor, it will hose it an erase your work! :-)
For sidebars - just insert a text widget and paste it in.
Where abouts would best in the styles.css code?
Kevin
What a neat little widget!!
Rochelle
@Kevin – It really depends on the theme you are using and where you want it to display on the site.
I would add it to a sidebar though…
Again, depending on the theme you are using, that may be into the header or footer file, and the width may differ, depending the theme settings.
No changes at all needed in the style.css file.
Mark
@Mark Hansen –
Cheers Mark,I’ve added it to a couple of my sites.Toyed around with the code and placed it in different places.Real thing to add to my sites.
Thanks for bringing it to us all.
Regards.
Kevin
Impressive! Thanks for sharing this us.
@Mark Hansen – nope, still won’t play ball. I’m using the arthemia mod that you did for us, I wrote a sentance, published it, went back into html mode, clicked on “code”, inserted the widget and closed the “code” and republished, still nada. :(
@Cherie – Thats a weird one Cherie… I am using Arthemia here and did it the exact same way! At one review site where I have it, it works the same way also.
I wrote the post, saved, went to html code view, pasted in the iframe where I wanted it, wrapped it in code tags, saved.
That said… I made a change to the post later in the day, and the code disappeared the minute I hit the editor.
Worked perfect.
@Mark Hansen – I tried in both a post and a page but still no joy. I’ll try with a different site
Hi Mark
I can get it to work on a site using flexsqueeze but not that Arthemia one. Are you able to give any more insight?
@Cherie – Actually “this” site is powered by Arthemia, and the only thing I did was what is mentioned above.
I JUST NOW added the widget to another site, powered by Arthemia, using the exact steps above as well.
You MUST make sure that once you paste the iframe code in place and wrap it with your [code] tags, you do not go back into the post in visual mode.
1 - Write your page or post.
2 - Switch the editor to "html" view
3 - Paste the iFrame widget exactly where you want it to display
4 - Wrap it in "[code tags
5 - Save and view.
At this point, if you go into the visual editor at all - you will need to start over. It wipes all iframe code off the page.
M
Thanks Mark
I tried again on both a post and page but still can’t do it. Very odd. I’ll keep bashing away at it!
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