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A Widget for Writers

January 15th, 2008 | Writers, blogging, highcallingblogs.com

What is a widget, you ask? It is a little bit of code that can be shared between many users that changes based on the information it receives via an RSS feed.

How can you have fun with widgets?

1) Create an account at some blog reader site, say Google Reader.
2) Subscribe to blogs you like to read.
3) In Google Reader click on “Manage Subscriptions.”
4) Organize the blogs you read into various folders or tags. (This is how we created a feed for each of our main categories at HighCallingBlogs.com)
5) Within manage subscriptions, click on “tags.”
6) Choose one tag to make into a widget, then click on “private” to make that tag “public.” I know this one is a bit counter-intuitive.
7) Click on “View Public Page.” This will open a new metablog that automatically aggregates the RSS feeds in that tag. Here is an example of our meta blog for blogs about writing on HighCallingBlogs.com.
8) Create a blidget at WidgetBox. (This is a multistep process, but they’ve made it pretty easy.)
9) Copy the code into your blog and viola:


(Did it work?)


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