Mini WordPress.com Gadget
You might have noticed that WordPress.com is poised to take over the world. We’re not really supervillains but we do think we deserve to look like supervillains at least some of the time, don’t you? I mean, Doctor Evil had Mini-Me. That’s the kind of thing we want. (That is really our second choice but we don’t know any Zoroastrians named Wilma.)
But seriously, we’ve engineered a sort of miniature clone of WordPress.com. Once you’re logged in, the gadget lets you handle the most common aspects of blog administration. It has three main areas: Stats, New Post, and New Bookmark. These should be entirely self-explanatory so I’ll let them explain themselves.
There will be many uses for this miniature site and we’ve gotten the ball rolling by writing a Windows Live gadget. To use it, click Add Stuff, click Advanced Options, under Add a Gadget by URL enter http://m.wordpress.com/livegadget.xml and click Subscribe. You may have to refresh the page after that. Then under My Stuff click WordPress.com, then click “add to my page” and “Install Widget” and follow any additional instructions that may appear. (That seems like a lot of steps until you’ve done it as often as I have.)
If you find a new place to embed this gadget we sure want to know about it. Leave a comment and we’ll check it out!
- July 13, 2006
- Features, WordPress.com
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Good work! Maybe you can have a Yahoo/Konfabulator Widget for this…as most ppl. in the developing nations are yet to be familiar with Windows Live! and its Widgets.
Another option would be to provide an Opera Widget for it or even a Google personalized page addon !:)
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To add the WordPress Gadget to your live.com page just click on the icon
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http://www.live.com/?add=http://wordpress.com/livegadget.xml
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Cool. Does this only work with Windows live? I’ll be interested to see how I can use this.
I wonder what will become of this. So many people have so many bright ideas.
At least we can all see that wordpress.com is hard at work, offering new features, all the time.
Thanks guys!
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That’s pretty cool. I suppose this could work for easier mobile blogging too.
Just one question… what does the “17h 52m remain” thing mean on the stats page?
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This one seems cool.
Hey how about a Yahoo! Widget?
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What about a Mac Dashboard Widget? That’ll be cool
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A firefox extension would be cool.
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Stephen: That’s the amount of time remaining in the stats day. Stats are latched to UTC. Those numbers help you see how you’re doing compared to the day before.
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A Yahoo! Widget would be GREAT!! How how hard would that be to do?
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Maybe a Google widget too…
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Hey how about a Google Gadget? 8)
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A Yahoo! Widget would be GREAT!! How hard would that be to make?
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Dont forget to make one for netvibes please.
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Don’t you guys use Netvibes, I would prefer a netvibes module!!!
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How about a widget for OSX?
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Wow! This is gonna work well in smartphones and handhelds, isn’t it? If so, it would be really awesome! 🙂
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If anything, I’d suggest adding a tab for latest comments so we can access that aspect a little more easily as well. But the Gadget™ is prett damn cool; I can see finaly using mac’s dashboard (should a such a widget ever show up).
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Infact,it’s interesting a Google Gadget also: this will be great when i use gmail on my pda and the gadget of my blog.
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this is great feature.. clean and white.. writing a new post is really easy, but what are the 1.2.3.4 in the top posts.. i thought them to be links, but unable to click them…
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To make the Windows Live Gadget easier to add for users you can use a link in this format:
http://www.live.com/?add=http://wordpress.com/livegadget.xml
And whilst you are at it you should add the Gadget to the Windows Live Gadgets libray at
http://microsoftgadgets.com/AddGadget.aspx
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Thanx a lot guys.
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What’s a supervillian? Is it like a supervillain, or is it just an inhabitant of Superville?
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The top posts feature is pretty neat, any chance we could get that as a sidebar widget for our main blog? (maybe with top 4 posts today, top 4 posts yesterday… along with number of hits?)
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thay’s great.. but doesnt wanna work with me
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Huh, easy and simple.. But sorry if it seems like a dumb question, since I’ve only been blogging for a short time, but what/where is the [Add Stuff]? I don’t see it on the Gadget page..
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Lovely. Can I request you release it as a plugin and make it Netvibes compatible? 🙂
Oh, and if you guys are running Linux, you’re that much closer to being supervillans.
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very nice. not that i use live.com. but if i did, you know.
thanks, andy!
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awesome
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Great stuff!
Wish there be a Mac Widget too.
Thanks, Andy!
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How about a Mac OS X Dashboard widget?
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This is great, a quick way of posting and adding bookmarks. Really neat.
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I don’t undestand what is this. Can someone explain it to me in spanish????Thank you!
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Keeping my fingers crossed for Netvibes compatibility as well!
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this is gonna work well
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nice. thanks for your continued work.
wilma is not an intimidating supervillan name, especially for a blog empire mascot.
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7. drhaisook: I sure hope so! There’s very little javascript involved.
8. Nobodyknows: Fantastic idea! I’ll see what I can do.
10. Kunal: 1-2-3-4 are HTML acronym tags. Hover them to see the post title. This probably needs work, as I’m not sure how mobile devices will handle that.
12. wank: I knew I could count on you. 🙂
17. erik: Wilma held a special place in Dr. Evil’s heart. 😉
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how can a mac user use this? I’m very excited about being able to post to any of my blogs from one page and to see the summary of all of them on one page too! fantastic! thank you. now you have to tell me how I can use this on my google page or even directly in wordpress.com 😀
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Cool. I started a windows live just to see how it works. Any scance of making something like this for a google home pages???
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AWSOM!! would be great if i had somthing on my desktop tho 😦
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Cool beans.
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It’d be nice if this could be made into a GDesklet.
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I’ll echo the chorus of Google Widgets!
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I got the google widget done.
http://fusion.google.com/add?moduleurl=http%3A//gamespotting.net/wordpress.xml
have fun with it.
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Netvibes!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!
add this to your netvibes:
http://www.netvibes.com/addApiModule.php?url=http://gamespotting.net/wordpressnetvibes.html
screenshot:
http://fileupload.ning.com/view/1677335
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hey, I am ruff ruffman (not really) and I have my own reality widget blog.
http://ruffcode.wordpress.com/
Where you can get the mac dashboard widget, netvibes and the google personal homepage addon. Enjoy!
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woot! firefox, flock and IE sidebars! Plus awesome other stuff!
Besides my awesome show I got an dosawesome! website! check it out at
http://ruffcode.wordpress.com/
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Woot! Totally Awesome. Works great.
To those of you having problems getting the widget to work on live.com, in FireFiox, go to Tools->Options->Privacy->Cookies, then make sure cookies are enabled and the option “For the originating website only” is disabled.
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this has been asked a couple of times, but just to annoy everyone how about a google.com/ig gadget?
which of these services will actually dominate the future of internet surfing? will microsoft make a comeback? or will google grow and outsource microsoft??
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Those of you asking for a firefox plugin that uses WordPress, look no further than:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1730/
I did actually hit a hangup trying to use it, because it’s not particularly clear on how to configure it for WordPress, but I’m working on a simplified version of another tutorial on the subject.
If you don’t want to wait, read the tutorial I found at:
http://performancing.com/node/580
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I don’t know about everyone else, but who the heck uses Windows Live??
A OS X Dashboard widget or Yahoo!/Konfabulator widget would be much more useful, IMO.
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Joby: I have Performancing for Firefox installed and I like it very much but I usually forget to use it. I prefer tasks to be side-by-side, not stacked vertically. Still, it’s nice to know I can press F8 to blog. With Ruff’s Firefox extension I can also blog with Alt-W.
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Plus my firefox extension will be hosted on addons.mozilla.org soon! DOSAWESOME!
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you should have a dashboard widget for mac os X.
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geeklob: this, http://ruffcode.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/what-you-dont-have-a-mac-yet-you-made-this/
is for any mac that can run dashboard
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What about a Dashboard gadget for Mac OS X ?
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davortech try looking at the comment above.
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