Sunday, August 28, 2011

Entrecard related widgets -- a guide!




Rather than just leave my response in the comments section, I've decided to write up a quick guide. Hopefully this will be all inclusive, if it isn't feel free to ask and I'll try to clear things up.

I recently added a new widget to this blog, one that shows the ten most recent Entrecard droppers. It's a neat widget, that allows you to get more out of dropping on this page. Setting it up is rather simple.

First, you need to obtain the RSS feed URL from Entrecard. Depending on the type of widget you'd like to add to your blog, this URL will be in one of two places.

If you want one that shows the most recent droppers, then you're going to look on your dashboard. The URL will be to the right of the card roll that is underneath the main buttons on the Entrecard page. There will be a RSS button (  ). Click it, and get the URL.

If you want one that shows the most frequent droppers, then you're going to look on your statistics page.  Under the tables section, will be a "top droppers" table. Next to that table is yet another RSS button. Grab that URL.

After you have that URL, head over to feedburner. Enter the RSS URL that you got from Entrecard, and burn it.

Once you've burned it, click the publicize tab.

From the publicize tab, click on "BuzzBoost". 

From there, it should be fairly simple. Follow feed burners prompts, and they should present you with some html code to past into a widget box. It should be a simple iframe.

2 comments:

Colleen said...

Outstanding! Thank you so much! I'm heading over to get it started...many thanks!

That Blank Blogger said...

No problem! If you have any questions, feel free to ask.