Looking for a new widget for your site or blog’s sidebar? New apps and ideas spring up all the time and lots of them disappear just as fast. Let’s take a look at five options for your sidebar.
Flickr Slideshow
These third party websites let you use the Flickr URL address of the user, photo set or group and tags to customize a slideshow to the dimensions you desire.
FlickrSLiDR allows you to easily embed the classic Flickr slideshows on your website or blog. All you need to do is enter the Flickr URL address of the user, photo set or group you would like to embed along with some options. You’ll receive the HTML embed code in return. Flickr Slideshow does the same thing.
Twitter for Wordpress
Twitter for WordPress displays your latest tweets in your Wordpress blog. Check it out to the right of our site!
Wordpress Widgets
There are so many great (and some not so great) widgets in this list.
Follow Me
The Follow Me Widget allows you to display links to all your social media profiles in one easy to access button or window.
Retaggr
Retaggr creates a central location for your personal info and a gateway to all your online profiles and networks. Your own content from those sites are automatically included.
What other great sidebar widgets do you use? Share your favorites in the comments!
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Are there no apps to update my readers of my Battlefield Earth fan fiction?!
wow, i like your post
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There's gotta be at least 1
Awesome, thanks a lot for the list.
Thanks Daniel, glad you were able to get something from it!
Great list – there's so many options out there, it's always nice to see a summary of some best practices.
We're not quite a sidebar widget per se, but I'd love to get your readers feedback on what we've built at TurnSocial.com – our social toolbar incorporates a lot of the functionality you talk about above, but we've also implemented some location based apps that we think a lot of businesses can benefit from. Thx for always delivering solid content!
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Great list. Some of them I already used and liked. I prefer to use Retaggr because it made me so easy to handle all my profiles. I also like ping.fm which allows me to control all of my blogs and update them very easily.
Thanks Daniel.
On this Twitter-based page, http://feeltiptop.com/battlefield%20earth/, you can find an embeddable widget that will let any reader of your page see interesting public chatter on Battlefield Earth. I have one for "Great Depression" on my blog page.
Thanks Daniel, very great post!.
I think Retaggr and the follow me plugin are definitely low hanging fruits that can be quickly implemented, and which add value. Thanks for putting this list together.
Thanks for featuring the follow me badge Patrick. We are actually in the midst of an update for it which will allow you to append the badge on the side of your browser, similar to Getsatisfaction.
The flickr slidr widget sounds pretty cool, will have to give it a shot.
Thanks for this guide, it’s just time to update my blog:)
this is a nice and great idea, but anyway thanks for the post. this is very cool.
I can see the tag to specify which of the sidebar items shows up on the main or archive page, but none of it shows up on the permalink pages– the sidebar is blank.
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