Use Widget Tabs to Promote Multiple Websites, RSS Feeds
Have a presence on several websites?
Have multiple RSS feeds that you’d like to merge into a single widget?
Want to include your favorite blogs in one great widget?
The Blidget Pro makes this easy by allowing the addition of tabs within a single widget…. yet another reason to Go Pro! Here’s how:
Provide a Label and Select Add Tabs
In the second part (”Customize Blidget Content”) of the Blidget Pro creator, you will notice two relevant elements:
1. Label
Entering text here automatically adds a label for your widget’s content – placing it directly above the widget’s body. This label appears in a horizontal bar which will also house other tabs. When adding a label, be descriptive but short. In this case, I have used the label “New Posts”.
2. Tabs Creator
Click the “Tabs” link to open the creator. Then click “Add New Tab”!
Choose the Tab’s Format
Four great options:
1. RSS Feed
2. YouTube Feed (with video play!)
3. Vimeo Feed (with video play too!)
4. Hulu Feed (also with video play!)
For this example, let’s use the RSS Feed as an example:
Customize the Tab & Add an RSS Feed
Three easy steps to get started:
1. Content / Source: input your feed’s URL here
2. Tab Label: input the name of the tab and remember to keep it descriptive but short!
3. Layout: choose how the tab’s content will appear – List, Slideshow or Bricks view
Tips & Tricks with Tabs
Tabs are a terrific way to add increased content, value and promotion to your widget. There are countless usages of tabs, but here is a great example of how bloggers and blog networks can use the tabs effectively. Gawker Media operates several popular blogs from Gawker to Gizmodo to Kotaku. By using tabs, we can create a single Gawker widget that highlights content from across Gawker’s network of blogs. This is a powerful widget that can be displayed across Gawker’s network to promote content from each of their blogs. And it’s a terrific way for readers and fans to consume headlines from all the Gawker properties:
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It would nice to be able to combine multiple feeds into one widget NOT using tabs…Just having the multiple headlines display in one box.
Is this a feature that might be added in the future?
Thanks
Please contact support [at] widgetbox.com for feature requests like these.
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