Side-By-Side Widgets

Question: 

I want to put two widgets on my blog, but have them side by side rather than stacked on top of each other.  How do I do that?

Answer: 

Widgetbox has a feature called panels that's built just for this sort of thing.  It manages a bunch of widgets on your blog at once.  Here's what you do:

Login to Widgetbox and go to the My Panels page:

Click "Make a New Panel" on right side of screen.  You'll see the Panel Editor:

Chose the horizontal panel orientation:

Select some widget subscriptions from "Item Palette" and drag into the "Panel Layout".  In the screenshot above, I put two Baby widgets into the panel.

Click Preview if you want. 

Click Save. 

Click on 'Install panel now'.  On the resulting popup click 'Get Panel Code'.  Copy.

Finally, back in your blog remove the old code and paste in the new code for the panel.

This should be it.  From now on, you can modify the widgets and panel at Widgetbox and your blog is  instantly updated without re-installing. 

Tip:  you can also add a Text Block to add in any info you want.

Tip:  If you don't want the widgets to touch, add "padding-right: 5px;" under the "Style (CSS)" option.

A blog with the widgets side by side:

Hope this helps!

Comments

[Stephanie]

Hello, moses. I see you took our forum post and created a blog entry to help out the masses. What a great idea. It's corny I know, but I feel part of something now...

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[moses]

Thank YOU for taking the time to share your expertise on our platform with others! Gives us the warm fuzzies.