Over the last couple weeks, we’ve added several features to the Blidget Pro. The latest enhancement is by popular demand:

You can now add or remove the “Get Widget” button on your Blidget Pro.

This is an option in the Blidget creator / editor flow. If you have already created a Blidget Pro and want to hide the Get Widget button, simply edit your widget and toggle the option to “Include ‘Get Widget’ button when blidget is installed”. This a useful feature if your widget is designed to sit tightly alongside other components on your website. But beware – without the ‘Get Widget’ button, readers cannot grab and embed your content:

Learn more about the Blidget Pro and read other Tutorials

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“How to make a widget using the Blidget tool”

There will be more screencasts on the way… including detailed guides to creating effective Blidget Pros:

Widgetbox is excited to announce the launch of the Blidget Pro – the next-generation of our successful Blidget tool and our first subscription-based service. The Blidget Pro is a far more powerful version of the Blidget – a tool that has converted nearly 100,000 blogs into widgets and served 2.3 billion impressions since its initial launch in 2007.

The Blidget Pro represents a major step forward and represents the easiest, fastest way to turn your content into dynamic, branded widgets and reach new users across the web.

Wondering how best to turn your valuable content into portable widgets?
Worried about the high cost of custom widget development?
Want to reach new users off your site and across the web?

Priced at $3.99 per month, Blidget Pro is the best price way to widgetize your content.

Blidget Pro Features:

- Easily create viral, branded widgets without any code
- Custom header, footer and/or body assets (jpg, gif, swf, png)
- Tab integration for multiple feeds and formats
- In-widget video integration for YouTube, Hulu and Vimeo (Hulu example)
- New visual layouts (slideshow, brick-mode, headlines with images)
- Custom widget linking (header, footer and/or body)
- Premium promotion on Widgetbox.com
-Widget analytics (installs, widget views, uniques)

Below are a few sample Blidget Pros – but you can see dozens more in the Blidget Pro Gallery

 

 

Excited? Ready to Go Pro?

Learn more or get started here!

Learn more about the Blidget Pro and read other Tutorials

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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:

Learn more about the Blidget Pro and read other Tutorials

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