Friday, July 10, 2009

4 New Gadgets from Blogger Buster

Amanda from Blogger Buster has developed 4 new gadgets for your blog's sidebar.

Display thumbnails of your most recent Picasa photos.
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Share your recent Twitter updates
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Show your most recent posts, with optional summaries
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Show your most recent comments, with optional summaries
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To add these gadgets go to your blog's Layout tab, click Add a Gadget, and then click Featured. There you'll find Amanda's gadgets along with other gadgets we are currently featuring.


You can stay updated when featured third-party gadgets are added by subscribing to the Blogger Featured Gadget blog.

Interested in building useful gadgets for bloggers? Get started now by reading the Blogger Developer Documentation.



Note: Currently some third-party gadgets will not display correctly in the Chrome browser. We are working on a fix for this.

73 comments:

mrbrownthumb said...

These are really cool. Nice to see a blogger I've been reading for a while get featured for her work.

I just tested it on my blog and noticed that when I clicked on a link and it sent me to the post page for that particular post all of my Adsense ads units went blank. If I then clicked the post title all the ads came back.

Once I figure out what happened or why my units disappeared with the widget I'll use it.

In case Amanda sees this: how about the thumbnail pic in the recent posts widget. I think that's my favorite widget thus far and probably the best idea for widgets had so far. Good work.

Anonymous said...

The link in the article above points to Google.com, instead of the Blogger Developer Documentation.

Anonymous said...

None of the links point to the gadgets, only the image. lol

concerned said...

I really wanted to point out sassyqarla.com. They are using blogger hosted but they tweaked the site very well. I can't believe that blogger can be as good as what they have right now.

Geeo said...

I would like to know why the 5 star rating doesn't work??? :S

Khatia said...

I wish random posts and friendfeed (without friendfeed design and blue lines)

Thanks for New gadgets :) good work!

Isaac Yassar said...

Interesting. Especially the recent comments gadget.

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Tenkely said...

These gadgets are appearing blank on my blog. Any ideas?

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Megan said...

I like the Recent Comments gadget (I have another version on my blog right now). However, when I attempt to use Amanda's, the apostrophes and ampersands come across with codes instead of the actual punctuation. For example, see mrbrownthumb's comment in the recent comments on this post.

blogdozemarcos.com said...

Blogger in Draft is having problems. Does not work the "white", only "html".

Chris S. said...

I like an alternative approach to recent comments and posts - find both feeds and add each to a Feed gadget. The list shows the titles only, but it matches the blogs style, which these new gadgets do not.

invisible braces said...

This Is good That Twitter updates gadgets has Come,
i feel the same as khatia i would like to see some good Friendfeed gadgets too.

Anonymous said...

concerned,

Stop Spamming the comments with your URL.

Or at least don't post while your signed in LOL!

That comment you made was a link to your site.

LMFAO

Stupid said...

@anonymous,

I saw the site that concerned shared and it is cute. by the way, you can comment using url. Like my comment, i used google. you are just being jealous.... Long live Blogger blogs!

Papilles et Pupilles said...

I've got the same pb as Megan => apostrophes and ampersands come across with codes instead of the actual punctuation

Moreover, the style is not the same as the other parts of the blog

SVBillabong said...

The Picasa Gadget does NOT show the recent photos due to this bug which has been around for a while.

It's not Amanda's fault (and I tried to report it to her before it got out of hand).. oh well.

BetaByte said...

Nice new widgets, but could the html trouble be fixed as well? It could perhaps be added to this earlier overview with some kind of ability for error reporting by users.

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Perfect gadgets, thanks bloggerindraft!

temizlik şirketi said...

very good, super widgets

Pudding Farts said...

this is great news

瓦特比 said...

The html code of Recent Posts gadget is "dt > a". I need "ul > li > a" to match my template's CSS.

SVBillabong said...

瓦特比 The recent post gadget lives in an Iframe outside the scope of your blogs CSS.

Only certain style parameters are passed to the gadget.

The standard feed gadget can do something similar, but is directly a part of your blog (and the css).. just past it your blog Feed as the FeedUrl

Siobhan Quinn said...

@SVBillabong I'll follow up with the Picasa folks about that bug.

I'll also talk to Amanda about the HTML escaping. May be a bug on our side.

sooji said...

super work
congrats.
Go ahead with ur nice work.

Siobhan Quinn said...

@SVBillabong Amanda was able to work around the Picasa issue by appending &q= to the end of the Picasa feed URL. This means the Picasa gadget will now show the most recent photos. The Picasa team is also working on a permanent fix.

One more thing, Blogger has a bug such that gadgets are unable to correct inherit the font-face from the blog. We are working to get this fixed so the gadget will have the same font as your blog.

SVBillabong said...

@Siobhan Quinn,

If you look through that Picasa thread, you'll see the &q= HACK is intermittent (at best), certainly not something I would use UNTIL the Picasa API Group says they'll support it permanently and leaves us a message to that effect in the forum, AND their documentation!! However it does seem to work today.

The CSS info I was referring to above is related to the user (瓦特比) thinking that the entire Blog CSS would be in effect with gadgets.

Thanks for the heads up on the font face bug.

Anonymous said...

They cannot work,just appear the message "An error occured fetching the feed data"

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Kaushik said...

The recent post widget is ugly. It doesn't follow the CSS style of the blog. Please fix it. Meanwhile I will continue to use Feedburner's headlines burner.

Kaushik said...

To Blogger in draft,

I would like to suggest a better Recent post widget, with thumbnails. If you could introduce it to Blogger users, I'm sure they will love it.

Recent post with thumbnails widget for Blogger

Thanks

Daniel J. Cassidy said...

With all these great features regularly made available, why not some additional templates -- specifically a Minima Stretch 3 column, with a centered column for blog posts and sidebars on left and right? There seems to be a market for this, but I have been reluctant to use those that are not approved and provided by Blogger.

Aschach said...

Hi there!
We are unable to make Recent Posts or Recent Comments Gadgets work. We get "An error occurred fetching the feed data" error message. Any ideas?
Thanks.

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Blogger Techniques said...

great work amanda!

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Anonymous said...

Can someone tell me why Is no where to contact blogger or google directly if they offer something what don´t work ?!
I tried many times every day but same sh...!
gadgets like "Get answer", "sing in", 2 different gadget "coments" dont work. Always I can get it to my blog but it still empty withount any link to write there. I take out and in..again again. Always same. Another problem vit Video gadget. That I give to blog site, but always after stop it and dont work. Just can see picture of video or open small window but empty -not play. And every where they write how is simle give in blog they gadgets but nowhere is link if don´t work and nowhere is detail help. I can do many think in many programs also some graphic, but I´m not profesional to change or find their problems in HTML. Can someone help or tell me where I can find help to solve this problems.
Victoria

Zed Blog said...

Commentaires récents (Recent Comments) ne fonctionne toujours pas chez moi. Avec des mini-photos oui, ce serait bien, mais d'abord, qu'il fonctionne! Cela fait près de deux ans qu'il est brisé et cette version n'est guère plus efficace. Merci beaucoup de vous en occuper!

Zed ¦)

Anonymous said...

Vicoria,

Good luck.. You might try @blogger on twitter. Blogger support is horrible, even more so with gadgets. They'll tell you to contact the gadget developer, but don't even give you a link to find them.

They need a central place to record bugs, comments and ratings BEFORE people install problem gadgets.

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thanks admin wonderful gadgets

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Gaurav Akrani said...

Thanks for cool new gadgets. I'm going to install them on my blog.

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xfifteen said...

Nice! :) I just can't seem to edit the colours of the links in the widget "Recent Posts"?

Anonymous said...

Thank you for adding nothing and point to someone else/other services like usual. The last time Blogger came up with something really useful is Import & Export so we can swicth to WordPress. (That's almost a year now)

Where's
- User subscription (I'll pay for this) - WordPress has it
- Member-specific label/post - WordPress has it on plugins
- Static page feature - WordPress has it
- Sticky - WordPress has it on plugins
- More templates (don't tell us to get somewhere else, those require html knowledge, aren't 100% compatible.

Stop depending on other people/services and get back to work, will you? (please)

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Steve Miller said...

Would someone please make a "share" button so our blog readers can easily share with their favorite social networking websites?

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Hot Sauce said...

thx 4 those options!

temizlik şirketi said...

Thanks Blogger in Draft, super gadgets

eric said...

im having trouble installing the twitter plugin

Jayarava said...

"Recent comments" is still sending codes instead of apostrophes. Can't see any response to this problem. Makes it unusable. Deleting for the time being.

mjc said...

Now all I need to do is actually work out how to use twitter hehe

Anonymous said...

Hey! I thought only blogger.com has problem. Now, even draft.blogger.com also has problems! You know, I have some troubles adding a gadget or perhaps saving it. I really hope that blogger would do something to it.

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how do i find this addons sir? When I add a widget on blogger, only few I see. Why is this? Is my blogger different?

S. Torpedos said...

Hey! I love this new blogger in draft interface. It's so cool. And everything is so neat. I'd love to have it published and official!

sirvan said...

well, these gadgets are very helpful..

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P.Raghavendra Reddy said...

good blog

antwa said...

wew, thank's for the share.....

peter said...

Several people are having the same issue with their gadgets.
"An error occured fetching the feed data"
I get this when I try to instal the recent comment gadget.
Anyone got any advice to cure this?

Anonymous said...

Peter, if your blog is private you get that error.

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I love the recent comments and recent posts widget.

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Charles said...

Great blog here with excellent info. I am adding to my favorites.

Anonymous said...

Any chance of the various html codes in recent comments being fixed? Other than that great gadgets.

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I should say that you give good information for other bloggers! Good job. I think i will consider to use twitter and Picasa for my free pdf ebook website

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