Site Update - HubPages Widget

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   pauldeedsposted 15 years ago

   After a little more testing we've just opened up another new feature that went out yesterday -- a HubPages widget that you can add to your blog or website.  To grab the code, just go to your profile page and you should see a link in the right hand column.
   
   You can see an example of it in action on Paul Edmondson's blog Train Thoughts.
   
   We've tested this on a dozen or so different blogs and fixed all the problems we encountered.  However, it would not surprise me if some formatting issues come up where css bleeds through from the surrounding page and affects the display of the widget.  If you have a problem with it on your site, please send us a link to the page at team@hubpages.com.  We'll try and fix all the reported problems by next week.
   
   Thanks!

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      SirDentposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      I finally got around to using the widget. I love it and think it's much better than an RSS feed. Thanks HubPages team.

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      Gail Alexanderposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you for the update about the widget. I am going to "try" and put it on my site!
      Gail Alexander
      ArtMusing: http://artmusingbyalexander.blogspot.com
      
      
      
      
      

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      gayathraposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      THANKS COOL

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         anjalichughposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         I didn't know that it was something new. I've been using it on my website (www.anjalichugh.com) for quite sometime now and I have no issues so far. Working fine.

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   ProCWposted 15 years ago

   It looks really cool! I see that you can use trackers? cool!
   
   ProCW

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   Mark Knowlesposted 15 years ago

   Awesome ! Already installed

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      hassamposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Wow! that's a cool thing

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   jyuvaposted 15 years ago

   Wow! cool

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   Dottie1posted 15 years ago

   Added to my website.  Love it!  Thanks guys!

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   weblogposted 15 years ago

   Already Installed It's pretty Cool

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   laringoposted 15 years ago

   Very nice folks!!! I added to my blog and it looks terrific....thanks for the continued support.

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   Paul Edmondsonposted 15 years ago

   I added it to my blog:)

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   darksideposted 15 years ago

   Nifty!

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    shinujohn2008posted 15 years ago

    Can This be configured to open in new pages

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       guidebabaposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Same question here.

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    spudsposted 15 years ago

    Another great development.

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    Binnjeamposted 15 years ago

    It really does look superb. Now I just need a website/blog to put it on LOL.

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    Uninvited Writerposted 15 years ago

    I just added it to my Blogger, looks good

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       Dorsiposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Susan, where do you add it on Blogger?

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          funrideposted 15 years agoin reply to this

          You can add it in a html capsule .
          
          Layout » Add a gadget » HTML/Javascript
          
          I hope this have helped you .

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    Bob Ewingposted 15 years ago

    Just added to my blog, looks good.

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    terenceyap07posted 15 years ago

    This is really useful! Thanks Paul! And a very big thank you to the Hubpages Team!

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    compu-smartposted 15 years ago

    Swweeerrr;)

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       compu-smartposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Swwweettt even!

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    rockinjoeposted 15 years ago

    love it. Can't wait to try it out.

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    Paragliderposted 15 years ago

    Hi Paul - I've put it on my blog. It looks great in Internet Explorer, but in Firefox the red hubscore boxes are half width only showing the first digit. It's not because of the width setting because I tried increasing that.
    
    It's a great widget though!

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       pauldeedsposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       It looks ok to me with IE7, but perhaps the problem is only in IE6.  I'll take a look at IE6 when I get to the office.  Thanks Paraglider.

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          Paragliderposted 15 years agoin reply to this

          Hi Paul - IE6 & 7 are fine. It's only in Firefox I'm seeing the problem, on my blog and also on Paul E's.

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             pauldeedsposted 15 years agoin reply to this

             Sorry, I misread your post.  Are you using an older version of firefox by any chance?   I ask because it looks ok for me in 3.0.1 on windows anyway ...

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                Paragliderposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                I'm on 2.0.0.16. , and on Win XP SP2  I'll upgrade (if available) and let you know.

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                   Paragliderposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                   Hi Paul - seems there's no higher upgrade of Firefox available on XP (but I'm in Qatar - things are not always normal here). Here's a screen grab of the problem. On the left, IE7 (good) on the right, Firefox 2.0.0.16 (faulty)
                   
                   http://www.trimediamiddleeast.com/hub-widget.PNG
                   
                   I'm also getting a 'content encoding error' when I click on the hub links inside the widget.

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       Stacie Lposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       I have a widget on my blogger site and so far it's working fine.

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    Peter M. Lopezposted 15 years ago

    I am having difficulty loading it on my wordpress.com blog.  Any special settings required that anyone knows about?

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       pauldeedsposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Not that I'm aware of, but it does use javascript.  Perhaps wordpress.com doesn't allow you to insert javascript?

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    pauldeedsposted 15 years ago

    Got it, we'll take a look in firefox 2 and see if we can't fix it.  Thanks for your help.

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       MrMarmaladeposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       This does look like magic. Thank you

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    Paragliderposted 15 years ago

    Hi Paul -
    
    Another slight problem - maybe I'm doing something wrong?
    
    When I click on the profile link or the hubpages link in the widget, it works, but when I click on an individual hub link, I'm getting this:
    
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    Content Encoding Error (content_encoding_error)
    
    
    Server response could not be decoded using encoding type returned by server. 
    This is typically caused by a Web Site presenting a content encoding header of one type, and then encoding the data differently. 
    
    For assistance, contact your network support team.
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    By the way - this also happens when I test Paul E's widget on his train blog.
    Any ideas? Thanks!

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    blogdigzposted 15 years ago

    Nice site update

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    Veronica Brightposted 15 years ago

    Great!  Now how do we get the code and install it?
    V

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       pauldeedsposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       There is a link on your profile page in the right column, or you can just go here directly for your widget.  One caveat, it will only work in places that allow javascript.

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          Paragliderposted 15 years agoin reply to this

          I am still getting the content encoding error on every hub link, but not on the profile link or the hubpages link. Am I the only one having this issue?
          
          Could someone please test my widget from somewhere not in the Middle East, and let me know if it works? it is here  http://paranormal-hotel.blogspot.com  thanks very much in advance!
          
          One extra piece of info: - it gets as far as putting the link into the browser url window and even displays the hubpages favicon, but it doesn't remove the referral code from the url, so I get this:
          
          http://hubpages.com/_1tx3xfc3jxa95/hub/ … rom-Belief
          
          Sorry to be a pain, but I'd love this to work because it's a great addition.

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             pauldeedsposted 15 years agoin reply to this

             The hub links are created dynamically with javascript, while the 2 links at the bottom are just normal HTML links.  Does it work ok if you click this link from here, just not from the widget?
             
             http://hubpages.com/_1tx3xfc3jxa95/hub/ … rom-Belief
             
             I'm really not sure what is going on, but it may be some kind of funny interaction with a firewall or proxy server that your traffic is being routed through.  I'm fairly confident that it works normally from most locations (since your's is the only reported problem).

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       funrideposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Easy!
       
       Go to your profile page and click on "Add Veronica Bright's widget to your website" and it is almost done .
       
       edit: I wasn´t fast enough

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    Veronica Brightposted 15 years ago

    Thank you both!  I installed it.  Looks great on my blogger site.
    Great idea!
    V

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    Ryan Hupferposted 15 years ago

    Glad that you guys are diggin' the widget so far - let us know any issues that come up when you go to install it.
    
    Rock on with your bad selves...

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    carpesomediemposted 15 years ago

    This is very, very cool! 

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       Ryan Hupferposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Yeah, but it would be WAY cooler if it could make me coffee in the morning...engineering is working on that as we speak. Well, either that or they're playing Quake again...
       
       

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    Ryan Hupferposted 15 years ago

    Hey Paraglider!
    
    I just checked out your blog and it looks like the widget is working great and it's also including the referral link in all of your Hub links.
    
    Looking good.

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       Paragliderposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Hi Ryan -
       Thanks for doing that. Have you any clue why it might not be working for me? The link to my profile page works, but the links to individual hubs don't. It seems that the referral code is not being removed from the url, resulting in this content encoding error.
       
       Still if it's working for you, it's probably working for most of my 10,000 daily visitors (joke!)

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    Ryan Hupferposted 15 years ago

    No problem, my man.
    
    I sent something to Paul to see what he thought...we'll see if his geniusness can help us out.

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    Paragliderposted 15 years ago

    Thanks Hup - much appreciated!

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    Paragliderposted 15 years ago

    No, that doesn't work either. I'll try a few more PCs in Qatar. I think it must be a local problem, especially as I get the same error on Paul E's widget.
    
    I'm still going to keep it on the site, as most of my (small) readership is non-Qatari!

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       pauldeedsposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Ok.  For what it's worth links with trackers in them attempt to do an HTTP 301 redirect to the URL without the tracker.  Something in there is probably what is causing the problem, but without direct access to a machine in Qatar it's very difficult to debug.   You can remove trackers from your widget altogether if you want to work around the problem.

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          Paragliderposted 15 years agoin reply to this

          Interesting, and thanks for persevering. How would I remove the trackers from the widget?

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             pauldeedsposted 15 years agoin reply to this

             Just select "None" in the tracker drop down list on the page where you grab the code for your widget.

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                Paragliderposted 15 years agoin reply to this

                Great - thanks!
                
                [Edit] - Done it. That works now, even from Sunny Qatar!

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    topstuffposted 15 years ago

    Awesome,thanks

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    Paragliderposted 15 years ago

    Hi Paul - Just to complete the story, I've just upgraded to Firefox 3.1, which has fixed the squashed hubscores on the widget. All is now well, even in Qatar!

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       Ryan Hupferposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       So now it's official...QATAR LOVES HUBPAGES!
       
       I will sleep so much better tonight.

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    Encouragerposted 15 years ago

    THanks Paul.  I will add it to my blogs. Blessings.

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       Ryan Hupferposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Awesome, let us know how it looks once you get it up and running...

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    LisaGposted 15 years ago

    Hi Guys,
    
    I tried placing it on my site but all I got was a link "more << Hub Pages", not the pretty widget as displayed.  The link is working though, but is it because of the Java Script thing that I'm not getting the pretty widget?

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    Paragliderposted 15 years ago

    For the record, the widget seems to work perfectly in the new Google Chrome browser too.

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    rmshdcposted 15 years ago

    love the addition!

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    Research Analystposted 15 years ago

    I like it, great tool.

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    multimasteryposted 15 years ago

    Thanks for the cool widget, looks good to me, just added it to my blog!  Looks better than a standard rss feed plus it includes my referral code ~ Sweet!

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    AEvansposted 15 years ago

    I must check it out and apply it, thanks for sharing the information.

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    guidebabaposted 15 years ago

    Great Widget.

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    ripplemakerposted 15 years ago

    Hi, widget has been fine since I have placed it in my ripplemaker blog.  Thanks!    pretty cool...

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    mheiposted 15 years ago

    this is really awesome! i already added the widget to my blog site and it looks just great.thanks so much

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    JohnSTposted 15 years ago

    OK, I am going to display this widget on my blog. Will let you guys know how my hubpage badge is working soon.

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    wannabwesternposted 15 years ago

    Love the widget. It's on my blog and was easy to add. Thanks!

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    waynetposted 15 years ago

    Would there ever be a possibility of creating a few more variations of content, such as from our own group folders, I'd love to add some really targeted hub links on different topics and being able to add relevant content widgets would be great!
    
    The latest, hottest and best categories are good for a basic rundown of our hub pages but some relevant sub sections would be cool!
    
    Cheers!

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    Anti-Valentineposted 15 years ago

    I've just started a blog on blogger.com last month, and I wanted to add my hubpages widget. I know about editing the HTML template, but whereabouts do you actually paste the code? I get an error message saying either that it isn't well-formed or that the ';' delimiter needs to be inserted after the line referring to 'h', and it won't save the template.

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       Marisa Wrightposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       The easiest thing is to add your widget (click the link in your profile and copy the code).
       
       Then you want to "add a gadget" to your sidebar.  The one you want is "HTML code", if I remember rightly.  Then you just paste the widget code into the box that opens, save and you're set.
       
       The widget looks nicer than the plain RSS feed and does the same thing, plus it includes your tracker.

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          ANDR01Dposted 15 years agoin reply to this

          Thanks Marisa, it worked! Now I know to use this way instead.

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       EYEAM4ANARCHYposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       I would just add your Hub profile to a blogroll.

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    Abhishek87posted 15 years ago

    Hey, doesn't the widget work on WordPress ? I applied it on Blogger and it cam on great but Now I tried it with Wordpress but it shows 2 links "more" and "hubpages" instead of the visual it shows on Blogger......

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       Marisa Wrightposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       I have it on my Wordpress blog and it works fine.  I just posted the code into a text widget.

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          Abhishek87posted 15 years agoin reply to this

          Yeah, I did the same thing but it doesn't show as it does in blogger. Any ideas what the problem could be ?

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