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Widgets for wp.com blogs: 14 – jigsaw puzzles
On JigsawSite.com you can find many jigsaw puzzles, or turn your own images into such puzzles. You can play them on the site, but you can also insert them in your blog. Continue reading
Inserting Calameo docs
(For more on this, see The gigya shortcode: inserting Flash. Also note that Calameo provide their own “Wordpress” shortcode, but that shortcode doesn’t work.)
Inserting Picasa slideshows
Inserting Webshots slideshows
Widgets for wp.com blogs: 13 – some games
Inserting Prezi docs
This post explains how you can embed a Prezi doc in a WordPress.com blog.
Youtube videos starting at a specific point
YouTube videos are embedded via a WP-specific shortcode (or by simply pasting the video URL, if you have enabled auto-embeds in Settings > Media).
The shortcode allows you to add extra options too – see Support doc on YouTube.
But there’s an option missing from that doc: making the video start at a specific point. Continue reading
Inserting Grooveshark audio players
Grooveshark has a large collection of songs and classical music. You can insert a single song, or create and insert a playlist. The embed code they provide cannot be used directly in a wordpress.com blog, but it can be converted to a working shortcode (see here for general background).
A. Single song Continue reading
Inserting a series of Youtube videos
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/ If you have a Youtube account, you can create and save playlists. You can then insert such a playlist in your blog, and the videos will play in sequence. Useful for actual playlists as well as long videos that have been split into a number of parts. Copy the URL of the playlist; it … Continue reading
Inserting Kickstarter videos
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/ If an embeddable video provides a flash embed code (no javascript or iframe), it can be inserted in a wp.com blog as explained in my posts The gigya shortcode 1 – inserting videos or The gigya shortcode 3 – inserting Flash. Kickstarter videos can also be inserted that way, but you need a couple … Continue reading
Widgets for wp.com blogs: 6b – funny quotes
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/ Shortcode: [gigya src="http://www.pageplugins.com/generators/bumper_stickers/bumperstickers.swf" width="400" height="212" quality="high" wmode="transparent" ]
Adding an Etsy widget
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/ [Update summer 2012: post obsolete.] If you have an Etsy shop, you can display clickable thumbnails of items from your shop (or your favorites) in your sidebar. Example: Kerry Murray Photo The code you can get from Etsy isn’t directly allowed in wp.com blogs. But you can convert it into a different, allowed, code … Continue reading
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