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WP Chiclets

WP Chiclets provides a set of RSS chiclet buttons in the sidebar; it automatically customizes itself to a blog and its feed URL. There are a bunch of “chiclet creator” websites that will generate HTML for you, but I couldn’t find any sidebar widgets to do this without requiring hand-editing of templates.

Installation is the usual for a sidebar widget:

• Download the zip file.
• Unzip it into wp-content/plugins (or upload the wp-chiclets.php file into the wp-content/plugins directory on the web server).
• Look for “WP Chiclets” in the WordPress “Plugins” control panel and activate it.
• Go to the WordPress “Presentation” control panel and configure the widgets; add the “WP Chiclets” to the sidebar somewhere.

There are no code- or template-editing requirements to use this plugin; the links and logos will appear in the sidebar, automatically customized to the blog, wrapped up in standard widget CSS for easy styling.

I’ve written this a sidebar widget for WordPress-2.2; I don’t know if it will work with older versions. If you like it (or if you don’t), please leave a comment with a link to your website.

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Posted in WordPress on Fri Jul 20, 2007 at 12:06 am by Rob

24 Comments

1. [...] Please leave questions or comments on my blog. [...]

   WordPress Plugin Competition Blog » WP Chiclets - sidebar widget # Wed Jul 25, 2007 — 3:20 pm

2. Thanks for making this plugin . I need some help though. After activiating it you say to “add the “WP Chiclets” to the sidebar somewhere”
   I don’t see what I am meant to add to the sidebar. Can’t see anything to add. Please can you be more explicit for amateurs?

   Liz # Fri Jul 27, 2007 — 5:22 pm

3. > Thanks for making this plugin . I need some help though. After
   > activiating it you say to “add the “WP Chiclets” to the sidebar
   > somewhere” I don’t see what I am meant to add to the sidebar.
   > Can’t see anything to add. Please can you be more explicit for
   > amateurs?

   This plugin requires:

   • A widget-ready theme.
   • If running a version of Wordpress older than 2.2, you also need the Sidebar Widgets plugin.

   I took a look at your website, and it appears to be running WordPress-2.1, so you will have to either upgrade to a newer version of WordPress, or install the Sidebar Widgets plugin. You might also need to change to a widget-ready theme.

   Rob # Fri Jul 27, 2007 — 6:01 pm

4. I very much like this approach. I’d created a sidebar with numerous hand edited links.

   May I suggest adding the following to this great plugin:

   My AOL
   My MSN
   Feedburner
   Rojo

   Thanks!

   Bill Petro # Fri Jul 27, 2007 — 9:29 pm

5. Thanks for version 1.2. I appreciate the inclusion of AOL, MSN, MSN Live, and Rojo. Feedburner is a popular subscription service. And though it’s recently been bought by Google, they still maintain an independent presence on the web.

   Regards,

   Bill Petro # Tue Jul 31, 2007 — 8:34 am

6. > Thanks for version 1.2. I appreciate the inclusion of AOL, MSN, MSN
   > Live, and Rojo. Feedburner is a popular subscription service. And though
   > it’s recently been bought by Google, they still maintain an independent
   > presence on the web.

   There are no plans to add FeedBurner support. The current chiclets only require that the visitor have an account with the respective service.

   FeedBurner requires that the blog publisher have a FeedBurner account before such a chiclet button can be set up (so that the blog can be tracked); it would require significantly more development time to integrate this kind of configuration into a WordPress widget plugin (I don’t have that kind of time).

   FeedBurner recommends a few options for WordPress integration at their QuickStart for WordPress page.

   Rob # Tue Jul 31, 2007 — 9:15 am

7. Thanks Rob. Of course, I have a Feedburner account :-)

   However, I was not aware of their extensive support for WP and their FeedSmith plugin. I’m not sure I want to give all of my feeds to them, as the instructions for the plugin suggest.

   Regards,

   Bill Petro # Tue Jul 31, 2007 — 10:35 am

8. This is an excellent plugin but it gave me a major problem that forced me to deactivate it.

   When the widget was added to the sidebar, instead of “stacking” the links as is shown here, they caused them to display horizontal to one another, destroying the layout to the sidebar.

   Could you advise of a solution to this?

   Thanks

   Porter M. Corn # Thu Aug 2, 2007 — 1:11 pm

9. > When the widget was added to the sidebar, instead of “stacking” the
   > links as is shown here, they caused them to display horizontal to one
   > another, destroying the layout to the sidebar.

   The widget is providing the chiclets as <li> elements, which should display stacked on each other. This means your theme CSS is overriding the display of <li> elements; you will have to fix your theme.

   Rob # Thu Aug 2, 2007 — 1:27 pm

10. Oh this is nifty. I think I’ll use it.

    Jenny # Thu Aug 9, 2007 — 9:38 am

11. I installed this and it works great! One very minor problem though, the images don’t show up. The source on the page is:

    It needs to be:

    http://mysitename.com/wordpress/wp-includes/images/rss.png

    This is because I have wordpress in a sub-directory from my root web directory and have the re-write stuff going on. I would imagine there are other wordpress users that have done the same thing.

    So, I modified the path in your widget code manually and it works fine now. Just thought you would want to know.

    Awesome plug in!

    Donovan # Thu Aug 9, 2007 — 12:18 pm

12. Version 1.2.1 is available on wordpress.org. It is just a minor fix to get things working with WordPress installations where the wordpress directory is different from the website URL; there are no new features.

    Rob # Thu Aug 9, 2007 — 1:56 pm

13. hi,

    thanks for this plugin. i have been looking for this a long time .. guess i have been looking at the wrong place. i also like WP Authors. two great plugins i have been looking for :)

    also i have a suggestion (of sorts). i have been looking for a plugin which will enable me to put information about the authors for my website. in case some one leaves or some one new comes in, i can just either add/edit the entry into the page. can you please tell me if such a plugin exists or if u can make one such plugin?

    thanks…

    hkarthi # Mon Aug 20, 2007 — 11:30 pm

14. hi,

    thanks for this plugin. i have been looking for this a long time .. guess i have been looking at the wrong place. i also like WP Authors. two great plugins i have been looking for :)

    also i have a suggestion (of sorts). i have been looking for a plugin which will enable me to put information about various authors who write for my website. I want to create a page “About Authors” and be able to enter details about each author and their photo(thumbnail). In case some one leaves or some one new comes in, i should be able to delete the older profile or just add a new one (with photo if possible) in the “About Authors” page. can you please tell me if such a plugin exists or if u can make one such plugin?

    thanks…

    hkarthi # Mon Aug 20, 2007 — 11:33 pm

15. I am using custom sidebars, so I can’t just drag and drop the chiclets on my sidebar. How do I add it to my custom l_sidebar.php file?

    Cheryl Wogahn # Wed Aug 22, 2007 — 12:03 pm

16. > I am using custom sidebars, so I can’t just drag and drop the chiclets
    > on my sidebar. How do I add it to my custom l_sidebar.php file?

    By definition, this is a widget, so it needs a widget sidebar. If you are comfortable hacking your theme’s PHP code, you can probably do some kind of cut-and-paste with the widget_wpchiclets routine and put that somewhere in your l_sidebar.php file.

    Rob # Wed Aug 22, 2007 — 12:15 pm

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18. When we use the plugin, everything renders find in the sidebar, but the RSS feeds say they cannot be found?

    Did I miss a setting?

    Cheryl # Wed Sep 12, 2007 — 11:28 am

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20. Great plugin. Thanks a lot.

    plastik # Thu Feb 28, 2008 — 4:59 am

21. When we use the plugin, everything renders find in the sidebar, but the RSS feeds say they cannot be found?

    Did I miss a setting?

    Otogaz # Sun Mar 30, 2008 — 7:51 am

22. LOVE this widget!!! Could you please add chiclets for the following…

    Twitter
    PageFlakes
    MySpace
    FaceBook
    Blogger
    TypePad

    That would be great! Keep up the awesome work!!!

    -Murph

    Murph # Sat Jun 28, 2008 — 5:12 pm

23. I am using custom sidebars, so I can’t just drag and drop the chiclets on my sidebar. How do I add it to my custom l_sidebar.php file?

    izlekop # Sun Oct 19, 2008 — 12:41 am

24. What about tag pages? I’m finding that alot of my traffic is coming from tag pages. I didn’t see any settings for true/false with regard to tag pages. Thx.

    Plastik cerrahi # Wed Oct 22, 2008 — 5:16 pm

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