The following 10 Premium Widgets are available on Edublogs supporter blogs and Edublogs Campus blogs only!
You need to activate:
- Widget Pack in Plugins > Installed Plugins to have access to the ClustrMaps, Delicious, FlickR, Google Search, Twitters, VodPod Widgets
- Twitter Tools in Plugins > Installed Plugins to have access to the Twitter Tools Widget
- Subscribe2 Widget in Plugins > Installed Plugins and in Settings > Subscribe2 to have access to the Subscribe2 Widgets
- Subscribe2 Counter Widget in Plugins > Installed Plugins to have access to the Subscribe2 Counter Widgets
- Askimet in Plugins > Installed Plugins to have access to the Askimet Widget
Once activated these widgets will appear in your available widget area in Appearance > Widgets.
Askimet Widget
The Akismet widget displays the number of spam comments caught and identify as spam by Akismet over the life of your blog.
ClustrMaps
ClustrMaps is a free thumbnail hit counter map widget that shows the location of all visitors to your blog. Number of visitors from a location is indicated by the relative size of the dot.
It’s a “must-have” widget for class and student blogs because it reminds students that they are part of a global voice and demonstrates how interconnected we all are.
Here are the instructions for adding a ClustrMaps to your blog sidebar using:
- The ClustrMaps Widget – Edublogs supporters only
- A Text Widget – free Edublogs users
Delicious
The Delicious widget is used to add your latest bookmarks from your Delicious account (or someone else’s account). Some bloggers use this to share their social bookmarks with their readers.
Email Subscription Widget
The Email Subscription Widget adds a form to your sidebar for readers simply enter their email address and then click on “Subscribe”. The readers then receive an email notifying when new posts are published on the blog.
To read the post your reader will need to click on a link in the email which takes them to the post on your blog.
Flickr Widget
The Flickr widget makes it easy to show thumbnails of the latest pictures from your Flickr account in your blog sidebar.
This widget only works for the RSS feed URL at the bottom of your photostream on Flickr. It won’t work for any other FlickR page.
Google Search Widget
The Google Search Widget adds a Google Search tool to your blog which your readers can use to search content on your blog or use to search Google.
Twitters Widget
The Twitter widget is used to display updates from a Twitter account in the sidebar of your blog.
Supporter Badge Widget
Supporter Badge widget adds a supporters badge to Edublogs supporter blogs.
Friends Widget
Inside Edublogs Campus blogs the Friends tools allows users on the Campus site to ‘friend’ each other, display funky widgets with avatar mosaics of all their friends on the site and generally get all social and hooked up with each other.
Friends allows you to view and message your existing friends, search for and add friends, receive email updates when someones adds you as a friend, approve or reject friend requests.
You can display your friends on your blog sidebar using the Friends widgets.
Subscribe 2 Widget
Subscribe2 is used on Edublogs Campus blogs to provide a comprehensive subscription management and email notification system.
The Subscribe2 Widget adds a form to your sidebar for readers simply enter their email address and then click on “Subscribe”. The readers then receive an email notifying when new posts are published on the blog.
Subscribe 2 Counter Widget
The Subscribe2 Counter Widget (Edublogs Campus blogs only) displays the number of people who have subscribed to your blog using Subscribe2 email notification system.
