Using Tag Aware Settings

Team Widgetbox — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:00:48 +0000

A tag aware widget is one whose content can be controlled via a tag in a blog post. You can
read more about what you can do with tag aware widgets here.

How to Use a Tag Aware Widget

When you are subscribing to a widget, a tag icon is displayed next to any field that is Tag Aware:

When you click the tag icon, you see this:

This is what the options do:

If you check just ‘Enable Tag-Awareness’

This allows you to use the

This sends the keyword "tech" to any field of any widget to which you just
checked "Enable Tag-Awareness". You can see an example in a blog post
here.

If you additionally click ‘Support "rel" tags’:

Technorati and other tagging sites use the rel-tag
specification to tag content in a blog. We let these industry standard tags control widgets, too.
For example, you can tag the word "tech" by blogging this:

I like Technology.

This sends the keyword "tech" to any field of any widget to which you checked ‘Support "rel" tags’.

If you additionally click ‘Named tag’:

This lets you send information to a specific parameter of a specific widget:

This will send the keyword "tech" to any widget that has a configuration parameter with a named tag "srchTrms".

Getting Started with Tag Aware Widgets

Team Widgetbox — Wed, 06 May 2009 06:51:42 +0000

Widgetbox widgets have some special capabilities that make your blog smarter and more useful.

Control your widgets from your blog posts

Many widgets on Widgetbox can be controlled by writing blog posts. We call this a Tag Aware widget. Just put a tag in your blog post, and the widget will use that information.

What can I do with Tag Aware widgets?

Besides just being plain easier to control a widget, you can use this to control multiple widgets. Here’s some of the types of things you can do:

Note that these exact widgets might not exist yet. But they will!

How Tag Aware widgets work

1 – On your blog service (Blogger, WordPress, etc), start writing a blog post

2 – Switch to HTML mode

3 – Type in widget’s tag

4 – Publish

Where to Learn More

Read about the customization options for Tag Aware widgets, including using rel-tags as supported by Technorati and others.

Widgetbox Knowledgebase » Customizing Widgets