Our Template widgets allow you to easily create a customized widget from your own content. With no coding knowledge necessary, you can create a widget in minutes. You customize which fields you’d like to include in your widget and personalize the text. You can also customize the look and feel of the widget by choosing different images, fonts, stylings, and colors.

Examples of Template widgets include:

• Countdown widgets: Create a countdown to any event
• Slideshow widgets: Upload photos and create a slideshow
• Poll widgets: Choose a question and provide different answer choices to create a poll

Blidgets

Blidgets are specialized widgets that display your blog. Blidgets allow you to turn your feed-based content into a personalized widget that you can share with others. Simply enter in your blog or feed-based address (url) and the Blidget template will convert your content into a Blidget. You can further personalize your Blidget by customizing the look and feel with different fonts, stylings, and colors.

Examples of Blidgets include:

• Blog: Turn your blog or feed into a widget
• Twitter: Turn your Twitter updates or favorites into a widget
• Flickr: Turn your Flickr photostream into a widget
• YouTube: Turn your Youtube videos into a widget

Pro vs. Basic Modes

Our Template widgets and Blidgets have two different modes users can choose from—Basic and Pro. The Pro versions of these widgets come with enhanced features that aren’t available with the basic versions including:

• Additional font and styling choices
• Additional text fields
• Multiple tabs of content for Blidgets
• Uploaded headers and background images
• Ability to hide the “Get Widget” button
• No ads

The basic versions of our Template widgets and Blidgets are available to everyone. Pro versions of our Template widgets and Blidgets require a Pro subscription to create. If you are a Pro subscriber, you can choose to create Basic widgets or Pro widgets. Basic widgets will not require you to use any of your account’s Pro credits. Regardless of whether you create Basic or Pro widgets, Pro subscribers should not see any ads on any widgets created.

Developed Widgets

If you are a developer, or familiar with different coding languages and applications, you can develop your own widget from scratch without a template. Create your own widget from HTML, Flash, or JavaScript. You can also import widgets you have previously developed as Google gadgets. Developed widgets do not offer Basic or Pro modes, and can thus be created by anyone regardless of subscription level. However, Pro subscribers have access to these additional features when developing their own widgets:

• Ability to hide the “Get Widget” button
• No ads
• Premium stats including geo-location data
• Priority review on submittals to our gallery

Facebook Fan Page Apps

These widgets allow you to easily create customized apps for your Facebook Fan Pages with no coding knowledge necessary. Many of our Facebook Fan Page apps are similar to Pro template widgets and Blidgets, but the difference is you create these widgets specifically for your Facebook Fan Pages (Template widgets and Blidgets can only be installed to a personal profile on Facebook). Facebook Fan Page Apps are only available to Publisher Pro and Business Pro users.

Examples of Facebook Fan Page Apps include:

• Blog: Instantly put your company’s blog on your Facebook Fan Page
• Twitter: Easily add your Twitter updates to your Facebook Fan Page
• Gallery: Spotlight articles about your company on your Facebook Fan Page
• Poll: Add a poll to your Facebook Fan Page

Widgets in the Widgetbox Gallery

There are over 170,000 widgets in the Widgetbox gallery covering a wide range of topics and interests, including games, celebrity gossip blogs, news headlines, educational quizzes and many many more.

If you are a developer you can add widgets you’ve developed to our Widgetbox gallery to make them available for users to install. Simply submit your widgets for approval, and you’ll generally receive a decision within 2 business days.

If you are a user, you can install any of the widgets in our gallery to a personal website, Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, or almost any other widget-friendly site. Browse by tag, topic, or featured lists to find fun and useful widgets to install.

Hi there, website owners.

Hello, bloggers.

Welcome, Facebook and MySpace users (and all you other social networkers, too).

Whatever you’re doing on the web – blogging, friending, or doing business – Widgetbox widgets make your site or profile more fun, friendly, and functional.

We have the web’s biggest selection of widgets for every purpose: games, calendars, news feeds, and every species of bling you can imagine.

And we make it easy for you to get those widgets, customize them, and put them into play, with just two clicks. No rocket science (or coding) required.

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 <a rel="wbx-keywords> tag in your blog posts.  For example, you
might make a tag to the word "tech" by blogging this:

<a rel="wbx-keywords" title="tech" />

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 <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/tech" rel="tag">Technology</a>.

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:

<a rel="wbx-keywords" name="srchTrms" title="tech" />

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

1. Install Panel.

   

   Next, a new window launches as Widgetbox installs your widget.

2. Widget Installation.

   

   Now, log in to TypePad.

3. TypePad Login.

   

   Next you will choose what blog you would like to add the widget. (If you only have one blog, you will only have one choice.)

4. Add Sidebar.

   

   Finally, view your widget on your blog (By clicking the “View Weblog” link) and confirm that everything looks ok.

5. View Widget

   

After selecting Blogger as your destination, Widgetbox will prompt you to install the widget onto Blogger.

1. Choose a Blogger Template

   

   Go to your blog’s template tab. The following screenshot shows where your template is.

2. Click on “Add a Page Element” as below.

   

3. Choose “Add to Blog”.

   

   That pops up a window with a bunch of choices. Choose “HTML/JavaScript” by clicking “ADD TO BLOG”.

4. Paste in the HTML snippet that Widgetbox gave you and Save.

   

   Once you have the above panel snippet in your template, you can start putting widgets into your blog posts. When subscribing to a widget, choose the “blog post” option

1. Log in to MySpace.

   

   Next, Widgetbox will confirm that installation has occurred.

2. Install Confirmation.

   

   Now, log in to MySpace in a new tab or window. Go to your profile and make sure your new widget appears correctly.

3. View widget on MySpace.

   

Once you have installed a panel on your site, you can add and reorder widgets with a single click.

You should never need to paste code for a widget into the page ever again.