How To Make A Recent Comments I (Feed Widget)

Two-way communication between the owners of a site, especially blogs, with their visitor are one of the most important thing for the development of the sites. In addition to ongoing the relationships with their visitors, the owners of the sites/blogs can digg up the information about strenghts and weaknesses of their sites, what are the visitors like and dislike, criticisms and suggestion and much more.

One of the way to building two-way communication within a site is to provide a visitors comments facilities. Almost all of the sites/blogs based on CMS like Blogger, Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Mambo. already have comments facilities for the visitors by defaults.

But the problem is... Along with increasing the number of articles made, it's rather difficult for the owner of sites to control (read and answer) because the location of the scattered comments in various articles that have been made.

The difficulty in controlling visitors comments that spread in various articles can be overcome by "Recent Comments" facilities. This Recent Comments will show up the last comments by the visitors in an article, hence the blog owner will soon find out that there are new comments in their articles, so that they can make a follow up.

Go to your Dashboard >> click Settings of your Blog >> click Site Feed. You should set the “Blog Comment Feed” and “Per-Post Comment Feeds” to either “Short” or “Full”. Do not choose “None”. Then Save the Settings.   

 

Next Go back to Layout >> Page Elements >> Add a Gadget in your sidebar, select “Feed”. You will be prompted to enter a Feed URL.

 

There are two Feed URL we can used by default, you can choose one of them.

Atom Feed for the blog commnets like this: 

http://manage4widget.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default

 or RSS Feed as Blog Comments as follows :

http://manage4widget.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=rss

 

Please replace http://manage4widget.blogspot.com with yours. After finished click Continue

 Next, You can set "how to display" your  recent comment. You can named your Recent Comments by insert the Title column, Setting how much last comment you want to show up (5 by default). You can also choose to displayed the dates and name of the authors or not. When you are satisfied with the setting, click to Save the Changes.
You still can set the position of your recent comments by drag and drop the widget to the relevant part of your template and Save the Template.  

New Facebook Connect Widgets!

You may have already seen that Facebook announced their plans to “make the web more social”. Along with these plans, they also announced that they will be making various Facebook features available on other websites. Well, Webs is proud to announce that we will be making these features available on your sites, today!

The widgets available now are:

Comment Box

This widget allows your users to post comments on your site. These comments will then show up on their Facebook News Feed, as well as their friends’ News Feed.

Recent Activity

The Activity Feed displays the most interesting recent activity taking place on your site. Since the content is hosted by Facebook, the widget can display personalized content whether or not the user has logged into your site.

Fan Page Box

The Like Box enables Facebook Page owners to attract and gain Likes from their own website. The Like Box enables users to:

• See how many users already like this page, and which of their friends like it too
• Read recent posts from the page
• Like the page with one click, without needing to visit the page

Like Button

Adds a like button to your page that will count “likes” and shares to Facebook. Your users will “like” pages on your site and their friends’ on Facebook will be able to see this and visit your site as well.

What do I need to get these widgets?

Some of these widgets will require Facebook Connect. If you don’t already have it, this is just another reason to get it. Not only is it easy to set up, but along with these widgets, creates a powerful social presence for your website. With the massive community of Facebook, features like these can drastically increase the exposure and traffic to your site.

Where do I get these widgets?

All of these widgets can be found in the Widget Bank.

1. Go to a blank page.
2. Click “Addons” in the toolbar. This opens the widget bank.
3. Click on the “Facebook Connect” tab.
4. Choose the Facebook Widget that you want, and add it instantly to your page!

These great new features are a must for your site, and are available for you right now. Remember, for some of these widgets you will need to have Facebook Connect on your site. Grab these today and unlock a host of new social functionality for your site.

Happy Site Building!

The Webs Team

what is a widget ?

A widget is a independent application that can be embedded into third party sites by any owner  on a page where they have rights of .  Widgets are fun, engaging, and useful applications that allow users to turn personal content into dynamic web applications. That can be shared on just about any website. For example, a "Followers  Widget" could report who follow to blog or website. Should you want to put that widget on your own twitter  profile, you could do this by copying and pasting the embed code into your profile on twitter. Other terms of widget are gadget, badge, module, webjit, capsule, snippet, mini, flake, application, etc.

To understand more, follow this explanation:

Widget program is run by a website, example widget.com.  you have a blog, say blog.com. Then you copy the widget code from widget.com and plug in blog.com. Now, the process of the widget itself is run in widget.com, but when you access blog.com. You'll see the output from processes running in widget.com in blog.com page.

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