Wed, 11/04/2009 - 12:36PM by sabs
Although OnSugar allows you to upload MP3s to your blog -- just use the audio post type -- I get a lot of emails from folks who want to add songs to their sidebar. While I personally don't recommend loud music that plays automatically, I do love the idea of adding a playlist to your site. It's a fun way to express yourself and it's easy too.
To add music to your sidebar, all you have to do is add some code into a widget. I've gone through some of the options out there, and have rounded up a selection of services for you to try. There's a ton of folks creating music widgets, so if you've got one you like, share it with us below.
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Thu, 02/26/2009 - 3:39PM by sabs
We noticed that the most popular type of widget happened to be a list of sites folks love (aka a Blogroll). Now you can easily create lists of your favorite sites or links with our new Blogroll Widget. You can add as many blogrolls as you like and give them different names (Blogs I Love, Blogs I Secretly Love But Pretend To Hate, etc.)
To do so go to "Widgets" in the dropdown menu and find the "Blogroll" module in the left hand column. Click on "Blogroll" and another box will pop open where you can begin creating your list. Title your blogroll (you can name it anything you'd like), and then begin adding links. Add a name, url and then click the "Add Link" button for each site added. To rearrange them, drag the items in the right column up and down until they are in the correct order. Once you're done be sure to click the "Save Options" button at the bottom.
What are you waiting for? Go give it a try!
Fri, 10/24/2008 - 10:47AM by sabs
You asked, we built. It's now easy to publish and manage two widget sidebars on your OnSugar blog. To check it out, go to your widget management page. You'll notice there are two column under the active tab. Toggle between the two to add widgets to each.
There are currently seven featured themes that work with the new three column format, but we’re adding more all the time. Have a three column theme you'd like to see OnSugar? Let me know.
Fri, 09/26/2008 - 1:17PM by sabs
Thanks to everyone who's given us such great feedback. We're planning to implement bug fixes and add new features each week. If there's something you'd like to see, or a problem that you've encountered, let us know. We really do like hearing what you think.
Here's the rundown of our latest release:
- If you've been looking for an easy way for readers to subscribe to your blog feed, use the Your RSS Feed Widget. We've also placed an RSS feed link in the footer of all featured themes.
- We added a fast link to access all of your entries of a certain post type. Go to your site and add "/POSTTYPE" to the end of your blog url. For example, if you wanted to see all quote posts on Fashionologie, you'd type http://www.fashionologie.com/quotes . (Just make sure the post type is plural: texts, galleries, polls, quizes, quotes, links, chats, videos, audios).
- You can also filter post types by tag. Go to your site and add /POSTTYPE/tags/YOURTAG after your blog url. Example: http://lisaandbrian.onsugar.com/galleries/tag/wedding
- Finally, we created a Sites I Follow Widget that displays the sites you follow. Now your friends know which sites you're checking out.
Want us to add something sooner? Drop us a line! The more people who ask for something, the higher up the priority list it goes, so let us know what you're looking for.