I was looking for several widgets for my Rock Along Productions blog that allowed you to show the most recent posts and had one or two sentence summaries when I came across Wowzio.com. I liked the widgets so much I decided to share what I found with my fellow bloggers. They are very flexible and customizable to fit into any blog theme and style.
The first thing you do is go to Wowzio.com and you are presented with the main screen, select the type of widget you are looking for:Â Gallery Widget, Slide Show Widget, Live Feed Widget…etc
You are then presented with the screen where you enter your blog URL:
Enter your Blog URL and then click on the continue button.
You are then presented with the Create Widget Screen, where you can select one of six widget types (at the time of this post Wowzio offers six widget types).
These include Panoramic Slideshow, Live Activity, Photo Gallery, Feed Content, Slide Show or Tag Cloud. I am using the Live Activity Widget for 2 of my blogs and the picture below shows the Wanderer Thoughts blog setup for the Live Activity Feed.
After you select your type of feed you are taken to the customization page where you can choose from the following options:
Size & Settings – where you can let the widget autofit into your column, or it can be sized to be a specific size, also you can choose for your widget to be live and update in real time, display image, show border, include referrer…etc
Colors – here you can choose one of the 9 preset color themes, or you can customize the top, background, text, link, header text colors to be whatever you want so it fits in your theme. You can visit my two blogs Justin Germino and Wanderer Thoughts if you want to see the color schemes I crafted.
Wowzio.com obviously competes with Feedjit and other Live Traffic Feed plug-ins for your blog, and the widget is very good. It has more customization than Feedjit, but lacks the “Watch in Real Time” button for you to see a full page view of live traffic. The widget also has a play/pause button at the top where you can stop the scrolling live feed if you want.
I highly recommend checking this widget out or any of the other widgets and see if they will be something useful for your blog.
-Dragon Blogger
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April 24th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
When i click on create widgets now i receive a below message…
i already sent a mail with my blog address but still i am unable to get widgets pls help me
waiting for uy earliest reply
If you would like to install Wowzio widgets on your blog/site, simply write to us at invite [@] wowzio [dot] com, with a pointer to your blog/site. We will hand out 25 invites every 24 hours by email. The reason we are doing this is that we want to make sure that our added capacity is being used in a good way.
If you already have a Wowzio widget on your blog, you can make changes to your widget by simply clicking on the “Grab This” link at the bottom of the Wowzio widget. That will take you to the Wowzio Widget Designer. After you make your changes, you will need to re-install the new html snippet/code.
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April 24th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
I was not aware that they were rationing out now, back when I created that post anyone can just grab and create widgets on the fly.
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