Add and manage widgets on your homepage
Published Monday 8th September 2008
- A widget is a block of code, which you can place on your network homepage, and which displays ‘live’ content – advertisements, links, images, news, any a plethora of other media or information.
- Your SocialGO network comes pre-set with some widgets, such as 'Magazine Latest' or 'Latest Forum Posts'
- To control your SocialGO widgets, go to the 'Homepage Widgets' section of your admin centre, accessed via your sidebar, or at http://my.socialgo.com.
- Once inside the 'Homepage Widgets' section, you'll see two columns, looking like this:
- In the left hand column you have your live widgets, i.e. those that can be seen on your homepage.
- In the right hand column, you have inactive widgets, i.e. ones that cannot be seen on your network.
- To make a widget appear on the homepage, simply drag it from the right hand column to the left hand column.
- You'll notice that the widgets often have an 'Edit Widget Options' link in their box.
- By clicking on this button, you can change the name of the widget, or in some cases, the amount of information that the widget displays.
- Don't forget to press 'Change' to save the changes you make to your widget.
- Once you are happy with the way you have edited and rearranged your widgets, you must press 'Submit' to save your settings
- SocialGO also offers the great feature of being able to add custom widgets to your network homepage.
- Sites like www.widgetbox.com offer hundreds of different widgets, and all you need to add these to your network is the JavaScript embed code offered by the widget provider, which will look something like this:
- To make one of these custom widgets appear on your network, drag the 'Custom HTML' widget block from the right hand column to the left hand column.
- Press 'Submit' as soon as you have dragged the 'Custom HTML' box to the left colum.
- Now that the Custom HTML block is safely saved there, you can enter your custom widet code.
- To do this, press 'Edit Widget Options' in the 'Custom HTML' block, and enter your embed code in to the box.
- After you have added your custom widget embed code, press 'Change', and then 'Submit' on the page displaying all your widgets in order to save your settings.
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