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Using the WordPress HTML Text Widget To Build Some Extra Things

Presented by:

Anh Thien (Alice Ng.)Web Developer, WordPress Enthusiast

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AgendaI WordPress

1. HTML Text Widget – What is it?

1.1. Definition

1.2. Its Applications

2. Building some extra things

2.2. Adding your favorites: Music Playlist, Flickr, YouTube

2.1. Building your own Social Buttons

4. Conclusion

3. Suggestion & Notes

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1. HTML TEXT WIDGET

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1.1. HTML Text Widget – What is it?

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HTML Text Widget

HTML = HyperLink Text Markup Language, is used for creating Website or Web Application.

It has its own syntax (code) to instruct the Web Browser to “draw” Web Interface, or to implement some commands.

HTML is the Fundamental for any Web Technology (Both ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, JSP … “understand” HTML codes)

HTML codes are easy to learn and work!

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1.1. HTML Text Widget – What is it?

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HTML Text Widget

WordPress offers users this Text Widget for making their own extra things (e.g: Social Link Buttons, Favorite Music Playlist, YouTube, Flickr, …)

Just write simple HTML codes, then enjoy!

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1. HTML TEXT WIDGET

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1.2. HTML Text Widget – Some Applications

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Live Action

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1. Login your WordPress Site

2. Go to your Admin’s Dashboard

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Admin Dashboard

3. Scroll to “Appearance”

4. Select “Widgets”

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5. Seek for “Text Widget”

6. Choose this Text Widget to your side bar

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7. Write or Paste your HTML codes here …

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2. Building some extra things

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2.1. Building your own Social Buttons

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We can create this easily withONLY 2 LINES of HTML code

(for each Social Button)

To hold our Social Link using HTML tag <a>

To show visitors Social Icon to click on using HTML tag <img>

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2.1. Building your own Social Buttons (cont’d)

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Our “recipe”:

For the tag <a>

<a href=“your_web_address” target=“_Blank” title=“your_title” >

Put some text or image here …

</a>

a: HTML tag to “anchor” our Link

href: syntax for the Web Browser know where our Link refers

target=“_Blank”: open New Window for a Web page

title: to show visitors “prompt” when they hover their mouse on our Social Button (eg.: “We are on Facebook”)

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2.1. Building your own Social Buttons (cont’d)

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Our “recipe” (cont’d):

For the tag <img>

< img src=“your_image_link” width=“80px” alt=“your_image_here” >

width: the “breadth” attribute, in “pixel”

alt: Text represents when the image is lost or cannot be loaded

src: to show the Path of stored image on Web Server

img: HTML tag to show our image

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2.1. Building your own Social Buttons (cont’d)

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Live codes:

For Facebook:

<a href=“http://www.facebook.com/your_page” target=“_Blank” title=“I’m on Facebook” >

We will have the tag <a> () nests the tag <img> ()

</a><img src=“fb_icon_link” width=“80px” alt=“fb_icon_here”>

&nbsp; To draw a “space” between each Social Button

/* Do the same for other Social Buttons (Twitter, Google Plus, etc.) */

/* There are many FREE Social Icons on the Internet to “grab” Link & enjoy */

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Choose FREE & Beautiful Social Icons

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1. Go to “search”

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Choose FREE & Beautiful Social Icons

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2. Image Result

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Choose FREE & Beautiful Social Icons

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3. Pick a Free Icon & Grab its Link (Right Click)

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Choose FREE & Beautiful Social Icons

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4. Choose the Link & Paste it to your < img src = “…”

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Social Buttons – Live Demo

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Let’s visit this WordPress Site:

http://applefantips.wordpress.com

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2. Building some extra things (cont’d)

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2.2. Adding your favorites - Music Playlist

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WordPress has been

Partner with

To offer users the

Music feature for FREE (with limit)

(*) The SoundCloud FREE offer is limited to 2 hours of Total Song Duration

All things we need are just Sign In (or Sign up) SoundCloud Create or Select the Set of Songs we like, then SoundCloud will give us the HTML Generated Code to embed into our WordPress

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1. Go to SoundCloud

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2. Search for a playlist

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3. Hit “Share”

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Pick the “Embed” Tab

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4. In the “Embed” tab, scroll down & Expand the Options

5. Pick the HTML Generated Code for WordPress

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6. Paste it to your Text Widget

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All done!

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Music Playlist – Live Demo

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Let’s visit this WordPress Site:

http://mywpblogdemo.wordpress.com

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2. Building some extra things (cont’d)

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2.2. Adding your favorites - FlickrI WordPress

Flickr is the Large & FREE online sharing Photo service

of Yahoo!

We can “embed” our favorite Flickr Gallery by the 2 HTML codes

To hold our favorite Gallery Link using HTML tag <a>

To show visitors the Cover Photo to click on using HTML tag <img>

/* Do the same as the above section (2.1) “Building your own Social Buttons” */

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2.2. Adding your favorites - FlickrI WordPress

Live codes:

<a href=“Flickr_Gallery_Link” target=“_Blank”>

</a>

<img src=“Cover_Photo_link” width=“200px”>

Next, we will have some “snapshots” to show how to “catch” the 2 links above easily.

Let’s begin!

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1. Go to Flickr

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2. Search a Flickr photo to add to the Favorite Gallery

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3. Pick a Flickr photo to add to the Favorite Gallery

Remember to “like” - to encourage its photographer

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4. Go to the your Flickr Gallery

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5. Choose the “Light box” View

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6. Grab the Light Box Link below, to add to <a href=“ …”

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7. Choose a Cover Photo to display on WordPress

(For example, we select this “Red Leave” to be our Cover Photo)

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8. Grab its Link (Right Click), to add to <img src=“ …”

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9. We will have the Full & Simple HTML codes (<a> nests <img>)

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The Result

When we click on the Cover Photo, it will direct us to the “Image Slide Show”

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“Image Slide Show”

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2. Building some extra things (cont’d)

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2.2. Adding your favorites - YouTubeI WordPress

WordPress allowed users to add YouTube Video or YouTube Playlist to any WordPress Site.

Just “Pick” a YouTube Video or YouTube Playlist you love, then paste their generated codes to WordPress

(*) WordPress may also correct that code, but it still displays properly the embedded YouTube Videos.

LIVE ACTION

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1. Go to YouTube & find your favorite playlist

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2. Hit “Share”, then choose “Embed”

Share this

Embed this

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Paste that generated code to your HTML Text Widget.

See what’s different?

(*) WordPress has corrected it, but it’s still OK

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Flickr, YouTube – Live Demo

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Let’s visit this WordPress Site:

http://lukhachquan.wordpress.com

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3. Suggestion & Notes

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3. Suggestion & NotesI WordPress

Wordpress HTML Text Widget for FREE Site only accepts HTML tags (Free Wordpress sites are recognized as: sitename.wordpress.com)

If you want to do more with JavaScripts (e.g.: to run AdsWord in Wordpress HTML Text Widget), you need a Self – Hosted Wordpress Site (that’s recognized as yoursite.com, etc.)

YouTube, SoundCloud … are allowed to embed into WordPress sites, while the others are not. So, the 2 HTML Codes which <a> nests <img> will help you build your own things with HTML Text Widget.

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4. Conclusion

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4. ConclusionI WordPress

All Demos above just show us that, with WordPress HTML Text Widget, we can do by ourselves many things we want.

Visit my site to discover more:http://anhnguyen88.wordpress.com

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THANK YOU!

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Appendix: About the presenterI WordPress

Anh Thien (Alice Ng.)

Web Developer, WordPress Enthusiast

Reach me at: thecoder2013@gmail.com

Another Project I’m working on:HTML5 Music Playlist