Adding MyBlogLog Widget To A WordPress Blog

You probably have seen the MyBlogLog widget on a few blogs. It has pictures of the latest visitors of the blog shown on the sidebar. What is MyBlogLog? Taken from the MyBlogLog About page: “MyBlogLog enables you to take advantage of your existing presence on the Web and ties it into communities of like-minded readers and authors to add context to the conversations in which you take part.”

Follow the steps in this to add the MyBlogLog widget to your .

If you have already have the MyBloLog widget plugin installed, start at step #3.

If its already activated start on step #4.

  1. Join MyBlogLog at www.mybloglog.com
  2. Download and install the correct widget for a self-hosted WordPress blog here www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/com_widget_wp.php Instructions are on the above URL. Basically just install the widget like like other .
  3. Within the , go to Plugins and activate the MyBlogLog widget.
  4. Click Presentation, Widgets and drag the MyBlogLog widget from the Available Widget area into the sidebar.
  5. Click the little box on the right side of the and click the link in it to get the code for your blog to place into the widget.
  6. The URL will take you back to the main MyBlogLog site, login and look on the bottom right for the green “Get This Widget” link.
  7. You can create a custom color widget to compliment your blog and then click “Preview And Get Code” .
  8. Copy the code and now go back to your blog and paste the code into the MyBlogLog widget and click Save Changes.

If everything is correct you will start seeing your recent MyBlogLog member visitors showing up in your sidebar.

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