Monday, August 23, 2010

Showing Delicious bookmarks in your Blogger sidebar

I thought this would be easy, but not so much.  Here are a few options:

1. Delicious linkrolls

Great idea, but this doesn’t seem to work with Blogger; paste the script into http://www.blogger.com/add-widget, and you just get an empty element on your blog… neat.

2. Widgetbox

There are a few widgets that claim to be Delicious feeds, but they all look pants.  And the free version requires you to have a  big fat Widgetbox advert.

3. Blogger’s “Feed” gadget

This is what I went for – it works, and it doesn’t suck too much.

Just add a gadget to your blog, select “Feed” from the list, and put in your URL (e.g. http://www.delicious.com/duncsmith).

One small thing – there seems to be a bug where the feed URL has “count=15” at the end, which doesn’t give you the latest bookmarks.  You need to change this number to match the number of items to show (max = 5).

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