Finally Added a Twitter Widget to the Sidebar

Yeah, I should have done this some time back but.....

Anyway, adding a Twitter Sidebar widget is pretty easy. Just go to the Twitter Developer pages and it will guide you through the process.

If you need to hire someone I'm always available.

Facebook Widget Setup Error (in Pligg).

Well, I thought I had the Freaky Virginia presentation (Theme) tweaked out pretty well. The other night I was adding some RSS feeds to the site and had all four pages (main, Paranormal, UFO, and Misc) open at the same time and was looking at them when I noticed the Facebook Like Box was pointing to the wrong Facebook Page on the 'Misc' page.

Freaky Virginia's main pages run under Pligg CMS. Within Pligg is a Module to place a Facebook 'Like Box' in the Sidebar. I had used that early on then hard coded the like box into the sidebar itself. Somehow I had the module still enabled in that last page. Though the hard coding was there also, the module was overriding the settings and presenting the wrong Facebook page data.

Quick fix? Kill the module. While I was there I removed the calendar code from each page since I never built a calendar for Freaky Virginia and really didn't have time to maintain it myself.

Pinterest Board

You might have been wondering about the Pinterest Board on Freaky Virginia. Pinterest is a great place to share images and promote a website. They also provide a Javascript 'Board Widget' to show off 'Boards' created on Pinterest within your website.

There's a script that needs to be installed and 'a call' to the script that needs to be placed in the code to make the Board Widget appear where you want it.

I'll revisit this subject later to explain why this is a good addition to the site and maybe look over any changes we might make to the 'Board Widget'!

Freaky Virginia runs on Pligg CMS 1.2.2 setup as Multi-Pligg and WordPress with Blogger picking up the technical information side of the site. In other words "Here is where we talk tech stuff".