The document discusses using the WordPress HTML Text Widget to build extra features. It defines the widget and provides examples of how to add social buttons, music playlists from SoundCloud, Flickr galleries, and YouTube videos by copying the embed code and pasting it into the widget. Tips are provided on finding free icons and getting embed codes from sites like Flickr, SoundCloud and YouTube.

1. 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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Agenda
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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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1.2. 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 with
ONLY 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 - Flickr
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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 - Flickr
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 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 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 - YouTube
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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 & Notes
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 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. Conclusion
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 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 presenter
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Anh Thien (Alice Ng.)
Web Developer, WordPress Enthusiast
Reach me at: thecoder2013@gmail.com
Another Project I’m working on:
HTML5 Music Playlist