I was surfing through my Analytics page and discovered some wayward searcher stumbled upon my blog in hopes of finding out how to add the eHow widget to WordPress. What they found was my eHow Widget for WordPress plugin. Mea culpa. This post exists just in case another poor soul happens upon my blog while looking for the same information.
First, grab your eHow Widget code here. You need to be logged in for the link to work. Copy everything in the Widget Embed Code box.
Next, open up your WordPress admin panel and move on over to the Widgets menu*. Drag-and-drop the Text option from the Available Widgets pane to the desired sidebar**. A nice, big text box will pop up.
Fill in the title, if you want to, or skip it.
Paste the code from the eHow website into the open, unnamed text area. Click Save.
Open up your blog to see how it looks. It might be too big for the area. That’s OK! Go back to the Widgets menu. Open up that Text widget. Look at the code in there. The eHow Widget follows this pattern
- opening tag
- src=”url”
- width=”xxx”
- height=”xxx”
Adjust the width down to the size of your sidebar, in pixels. Unless you know how wide your sidebar is, you’ll need to do this a few times for trial-and-error. Also, adjust the height (again, in pixels) so all the information displays. Just keep double=quotation marks (“”) around the numbers and you’ll be good to go.
* The Widget menu address is usually http://www.yourblogaddress.com/wp-admin/widgets.php
** You need to be using a widget-ready theme. If you aren’t, you can’t use widgets. Most themes are widget-ready.