Top Entrecard Droppers Widget for Wordpress
July 19th, 2008 by Mack
I am embarrassed to say I Google'd this for almost 20 minutes before I realized how stupid I was to make this more complicated that it actually was. In retrospect, this widget is nothing more than an RSS feed provided by Entrecard. I spruced mine up some with nofollow and an image to give it my desired appeal. I will give the complete instructions to do it all and more to fit your needs. Yeah, I chose nofollow for the widget as I post my top droppers at the end of the month. I will discuss the pros and cons of both in my next post this week.
The First Step
The first step is just too simple for text, but you need to copy the rss feed url from you Entrecard statistics page as seen below.
The RSS Widget, Step 2
You need to log into Wordpress admin and find you widgets panel. Next, you need to create a new RSS widget and fill in the proper data.
Now save and arrange your widget where you want it displayed in your sidebar. If you do not want to add nofollow you are done. If you would like to display more than 10 you can set those options also.
Adding Nofollow
This is rather a simple hack also. It does serve the purpose I intended, but it has the drawback for some if you want some RSS feeds to be followed by the SEBS (search engine bots).
Open /wp-includes/widgets.php
Find
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echo "<li><a class='rsswidget' href='$link' title='$desc'>$title</a>{$date}{$summary}{$author}</li>";
Replace with
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echo "<li><a class='rsswidget' href='$link' title='$desc' rel='nofollow'>$title</a>{$date}{$summary}{$author}</li>";
Save and Upload.
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By Turnip on Jul 20, 2008 | Reply
Yeah, It's nothing but an RSS feed, which the instructions have been around for since January. Nobody explained it quite as well as you did though. Especally not the "no-follow" trick. Then one day, someone packaged it, put a spammy backlink on a widget, and Graham fell in love with it and included it in the official E-book. Never mentioning the people that had the idea months earlier.
By Reena on Jul 20, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for sharing this. I think this is another great tool to motivate droppers to drop on our blog.
By Mack on Jul 20, 2008 | Reply
@Turnip I have never actually sat down and read the ebook, so I was unaware. I know I had a tough time finding it in Google and that sort of inspired the post. I like to link my droppers each month, so I had to go nofollow (a few other reasons too)
@Reena You are so correct about motivation and this will be one of my points for my next post.
Thank you both for your meaningful comments.
By Authority Directory on Jul 20, 2008 | Reply
Oh this is just sweet Mack. Great idea!
By Len on Jul 20, 2008 | Reply
Amazon s3 is working again. Thanks for dropping your card on mine. Sorry I can't return the favor, as you seem to have removed your widget thingie?
By Mack on Jul 20, 2008 | Reply
@Len For sure, I added it back and glad they got it up again.
@Bruce Thanks man, you should like my next upcoming post also.
By Kevin Tan on Jul 25, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for sharing this. There're many Entrecard widgets out there both for WordPress and Bloggers but this one is far better than those I've seen.
By Mack on Jul 26, 2008 | Reply
Thanks Kevin, I am considering making an official droppers widget that has a few more features.
By Squeaky on Jul 27, 2008 | Reply
Very nice instructions to install the top ten widget for Entrecard Droppers. Just took a few minutes and works like a champ. Thanks for the cool tip...
By Puneet on Aug 4, 2008 | Reply
agree with wat Reena said ... its a good one to have on our blog and get more from entrecard too