MyBlogLog Widgets for WordPress

MyBlogLog provides plugins for self-hosted wordpress blogs: Recent Reader widget and Just for you widget. They can be downloaded from the links below.

Recent Reader widget

The MyBlogLog Recent Reader widget is available for WordPress blogs (version 2.2 and above) as a WordPress plug-in. Click here to download the latest version.

If you have your blog at wordpress.com, please create a community on MyBlogLog and click the Widgets tab on your site's community page for instructions on how to install our image-based Recent Reader widget.


If you are running an older version of WordPress, please follow the instructions below (screenshot):

  1. Install the Sidebar Widgets plugin from Automattic. Skip this step if you already have it installed.
  2. Download the MyBlogLog widget file: mybloglog_wp_2.zip. Unzip its content into your WP plugins/widgets directory, located at <INSTALL_DIR>/wp-content/plugins/widgets.
  3. Login to your WP admin, click on the "Plugins" tab, look through the list of installed plugins to find the one called "MyBlogLog", and then click on "Activate" to activate the plugin.
  4. Finally, click on "Presentation" tab, then "Sidebar Widgets" subtab. You will see MyBlogLog from the "Available Widgets" list. Drag and drop it to your template sidebar, click on the widget setting and follow the instructions on there to set it up.


For even older versions (self-hosted), since they don't work with the Sidebar Widgets from Automattic above, you will need to add it straight to the sidebar template. This requires a little understanding of HTML editing. Follow the steps below (see screenshot):
  1. Login to your WP admin, click on "Presentation", "Theme Editor", then "Sidebar Template".
  2. Looking at the HTML code of your sidebar, you will see a lot of <ul> and <li> tags. Each tag basically displays one of the items listing on the sidebar. You would want to create one like that for your MyBlogLog widget. So first, go grab your MyBlogLog widget code, enclose it with <li> and </li> tags, pick a spot and paste the code there (see screenshot).
  3. Click the "Update File" button to save. That's all!


Just for you

Just for you widget builds a list of posts from your blog personalized for the visitor to your blog. The widget is available for WordPress blogs (version 2.5 and above) as a WordPress plug-in. Click here to download the latest version.

The plug-in looks at each visitor to your blog and, if they are a cookied MyBlogLog member, looks up the tags attached to that user's profile. Using these tags, Just for You looks into the blog's archive for posts with matching tags or categories and shows a list of matching headlines in a sidebar widget.