I was going through the options I can include in wordpress. I was on wordpress just looking at what if anything else I can add, and I come across Slideshare. Slideshare is an application which enables you to upload and share slideshows like powerpoint presentations, with the benefit of being interactive. Its the new way to send and share presentations. It wasn’t hard to add a presentation.. just go to slideshow.net to get the right code you need for your server and copy and paste it. Take a look at an example of a presentation. (Click on slideshow to activate it). This was an option for me to add from my admin area. WordPress I think are beginning to improve, but its a shame really because by the time I finish this blog, i can’t add anything extra even if there are new features available! I’ve updated some of my pages now to include slideshows like this one below.

List of sites and codes where I can’t add anything to my blog, but can help yours.
Widget box
Iframe code- I couldn’t add the code in here so I turned the code into an image for you to see:

Postcast Plugin
Programming plugins
Plugins and widgets for wordpress Although these widgets are for wordpress, only some wordpress accounts actually allow you to add the widgets through your wp-contents folder which I don’t have!

Throughout my blog, i’ve added in slide presentations which i’ve been able to edit the colour and size of to fit in nicely with the presentation of my blog. I used rocky slideshow but I found even though I had the option to make slideshows, http://www.slide.com gives better choices. I had to register to make an account, upload images and copy the code once I saved my presentation

I’ve tried and tested the available widgets I can use in my sidebar. I tried different options to see the best options. At one point I added and configured all the sidebar widgets available! But I thought my sidebar looked to busy. So I decided to keep the widgets I think are jut right for my blog. I have an option to the amount of ‘text boxes’ which are basically empty text boxes for me to add coding. This sounds good but I’m still limited to what I can add. Prior to the sidear widgets I have got now, I had sonific songspot- a widget that plays songs.

Other sidebar widgets I included but i then decided to remove are:
• Meta (admin area login)
• RSS1 feed (additional option to add more feeds)

Things I added are:

• Drop down list for my categories and archive (only newly introduced)
• Box.net- a widget to upload files and share them easily (had to register and add code)
• Top clicks ( Didn’t need to configure)
• My stats ( Didn’t need to configure)
• Tag cloud (similar to zoom cloud, I selected various display options)

I added a cool widget called box.net. I think wordpress administrators have begun to listen to people on wordpress.com and are understanding the limitations we had!! I’m saying this because I’ve noticed a couple of new features which I can configure and add to my blog..And I’m taking advantage of these features..
Boxfile- in my sidebar menu I made an acount with box.net, uploaded files I want to show and once I registered, box.net generated coding which I copied and pasted into my text box in admin.

Take a look at the songs, images and even word document I’ve uploaded.. I’m happy with this handy tool and if you want any of them, jut click and share!

I just added a screen print of what the process is like just to help you understand more

i added the sidebar widget to my blog incase i get any spam emails that i don’t like!! the option was there for me to add but to activate it, i configured it and selected where in the sidebar i wanted to put it. A handy little tool!

i changed the colours and stye around of my chat box. At first the dimentions of the box was far too big so the whole of my sidebar went a bit pearshaped and started appearing at the bottom of the page. Having changed the size-from logging into my account and resizing, the chat appeared fine. It took me some time getting use to using this widget but havng tested it the chat works fine-as long as i’m signed in so people can talk to me.

i added the chat widget at the bottom of this page. I thought i’d check them out. The option was availabe for me to drag into my side widget and i had to configure the wiget by registering, editing the style and look of the chat box. Once i configured the chat- i made an acount with meebo which is the only way the chat will work, i copied and pasted the code to the text box. This works, but personally i don’t really like the look of it lol.
ah well, its something i’ve tried and works.

The sonific widget was an option already available for me to drop and drag into my sidebar widget. I had to configure the sonific widget by going onto the site signing up, selecting the song i wanted- i can upload as many songs as i want, but I just uploaded this one to check if it works. I had quite a few problems where the actual coding came up and totally changed the alignment of my page when viewed. So i had to delete part of the coding until it worked. The image shows 2 different ways i could include sonific songspots. I tried both ways, but the only one that worked is the sidebar widget (only becauce this was the option from wordpress). The code was produced, and i copied and pasted it in my sidebar widget text box.
Hope this makes sense!

To get this widget and similar ones, go to

i copied the link from mez’s blog, the simple code which allows iframe. Again wordpress has restricted this code from being used on my blog. Worth a try though. I’ve just been looking at my settings on my server if there is anything i can do to to enabe me to add plugins and additional codes etc. But there isn’t. From reading other peoples comments from wordpress, it definately looks like wordpress has restricted certain codes,plugins or any additional widgets from being used.