Share Your Clearspring Widgets Into Hosted WordPress.com Blogs
For some time now, we’ve had WordPress.com in the Clearspring share menu. When you clicked the icon and went through the process, it would post a link to the widget in a blog post. This isn’t that exciting. You’ve asked to be able to post an entire widget into a WordPress.com blog and we listened.
After months of work with the great team at Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com), we’re pleased to announce that when you post an ad-free Clearspring widget to a WordPress.com blog it will now show the entire widget inside of a blog post.
For security reasons, WordPress.com restricts users’ ability to post third-party content into WordPress.com blogs. So… if you want to allow your users to post your widgets, Clearspring is one of the only ways to do it.
Blogs always have and continue to be a large eco-system where user share online content. We’re excited to offer to you our community this deeper integration with WordPress.com and their ever growing community. In their July report, they announced they had 812,287,538 pageviews on their 1,102,039 active hosted WordPress.com blogs.
For you widget developers and publishers, the cool thing is you didn’t have to do a darn thing in order to utilize this new capability. We just turned it on. It’s part of our commitment to you to make sharing simple.
If you have any questions or comments, don’t hesitate to drop me a line – justin@clearspring.com
August 20th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
That’s a great start but I need to be able to take the full-wysiwyg editor from wordpress.com and add my additional notes (text, images, etc..) and formatting with my blog post.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
@Randy, I completely agree. I appreciate the feedback. I’ll be taking it to our product group.
August 30th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Good service for WP.com users, but there should be a function to allow widget use via WP own hosted blogs.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:30 pm
@marc, agreed. We’re currently exploring the best way to do this.
October 16th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
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