A widget – aka plugin – is a chunk of Wild Apricot functionality that you can embed – or integrate – into another website. Using a widget, you can embed a Wild Apricot blog on another website.
To embed a widget into another website, you copy the embed code then paste it into the other site's HTML code.
Getting the widget code
To obtain the code you need to embed a Wild Apricot blog on another website, follow these steps:
- Click the Settings menu.
- Within the Integration section, click Widgets code.
- If you added more than one blog gadget to your Wild Apricot site, click the selection button beside Blog and select the blog gadget you want to embed.
- Right click over the code that appears beside the selection button and copy the code to the clipboard.
You can now paste the copied embed code into the HTML code for the page on your other website.
Changing colors and fonts
To customize your embedded Wild Apricot widget so that it appears like a seamless part of your other website, you modify the appearance of the corresponding gadget in your Wild Apricot site. You can control the appearance of the widget by choosing a website theme, customizing the colors and styles, and for more advanced fine-tuning, using CSS customization.
For blog gadgets, you can modify the following elements from the Colors and styles screen:Blog post title
- Gadgets or Gadget styles > Title (Blueprint, Clean Lines, Dark Impact, Fiesta, Firma, Homestead, Showcase, Skyline, Terra, and White Space themes)
- General formatting or Typography > H4, Link
Blog post author
- Blog > Author (Bookshelf, Building Blocks, Clean Lines, Dark Impact, Fiesta, Firma, Kaleidoscope, Homestead, Showcase, Skyline, Terra, Tinted Tiles, Whiteboard, and White Space themes)
- General formatting or Typography > Link
Blog post date and time
- Blog > Date and time (Bookshelf, Building Blocks, Clean Lines, Dark Impact, Fiesta, Firma, Homestead, Kaleidoscope, Showcase, Skyline, Terra, Tinted Tiles, Whiteboard, and White Space themes)
Blog post content
- General formatting or Typography > Text/Normal
Add post, Post, Add Comment, Cancel buttons
- Functional buttons > Normal/Hover (Clean Lines, Dark Impact, Fiesta, White Space themes)
Read more, Comment, Edit, Delete links
- Blog > Links (Building Blocks, Firma, Kaleidoscope, Terra, Tinted Tiles themes)
- General formatting or Typography > Text/Normal, Link
Icons used on mobile version
- Blog > Icons (Clean Lines, Dark Impact, Fiesta, Firma, Homestead, Skyline, Terra, and White Space themes)
Any changes you make will be applied to other gadgets that use the same settings.
