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Can I brand the blidget for our clients
I bought the pro upgrade. After it gets installed on a web site, can I allow the new installation user to customize the background image - or are they limited to only being able to change size and including summaries and images in the RSS feed content?
Prior to the upgrade, users could at least change the theme color. Now they can't do even that.
The original blidget is installed on http://www.bizactions.com/testpage.cfm I used Get Widget from that page and pasted it into http://www.bizactions.com/testpage2.cfm When I click on the pencil on http://www.bizactions.com/testpage2.cfm my editing choices are limited.
Prior to the upgrade, users could at least change the theme color. Now they can't do even that.
The original blidget is installed on http://www.bizactions.com/testpage.cfm I used Get Widget from that page and pasted it into http://www.bizactions.com/testpage2.cfm When I click on the pencil on http://www.bizactions.com/testpage2.cfm my editing choices are limited.
I’m in trouble if I can't do this
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Inappropriate?Hey there,
You absolutely can allow them to customize themes, but only if you use the basic themes. When on a basic theme, you can check the box that says 'allow users to customize'. This option is not available for custom themes.
Hope this helps!
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Inappropriate?Thanks Dave - My goal however is to put my clients logo on a copy of my blidget. I would do this for them and just provide them the code. If I understand you correctly the only option then is for me to create a new widget for each of my clients and purchase the pro version for every blidget. Is this true?
Since I could easily have 300 to 500 clients that would want this customization, the cost even at only $30 a year would be prohibitive unless I pass it along to them.
I’m worried about my expense
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Inappropriate?Yes, the image is specific to a registration of the widget, not an instance. Additionally, if you're setting up blidgets for hundreds of clients, I'm guessing that they'd each want their own feed as well, which is on a per-widget basis.
Anyhow, the short is that it sounds like each of your clients would need their own blidget, and blidget pro is on a per-widget basis. There are 3 options with the blidget, which are Free for Basic, $3.99/mo. for Pro, for $29.99/yr. for Pro. You can choose whichever tool works best with your business needs.
Also, with the Pro Blidget, there is a twitter-specific content renderer that it looks like you didn't end up using. If you need me to switch your pro to this renderer for you, just let me know.
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Inappropriate?Thanks Dave - What does the twitter-specific content renderer do for me?
I’m apprecitative of your prompt response
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It just gives you a couple extra controls, like a 'follow' button, and it's formatted more specifically for twitter. You can preview it if you want. Just go to our homepage, select the Twitter tab, and enter a twitter username. If you like what you see better than your existing pro blidget, just let me know and I'll switch your existing pro blidget to use that view. -
Inappropriate?Hi Dave,
I want to re-open the original question, about making pre-created blidgets which are branded, but are not a blidget-per-feed, but rather accept the feed url as a parameter.
I want to be able to create a branded blidget, and have my users just enter their feed url, or even better -- click a link which will have the feed as a query string parameter, and it will automatically get into the blidget. All they have left is to choose where to put up the widget.
As I understood, right now it is not possible with blidgets. Is that correct or am I missing something? Would you consider implementing it?
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?Hey Orensol,
You are correct that this is not currently possible with the blidget. The blidget product is really strongly based around being a widget for a fixed feed(s).
What you're describing sounds more like you'd want to have an RSS widget created and registered in the gallery. Although this is doable by plenty of developers out there (applying branding to a generic RSS widget, which has the feed element configurable), the blidget isn't really the product for this.
I hope that this helps to clarify.
