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Widget Connector

The Widget Connector plugin provides a simple way to connect Wikis to widget services on the web.

Features
  • Play videos from Youtube, MySpace Video, Google Video, Episodic, Vimeo, Metacafe, BlipTV and Viddler
  • Click through photo slideshows from Flickr and Skitch
  • Display updates from Twitter and FriendFeed
  • View documents from Slideshare, Sliderocket, Scribd, Google Docs (Presentations)
  • Embed Google Gadgets like calendars, stocks, weather and sports scores.
This plugin includes the following macros:
  • widget - Embeds a widget into a Wiki page.

Provides a simple way to connect Wikis to widget services on the web. The following 'widgets' can be displayed by the Widget Connector:

  • Gadgets: Google Gadgets.
  • Videos: YouTube, MySpace Video, Google Video, Episodic, Vimeo, Metacafe, blip.tv, Viddler.
  • Photos and images: Flickr, Skitch.com.
  • Micro-blogging: Twitter, FriendFeed.
  • Documents and presentations: SlideShare, SlideRocket, Scribd, presentations on Google Docs.

The Code

Google Gadget:

{widget:url=http://www.google.com/ig/adde?synd=open&source=ggyp&moduleurl=www.gadzi.com/gadgets/monkey.xml|width=250}

YouTube Video:

{widget:url=http://www.youtube.com/user/mit?blend=1&ob=4}

Result

Google Gadget:

YouTube Video:

Parameters

Name

Required?

Default

Description

url

(tick)

 

This is the URL provided by the external web site for embedding content from that web site onto another web page.

height

(error)

 

Specify the height of the display, in pixels (px) or as a percentage (%) of the window's height.

width

(error)

 

Specify the width of the display, in pixels (px) or as a percentage (%) of the window's width.