WordPress GreetBox Plugin for blogspot and non-wp blogs

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Hello fellow bloggers! For most of the WP – users, WP – GreetBox is not a new play pawn. But, many of my fellowmates use blogspot and other non – WP blogs, and on their special request i googled a bit and tried to figure out some of the best Wp – plugins to be used over blogspot and other non – WP blogs.

For Wp- Users the name is changed to The Blogger Greet Box and it will be poped on your post as follows:

The Blogger Greet Box has the following features:

1. Play / Show a  greeting message to your visitor depending on the referrer URL.
2. Great set of icons for referring url.
3. By default position of greeting message is on top of post, but hey could be inserted any where within the post.
4. Pops some default greet entitled message. If the user hits the URL directly pops out the RSS greet message or respected other greet message from a referrer which is not specified.
5. Ability to remove the message when the user navigates within the same site so we do not keep nagging them with greeting messages.
6. Currently the following referrers are installed.
   - Google
   - Yahoo
   - Digg
   - Stumbleupon

Steps to install the plugin :

Download the following 2 Javascript “js” files and upload on your server.

1) http://cid-db9f90bab5f7f65e.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/TextToBeDisplayedDiv.js
2) http://cid-db9f90bab5f7f65e.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/HideShowDiv.js

Blogspot users can use any free hosting site available. There are plenty of them.

Copy the following code and paste it on your website/blogger template wherever you want the code to appear:

<script src=”/TextToBeDisplayedDiv.js” type=”text/javascript”>
</script>
<div id=”mainDisplayDiv” style=”background:#F8F8FF;border:1px solid  #B6AFA9;display:none”>
<div id=”dynamicContentDisplayed”>
</div>
<script type=”text/javascript”>

// Give your feed url here
var feedURL = “YOUR BLOG FEED URL GOES HERE“;
var dynamicHTMLText = displayRequiredText(feedURL);
document.getElementById(“dynamicContentDisplayed”).innerHTML
= dynamicHTMLText;
</script>
</div>

<script src=”/HideShowDiv.js” type=”text/javascript”>
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
//List your domains where you don’t want to show up. Suppose
//when people navigate within your site and you don’t want to
// show up. This is , separated
var myRestrictedDomainList = “YOUR DOMAIN NAME HERE“;
showHideDiv(myRestrictedDomainList);
</script>

In the above code replace ‘/TextToBeDisplayedDiv.js’ and “/HideShowDiv.js” with the proper URL of these two Javascript files.

Enter your blog’s feed URL and domain name (i.e. the root URL of your blog) at the indicated locations.

I got this intresting article from instantfundas and am thankful to the author of the post for providing such a wonderful article to help many non-Wp bloggers.

You can try this stuff on your blog and please let us know about your experience. Use the comment box for such shares.

Tagged as: Blogger, Blogspot, wordpress