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DeeDee - Kupps

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Wordpress blog & Formspring
« on: 24 July 2011, 08:27:05 am »
Hi

Just a quick question - Anyone know how to link Formspring to a Wordpress Blog? I can't find a widget for it & looked it up on the Wordpress Help section & I still need Help! Help!

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janitor

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Re: Wordpress blog & Formspring
« Reply #1 on: 24 July 2011, 09:12:38 am »
I dont use Formspring myself but will this widget do it?

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/formspringme-widget/
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Re: Wordpress blog & Formspring
« Reply #2 on: 24 July 2011, 06:58:25 pm »
Can you explain exactly what you want to do? I'm not sure if you're thinking about posting your formspring answers on wordpress or getting people to ask questions from your blog.
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DeeDee - Kupps

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Re: Wordpress blog & Formspring
« Reply #3 on: 24 July 2011, 09:35:35 pm »
Hi

Sorry - I wish to be able to answer peoples questions.

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amy

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Re: Wordpress blog & Formspring
« Reply #4 on: 25 July 2011, 12:18:57 am »
If you want your questions and answers to appear in the actual main body of your blog, you can connect them by signing into your Formspring, going to Settings (top right) and then Services (left hand menu) where you will find a whatsit that says 'Connect with Wordpress' - from what I can see you just fill in your blog's URL and your login details and it should be automatic.

I don't do this because I don't want random questions cluttering up my blog and bumping the proper stuff, so if you decide you would rather have it separate you can get the Formspring Widget from Settings>Goodies and just cut and paste it into a text box on your sidebar; I have an RSS feed with the answers just underneath which you do exactly the same way - you can tinker away with it forever.

If it sounds complicated, honestly its not - I'm a complete Luddite and I managed it OK  :).
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Re: Wordpress blog & Formspring
« Reply #5 on: 25 July 2011, 09:28:53 am »
This may just be me not caring about Formspring, but if you want to answer questions on your blog, why not just enable comments to your posts (having ensured that you don't publish anything by other people without you approving it first)?
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Re: Wordpress blog & Formspring
« Reply #6 on: 25 July 2011, 10:06:55 am »
Quote from: amy on 25 July 2011, 12:18:57 am
If it sounds complicated, honestly its not - I'm a complete Luddite and I managed it OK  :).

One of these days, Amy, you're going to have to admit that you're actually really good at this technical stuff. ;D
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Re: Wordpress blog & Formspring
« Reply #7 on: 25 July 2011, 05:44:27 pm »
Quote from: EmilyJones on 25 July 2011, 10:06:55 am
One of these days, Amy, you're going to have to admit that you're actually really good at this technical stuff. ;D

It took me about a year to figure out how to do it, though. It took me two full days to work out how to make a picture in the sidebar  ;D.

Quote from: xw5 on 25 July 2011, 09:28:53 am
This may just be me not caring about Formspring, but if you want to answer questions on your blog, why not just enable comments to your posts (having ensured that you don't publish anything by other people without you approving it first)?

I think the appeal of Formspring for people is that they don't have to include anything even remotely identifying; with blog comments you do have to enter an email address which the person whose blog it is will see. I get a lot more Formspring questions than I do blog comments.
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Re: Wordpress blog & Formspring
« Reply #8 on: 25 July 2011, 06:05:10 pm »
I dunno about wordpress.com hosted ones, but you can set WordPress blogs to accept comments without the person (or bot!) leaving a name or email address.

Untick: Dashboard / Settings / Discussion / Comment author must fill out name and e-mail

.. and make sure you either have an anti-spam plugin or you have to approve comments before anyone sees them. Or, preferably, both (the former will cut down how much work you have to do for the latter).
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Re: Wordpress blog & Formspring
« Reply #9 on: 25 July 2011, 11:41:23 pm »
Quote from: xw5 on 25 July 2011, 09:28:53 am
This may just be me not caring about Formspring, but if you want to answer questions on your blog, why not just enable comments to your posts (having ensured that you don't publish anything by other people without you approving it first)?
For me, it's because Formspring is a Thing and probably encourages people to post more than just saying "ask me stuff" would. I use the questions as inspiration to post because after years and years of writing personal blogs I just don't think of things I want to blog any more.
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DeeDee - Kupps

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Re: Wordpress blog & Formspring
« Reply #10 on: 26 July 2011, 08:00:49 am »
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This may just be me not caring about Formspring, but if you want to answer questions on your blog, why not just enable comments to your posts (having ensured that you don't publish anything by other people without you approving it first)?

Yes I like form spring because people can ask without feeling exposed, also because it is linked to my twitter. If I can then link it to my blog, for me I feel I am reaching out by networking in the areas I feel best suits my working situation.

Thanks Amy for all the advice, I have done what you suggested, however for some reason it is not working? I tried putting my Formspring HTML code into a text/HTML widget, & all I got on my main blog was the HTML code - lol?
I then tried putting it to a RSS feed - & when I saved it I rather got just a link to my Formspring profile or a error message? I am unsure what I am doing wrong, but I will try again today to sort it out - fingers crossed! Could I ask just one thing, what RSS feed widget are you using Amy, as there is multiple to choose from & unsure what one I should be concentrating on?

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Re: Wordpress blog & Formspring
« Reply #11 on: 26 July 2011, 08:15:09 am »
To have the Formspring questions as the main part of your blog you don't use the code:

Quote from: amy on 25 July 2011, 12:18:57 am
If you want your questions and answers to appear in the actual main body of your blog, you can connect them by signing into your Formspring, going to Settings (top right) and then Services (left hand menu) where you will find a whatsit that says 'Connect with Wordpress' - from what I can see you just fill in your blog's URL and your login details and it should be automatic.

As for different kinds of RSS feed, apologies but I don't even really know what one is or what the name means, just that it's the orange thing that updates itself. If there's different kinds that's the first I've heard and I can't investigate because I'm on my BlackBerry but I'm sure somebody will know :).
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Re: Wordpress blog & Formspring
« Reply #12 on: 26 July 2011, 05:06:06 pm »
Quote from: DeeDee - Kupps on 26 July 2011, 08:00:49 am

Thanks Amy for all the advice, I have done what you suggested, however for some reason it is not working? I tried putting my Formspring HTML code into a text/HTML widget, & all I got on my main blog was the HTML code - lol?

Sorry if I've misunderstood, but instead of using a widget, when editing the page/post in Wordpress, can you not just click where it says 'HTML' on right next to 'visual' and enter the Formspring code into there?
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Re: Wordpress blog & Formspring
« Reply #13 on: 26 July 2011, 06:40:15 pm »
Quote from: April on 26 July 2011, 05:06:06 pm
Quote from: DeeDee - Kupps on 26 July 2011, 08:00:49 am

Thanks Amy for all the advice, I have done what you suggested, however for some reason it is not working? I tried putting my Formspring HTML code into a text/HTML widget, & all I got on my main blog was the HTML code - lol?

Sorry if I've misunderstood, but instead of using a widget, when editing the page/post in Wordpress, can you not just click where it says 'HTML' on right next to 'visual' and enter the Formspring code into there?

You can, but the widget just gives you the empty box that people can type the questions into - I think what Dee Dee wants is for the actual content to make up part of her blog when she answers questions, so she needs the Share with Wordpress thing so all the questions and answers are published as if they were blog material.
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Re: Wordpress blog & Formspring
« Reply #14 on: 28 July 2011, 08:57:31 pm »
Quote from: DeeDee - Kupps on 24 July 2011, 08:27:05 am
Hi

Just a quick question - Anyone know how to link Formspring to a Wordpress Blog? I can't find a widget for it & looked it up on the Wordpress Help section & I still need Help! Help!

Cheers

Just wondering if you managed to do this, DeeDee?  If so, can you share?

I want the 'ask any question' box to appear on my (WordPress) blog, but despite following all the advice given here, the box won't appear.  I've done the 'connect with WordPress' thing and nothing happened.  So then I copied and pasted the html into a text widget, but it wouldn't accept it, apparently because the html starts and ends with 'iframe' which is not allowed by WordPress!  But I have seen this Formspring question box on other ladies' WordPress sites, so there must be some way of doing it.

Can anyone help?
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