Widget Installation and Downloads Page

On this page you can find all widgets and downloads that I created for Beautiful Beta. You can use all widgets and downloads free of charge, as long as you give credits on your site to Beautiful Beta. All downloads and widgets have been tested for Internet Explorer 6 and Firefox. If you notice any problems or bugs, please report them as a comment.

Javascript sourcefile


Most Beautiful Beta hacks and widgets make use of some javascript-functions. These functions are bundled in a javascript-library, that should be added to your template.
Add the following code to your template's head, just above the </head>-tag:
<script src='http://home.kpn.nl/oosti468/downloads/beautifulbeta.js' type='text/javascript'/>

Or download the file and host it from your own location. Right-click the link, and save the file to your computer.



Picasa Albums Widget


The Picasa Albums Widget displays your public Picasa Albums in your sidebar.
This widget requires that your browser accepts script execution.
Learn how to install and customize this widget, or click the button and use the Click-n-Go Widget Installer to add this widget to your blog.
The coding of the widget was developed by Beautiful Beta.


Recent posts widget
The Recent Posts Widget displays recent posts summaries in your sidebar. You can customize this widget to display the recent posts of any blogger blog that you like, you can customize the number of posts to display, whether or not to display a postsummary and the size of this summary. And you can use a standard styling, or you can define your own CSS styling.
This widget requires that your browser accepts script execution.
Learn how to install and customize this widget, or click the button and use the Click-n-Go Widget Installer to add this widget to your blog.
The coding of the widget was developed by Beautiful Beta and Hackospere.

Recent comments widget


The Recent Comments Widget displays recent comments in your sidebar. You can customize this widget to display the recent comments of any blogger blog that you like, you can customize the number of comments to display, whether or not to display the author and the comment-date, and the size of the comment summary. You can define your own CSS styling to integrate it completely with the styling of your blog.
This widget requires that your browser accepts script execution.
Learn how to install and customize this widget, or click the button to add this widget to your blog.
The coding of this widget was developed by Beautiful Beta and Hackospere.

Search widget
The Search widget allows you to search your blog. It requires no javascript or customization. Just click the button below to install it on your Blog.

Recent Posts Widget for FTP Blogs
The Recent Posts Widget for FTP displays recent posts summaries in the sidebar of your FTP-blog. You can customize this widget in several ways. You can customize the number of posts to display, whether or not to display a postsummary and the size of this summary. And you can define your own CSS styling.
This widget requires that your browser accepts script execution.
Learn how to install and customize this widget, or click the button and use the Click-n-Go Widget Installer to add this widget to your blog.



Weather Report Widget
This is the first installable widget I created, it puts a weather report for Amsterdam on your blog.


Google Calendar Widget
The Google Calendar Widget displays events from your Google Calendar in your sidebar. You can customize this widget to display the events of any public Google Calendar that you like; you can customize the number of events to display, whether or not to display the calendarname, calendardescription and owner, as well as whether or not to display event details. You can style the widget by adding some new classes tom your CSS styling.
This widget requires that your browser accepts script execution.
Learn how to install and customize this widget, or click the button to add this widget to your blog.
The coding of this widget was developed by Beautiful Beta.

Plaxo Pulse Widget
The Plaxo Pulse Widget displays events from your Plaxo Pulse in your sidebar. The widget needs JSON-formatted input, so you first have to Pipe your Plaxo Pulse Feed with Yahoo! Pipes. So first of all, read the installation instructions!
This widget requires that your browser accepts script execution.
Click the button to add this widget to your blog.
The coding of this widget was developed by Beautiful Beta.

Aorta Widget
The Aorta Widget displays a mashup from your Blogger Blog, your Picasa Web Albums, your Flickr Photo's and your YouTube Channel. Read the installation instructions!
This widget requires that your browser accepts script execution.
Click the button to add this widget to your blog.
The coding of this widget was developed by Beautiful Beta.

This is what people say:

NZMum said...

Thank you so much for making customising my blog so simple. I am no expert so cutting, pasting, editing text is brain strain.

Hans said...

Thanks, mum! ;)

Tico Vago said...
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Tico Vago said...

Hey thanks! I have added this Search widget and works great! I also added a second side bar and works great too!

Regards from Costa Rica

Hans said...

@Tico: you are welcome!

Bugman said...

Hans you are doing a terrific work here. I´m using the recent posts and recent comments widgets and both are working perfectly on mi blog. Thanks a lot!

Bosco Sobreira said...

Hi Hans, congratulations for your blog. I have implemented several of your amazing hacks and I think it´s quite cool. As you can see it's a mix of "underwater" template andd your Beautiful Beta CSS.
However, I made some mistake when i was translating it to my language (portuguese). The trouble may be very easy, but I can't find where I've made such changins, as "Older Post" to "Postagens mas antigas", in the Home (Principal)page. The error is in the word "mas", that is actually "mais".
Could you help me, please? Thanks in advance.
Bosco

Southern Writer said...

Very funny. I thought the widget would display the titles of my posts - not yours!

Anonymous said...

Hi,

And recent comments in a private blog, ¿Is't posible?

Aloha!!!

Hans said...

@Southern writer: if you change my blog name to yours, you will get your posttitles. Funny, isn't it?

Manish said...

Hello from India! Just installed your recent posts widget to my blog. basically using most of your hacks on my blog. It looks pretty cool. Thank you so much!

Ryan Marle said...

Hans. I got the recent posts updated and looks...well...Beautiful! Also, I consult with companies for marketing, do you ever do work to set up sites/blogs? Cheers.

Hans said...

@Ryan: thanks for your compliments. No I don't do this for a living, but I am open to all interesting propositions :)

Linda said...

How can I make my own textsize under "Recent posts widget" smaller?

/Linda

Hans said...

@Linda: a few days ago I published an updated version of the Recent Posts Widget, that gives you the opportunity to use custom CSS style definitions for the widget. You can customize the post, the postsummary, and the widgetfooter that way.

dEEPAK said...

thnx for the widgets :)

Hans said...

@deepak: you are welcome!

Pakteh said...

I just try the recent comments widget, thanks.

Silver said...

Any idea how to add recent comments in a private blog?

I am sure your hack works well in a public blog...but I and many others aren't having much luck with a private beta blog.

If it can be done...I am sure you are the one to make it happen.

Cheers!

Hopeing you dicover a solution.

Silver said...

I am sure your hack works well for a public blog. But I am wondering if you know of a solution for a private beta blog? There are many bloggers who would love to see a hack as well.

I am sure if it can be done your will find it.

Cheers!

Hopeing to read a solution on your blog soon!!!!!1

Hans said...

@Silver: I have been asked this question several times, and after some research I now see a way how this could be done. You can set your FTP-blog to publish a atom and rss-feed to your own domain. If your ISP allows PHP-scripting, you can use a standard Ajax-solution to display the rss-feed on your blog as a recent posts element. If your ISP doesn't allow PHP-scripting, you could use this script as a basis to create your own to parse the xml-file. I know this can be done, but my javascript-knowledge is not very deep, so it will take me some time to figure out how to do this.

memori@ said...

Hi Hans!, thanks and were not difficult to me, I leave to my email and you to you the translated shipment, surely that is much spanish and latin's people who want it to have in his blog.
A hug, and my confusion is colossal, it forgot to me my direction of mail is memmoria@gmail.com :P

P.D. What if there am since I have translated it in spanish, I do not believe that there is no problem ;D

stargal said...

hi,

this is great! but actually i really like the previous blogger 'recent comments' and 'recent post'. simple and neat. can u create one something like that?

recent comments is something like this...
(commentor's name):
(post title, linked to post page)

and when we hover our mouse at the post title, a short summary of the comment will appear.

rangga said...

Hans, lots of thanks for the widget I've installed it without any difficulty.
Previously, I use rss-to-javsript.com for recent posts but it slow down my blog, I hope yours won't. Keep the good work

Dr. Mazhar Khan said...

Thanks a ton. I am a css and html illiterate and your step by step explaination is so amazingly simple that i didn't even need to read back twice. wonderful service to all of us. Thanks again.
I have implemented it at:
The Health Information Blog

Aditya Rao said...

s**t!!!
SUPER COOL!!
keep it up..

Hans said...

@All: thanks for using the widget, I am glad you like it!

annie said...

Love your widgets!

Hans said...

Thanks Annie, I like them too! It's judt amazing to discover that I can use javascript to create javascript that creates the translations of xml to ..... yes, javascript so that we can display the feeds using....yes again...javascript. And it works. That's maybe the most amazing part :)

laling said...

you are absolutely genius,Thank you very much.I'm personally will promote your site as well.

Anonymous said...

"Recent comments widget" is cool, but it doesn't work with private blogs, at least I couldn't get it to work with a private blog. I think it only works when you publish a feed, but I didn't confirm that.

Hans said...

@Anonymous: so far I have not discovered on how to get a comments-feed from a FTP-blog. There is a recent-posts widget for FTP-blogs however.

Davide Simonetti said...

Just installed the recent comments widget. Thanks I was looking for something like that. And thanks for making it so easy to install.

DarkUFO said...

Hans, first off thanks for the great Widgets. Would you mind explaining how the Custom CSS works as I'd like to use my own codes etc.

Many thanks in advance.

Hans said...

@Davide: you are welcome!

Hans said...

@DarkUFO: if you install the widget in standard-mode, the code will add some styling to the widget content (for example the italics of the post-summaries, line-breaks, textcolor etc.).
If you install the widget in custom-css mode, no styling will be added, but classes are added instead. You can add style definitions for these classes in the template of your blog, in the skin part.

DarkUFO said...

Thanks Hans, that worked a treat.

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Calvin Lu said...

Thanks Hans... your widget is so simple yet cool! Really appreciate your effort

molly said...

Hi, I've been trying to install the recent comments widget in my blog and it seems that there's no way to get it wrong, but for some reason it's not working for me! Any chance anyone might be able to figure why that is? I'd love to use this widget because it looks great!
Thanks.

Hans said...

@Molly: make sure that your browser allows script execution

molly said...

I use Firefox from a Mac and a PC and I've successfully installed other widgets (like the recent comments thing I have working right now) but they were installed manually. So, I realise this might not necessarily mean that my browser is allowing script execution. But it's in my sidebar... it's just not doing anything. I still can't figure out why. Sorry... thanks in advance for any assistance you might be able to give.

Hans said...

@Molly: the widget-code is present in the pagesource, so installing the widget succeeded. That it doesn't show any comments is caused by an error occurring in the javascript. Maybe this is caused by your feed settings: I noticed that different feed settings can lead to a different use of tags in the json-feed, and then my code crashes (I will repair that ofcourse). So could you check your feedsettings, and post them? And does my Recent Posts Widget work, or do you have problems with that one as well?

molly said...

Thanks again for your help. I've looked at my site feed settings and they were set to "short". I've changed them all to "Full" and that seems to have fixed it! Wonderful. Thank you so much. It looks fantastic!
All the best!

Meeta said...

Hans you are a widget god!! I just added the recent post to my blog. Brilliant. What I noticed is that whenever you make a minor change in an older page it shows up on the recent post widget. I understand that your script take it as a new change therefore a recent post. Is there a way to have the recent posts listed according to the most up to date posts?

Hans said...

@Meeta: brilliant as it might seem, my script code is fairly simple. It takes the posts from the blogfeed, and displays them in the same order as they appear in the feed. That an updated post is displayed at the top of the list is a logical consequence of the nature of a feed: it is a NEWS feed, to keep people updated on changes on your Blog. But I agree that in some cases (for example if you correct a spelling error) it is irritating that the post shows up.

Andrew said...

Hi Hans.
I speak Spanish, I don't speak English much.
Interesting web.
But How I can to show recent comments in Spanish.
Similar a Ramani How.
Bye

webwolf9@gmail.com said...

Dear Hans,
CUSTOMISE button is not visible in Recent posts widget creator.
What else I can do to create Recent Posts list?

matt608 said...

Hi

I have followed your instructions, for adding recent comments and recent posts on my blogger blog, but it just won't work!
If you loook here:
http://beta.blogger.com/add-widget.do
The edit content section cannot be left blank. Am I supposed to manually type in each new post???

thanks
Matt608.blogspot.com

Anonymous said...

Hi. When I install the widget, it pulls 'recent' comments from a post back in March. Why is that? Any help would be appreciated.

Meeta said...

Hi Hans,

I seem to be having the same issue too. It was working perfectly until all of a sudden a few days ago the recent comments starting showing on the widget are from August 2006. Any ideas?

Anonymous said...

Is the recent comments widget EVER going to work again? Where can we get some news on what's happening w/the JSON feeds?

FriedClyde said...

Hi Hans,

I think this is the second visit to your blog. The comments widget leaves a powered by beautifulbeta which would be nice if it wasnt there.

If i want to run a clean looking blog it doesnt allow me to use ur widget. I have no problem giving credit for the hard work with a link back to your blog.

But it would be nice to have a clean widget as well!

Cheers Hans!

संजीत त्रिपाठी said...

hey man, thnx, realy thnx.....

shinji said...

Thanks for the wonderful widgets!looks really good on my blog^_^

Hans said...

Thanks y'all for the compliments!

Jason Gray said...

Thanks for doing all the heavy lifting by creating these widgets we can install automatically. The recent comments widget is excellent.

ms.rani said...

i've added Search widget...i like it so much. thanks a lot Hans :D

tiny london said...

Thank you! I added the "comments" widget and it works a treat!

Happy cook said...

Hi
Thankyou so much.
For days i am trying to add recennt comments in my blog.

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dzerom said...

hi canyou tell me how to post you tube in my blog site on blogspot. thanks twisted of philippines....

Padma said...

thank you so much even i was trying for days to fix this recent comment wodget available from blogger, but yours work in IE too, tx

فوضى عارمة said...

thanx hans!
now i can see comments for old posts too! thats great!!

what i have to notice , that i dont get the post titel but "blog Post" and what i call random number . for exampel "blog post_2162".

i appreciate ur iffurt so another time thank u hans!

Totok Sugianto said...

Thank you.. your widget very usefull.. look at my Blog at http://totoks.blogspot.com

Best Regards

BloggerMom said...

Hans...Love the widget. You are awesome.

Am making a list of useful hacks and these will be n top of the list for sure. Till then, do see them in action on my blog.

Cheers,
BloggerMom
http://abloggermother.blogspoy.com

Danny said...

Thanks for the comments widget. Looks great!

Blog Author Ann Clemmons said...

I'm so glad I found your site, and have been looking for an easy way to install a widget for my recent posts.

However when I tried to install the widget it's not showing up. Can you tell me what I could be doing wrong?

Thanks~

Ann

Dorlana said...

Thanks Hans! I just added the recent comments widget. Thanks for making it so simple. I can't believe I didn't even have to copy and paste!

Penachi said...

Hi! Thanks! You are the light for many of us!!!

Great work!

eLohuki said...

Hans, my recent post and comments not in italic fonts.. i wanna change to italic, how to set up it? And thanks for your template (underwater) but I have edit it. Your tutorial so helpfull for bloggertarianf

Paulie Hollefeld said...

Amazing tips... Danke !!!

I'll be back forever... LOL

Seasons said...
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Seasons said...

Absolutely great and easy to set up :)
Thankyou so much. I set p the recent comments widget in my music blog
http://seasonsinmusic.blogspot.com

-Seasons

MitraD said...

Hi Hans...absolutely splendid widget..both the recent comment and recent post. Have setup the comment one on my blog and it was supereasy!!Thanks

Jared said...

Hey Hans,

Im a student at U of M College Park. Anyways, I have been using this widget platform, Clearspring htp://www.clearspring.com and after looking at your widget, I am sure their service would be quite helpful with your widget development.

Let me know what you think.

Hans said...

@Jared, thanks, I will look into that.

Mac said...

Hey there, Thank you very much...just added the "Recent Comments" widget to my blog. Simple to do and works like a dream...even copied my colours...bloody genius!!!

Thanks
Mac

Azmiel said...

THANK FOR THE WIDGET,

Best Regards

Azmi
Blogger from South Borneo Indonesia Talking about
Money maker, affiliate, motivation, inspiration, Get paid to, Adbrite lovers

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Rickavieves said...

I search this in google and thanks I found this, and Thanks for this widgets, I added in my page comments widgets :-)
happy wednesday!

Sophia said...

Hi,

I've been using the recent comments widget for a while now. Several months ago, I changed my blog from two columns to three columns. Now, when I click on the comment that I want to go to in the list, it won't bring up the right comment. It instead only brings up the right page, but no longer does it bring up the right comment. It's supposed to go to #comment-cxxxxxxx. It used to do that and I really liked it but now it's not working like that anymore. Is there a fix to this?

Sophia said...

By the way, I forgot to say thank you for the widget. In my selfish request I forgot to show gratitude for a widget that I have been very pleased with. :)

sksee said...

Thanks for the excellent "Most Recent Comment" widget. I've placed it in my site.

Rest assured I will be blogging about it soon and include the link for the widget to your site.

Feel free to drop by my site at:

http://4u2invest.blogspot.com/

Comments are welcomed, specially if readers want to test the workability of the widget. :)

Cheers.

sachinKT said...

thanks for Most Recent Comment widget. I'll placed it in my site.
Thhanks !!

xxL said...

recent posts added to dizi izle and bizim evin halleri and and hepsi grubu

MuDiva said...

The pop up window for the most recent posts widget is not showing all of the page.

James Barbosa said...

nice.. post
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Katong Gal said...

Dear Hans
Just downloaded the "recent comments" widget - what a breeze to install! Thanks so much.

John said...

I can only get the widget to display 25 comments even though I specify more. Is that something to do with my feed settings? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Outside My Brain said...

That is so great - Thank you so much! Instalation could not have been any easier.

-D- said...

RC. I was searching for something like this, i just have a word to say,Excellent!
Well, two words, also, thanks.

Azl Alarcon said...

thanks a lot for this widget!

N.P said...

Hi, do you have the full javascript of the 'recent post' widget to publish or not, please? I ask you this help because when I host yours on my googlepages (http://xxx.googlepages.com/reccent-post.js) to avoid bandwidth limit, my blog cant recognize it.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,
epayvn.info blog

arina1992 said...

I had already added a search box for my blog. Is there any way I can add a search box for my friend's blog in my blog?

রাশেদ said...

Thanks a lot.

Tony said...

I'm trying to add the recent post widget to my blog on blogger and it's totally not working. HELP!! I don't understand what is wrong, cuz I'm doing exactly what it says to do. Please help me!

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Anonymous said...

Hi! Any idea on how to add Recent Comments for private blogs? Thanks!

Mike Newman said...

my recent posts widget is not working either.

baseballhandyman.blogspot.com

jellybelly*jellybrain said...

Hello - how long does it take for it to pull up and display recent comments, because it doesn't seem to be working on my blog?
Cheers!

admin said...

thanks a lot your information.

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vaibhav said...

Thanks for sharing!

donya kewarasan said...

So cool, n how long u sit to make a beatiful idea like that, thank you for your hardcoding.

affiliasidalamdaftar said...

thanks nice info

火星机器人小柯 said...

very good,thank you!

Altair said...

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.:: AmRMrX ::. said...

thanxxx alot

Hunain Raza said...

thanks man its really helpful

Good Riddance said...

I'm using the recent comments...thanks a lot! and I'm still finding more...Thanks gain for the help!

d|n said...

tq..i appreciate it

ms.know all said...

hi thanx for all the information,i cant paste the calender widget.

ArdianZzZ said...

nice work!

Vijay said...

Great work dude!! Firstly I added Google's default search widget. It doesn't search the items in my blog. Later I tried many but ended searching for Search widget with your help. Thanks a lot!!

محمد طارق راحیل said...

thanks...............

Stelian Andrei said...

A social bookmarking widget that I've made can be found at this address. Let me know if anyone finds it useful.

Marion said...

Hi there,

I'm so sad the Calendar widget didn;t work with me! it shows up on the blog but the content is empty...
I also noticed that the calendar ID is my actual email address linked to the calendar.. hope this is not the problem

Please kindly help!

thanks
Marion

actressadda.com said...

nice widget.. thank you admin

Arifin said...

It's really really interesting widget.