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June 1, 2010 By Andy Traub

How to add Google Reader list to your web site

Google Reader is one of the most powerful ways to consume content published via RSS feeds.  Reader allows you to post a folder of your RSS feeds in a handy widget.  Here’s how to embed a widget of your starred articles.  You can follow the same process for embedding any folder in your Reader account.

Here’s a messy view of my Google Reader page:

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– Embedding a list of your starred articles only works if you have “Starred” an article in your Google Reader (duh) – you can see the starred article in Engadget about the iPhone 4’s case.
– Click on “Settings” on the top right corner of your Google Reader page
– Click on “Reader Settings”
– Click on “Folders and Tags”
– Click on “add a clip to your site”

add a clip

– The window below will pop up. You can customize the color of your Google Reader widget as well as the title, # of items displayed and notes you add in your reader account (didn’t know you could add notes to your articles in Google Reader did you?!

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– Highlight the code by clicking inside the code and hitting CTRL + A (or Command + A on a Mac).  Copy the text by hitting CTRL + C (or Command + C on a Mac).
– I prefer to put the widget in the sidebar of my WordPress Blog.  If you use WordPress you should go to your Dashboard – Appearance – Widgets – Text Widget
– Here’s the text widget with the code pasted in (Use CTRL + V to paste the code you copied earlier using CTRL + C).

widget

– Here’s the final widget in my sidebar with the “iPhone 4’s out case…” article that I starred.  Remember that you can do the same thing with any folder you set up in your Google Reader account.

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– Let me know if that helped or if you have any other questions about embedding a Google Reader widget in your (WordPress) sidebar.

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