The Read Roll Configurator Lives

Good news for everyone who uses the Reader Roll widget!  As with our world-famous Top 5 Links widget, you can now use a color picker to change its looks and integrate it perfectly into your site's color scheme.  Plus, we've added some additional features to enable you to make it your own:

Change the title: "Recent Readers" not doing it for ya?  How about "My Blog's Most Wanted" or "These People Owe Me Money" or something else clever.  Make it say whatever you like.

Choose whether to show screen name: Want to show more picture and less text?  Turn screen names off and we'll fill the entire row with pictures

Choose full- or half-size pictures: Want to get the same great widget in half the space?  Squeeze all the pictures in half to pack a lot of punch in a little space.  This works especially cool in conjunction with turning off screen names on sites with large communities.

Pick the number of rows and widget width: Fine-tune the size of the Reader Roll layout so that it kicks the most butt possible on your blog or web site.

So get to it!  Go to your MyBlogLog community page and customize a Reader Roll that looks great on your own site.

July 21st Update: It get's even better!  For you techies out there, we've added the CSS info for the Reader Roll widget.  Want to change the cell padding or fonts or type formating?  You'll find the necessary information below the javascript code on your widgets page.  Have fun!

 

Comments

[Kevin]

Looks like you've configured your recent readers roll quite nicely. I'm trying to figure out how to change the font size of the word "Recent Readers". Ideas?

[johnaugust]

Kevin,

To override the TH element CSS in the Reader Role use the following:

body table#MBL_COMM th.mbl_h {font-size:10px;}

[Kevin]

Thanks John, the code worked and looks great on my blog now. On a related note on asthetics, I noticed that some user pictures are wider, which ruins icon only (no screen name) display in the widget. Shouldn't the system automatically limit that?

[John]

Glad the code worked Kevin!

The system currently does limit height and width based on display of full-size or half-size images (48px (WxH) or 24px).

I had a look @ the widget on http://theory.isthereason.com/ and see that the images are all displaying correctly in Safari, Firefox, and IE.

Should you happen across the issue again, I'd greatly appreciate if you could send a print screen to bugs@mybloglog.com.

Thanks,
John

[Nathan Dintenfass]

As if you really needed to take support questions here on the blog, but for some reason my 'half size' pictures don't seem to work.

http://www.venturegeek.com/wordpress/