After hours of googling and reading FAQs , I had to finally bend my back, look up at the same old ceiling and say WTF, when I figured out that wordpress doesn’t support simple java widgets like shelfari . So is it possible ???

Yes, but not exactly the way I wanted it. And I hope many would have already noticed that I nearly succeeded (if not then tilt your  eyes  30° to the right and you would notice my shelfari widget right there ). Even though this is not an exact web2.0 version, still it would suffice for the time being, I hope …

 

Now how to do it ? :-

You will literally bang your head when you learn this. Its quite simple. 

Step 1: Go to your shelfari home page, give a print screen and get a snap shot of your shelf. ( edit it the way you like it ).

Step 2: Upload the picture to any website ( flickr, orkut or your myspace ) and note the link reference to the uploaded picture.

Step 3: In the wordpress text widget paste this HTML code (edit the links) :

<ul><li><a
href=”http:// xxxxxxxx (your shelf link)”> SHELFARI <img border=”0″ src=”http:// yyyyyyy (your uploaded photo link)”> width=”140″ height=”200″>
</a></li></ul>

Step 4: Save changes and you have your temporary shelfari widget, ready to use.

Note : make sure you give proper URLs in step 3. Also you can use gif instead of jpg( you can easily create one using online editors. Thus you have multiple jpg’s and can show many books in your small widget). Also you can similarly link to any other website where you want to link a page to an image.

Its back to basic HTML.