I’m interrupting my special hulk-theme week to plead to the powers that be at WordPress: Please, please, please work out the technology, so I can raise money for the causes I cherish through the ChipIn widget. The ChipIn widget only works with hosted WordPress sites.
Not only do I want to use this technology, but I also want to teach my students this technology. Thank you in advance for listening and for considering this appeal.
To see a ChipIn campaign in action and to learn about this viral widget for raising money, see Robert French’s post here. And if you feel moved by his cause, I invite you to make a contribution. Every little bit helps.
Thanks for the support and link, Tiffany. I hope WordPress.com will answer the call. I do understand how allowing the embed tag can cause them security problems, but they were able to overcome that with YouTube, for example. Perhaps they’ll be willing to fix it for ChipIn so nonprofits can use WP.com blogs for their efforts.
Thanks again for your support.
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Robert, thank you for giving me a window into why ChipIn does not work on WordPress. I hope that WordPress can work around this challenge.
Not to be a downer
, but I think it’s unlikely you’re going to see a quick change in WordPress.com’s policies about allowing Javascript-based widgets.
An alternative for your students might be to use free Blogger blogs — or to get a free blog on Robert’s prblogs.org (running WordPress MultiUser).
Also, you might want to consider moving your blog to your own domain to get more control over what you can install (just one of the benefits of having a hosted WordPress install). Let me know if you need any help with it.
Constantin, thank you so much for your insight. I am just starting to learn the technical background of Web 2.0, so I did not know what was a realistic request to make.
Thank you for your suggestions about alternatives. It looks like I have some research to do!
Nice post
Thanks