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[edit] LibraryThing blog widgets

Click the More tab, and you'll see the blog widget options. Put a LibraryThing widget on your blog and show your visitors what you're reading now, random books from your collection, your tag cloud, etc.

• Make a standard blog widget: Shows books, authors or tags.
• Make a search widget: Let your visitors search your library right on your blog.

[edit] Style guide for writing custom CSS

In order to apply styles only to a specific widget, we give each one a unique ID, which we use in all styles. This means you could have more than one widget at a time on your page, with different styles.

div#[your widget ID]

For corners and borders, main body text for book titles, author names, etc.

.LT_header

Title formatting

.LT_bookreview

Book review text

.LT_cover

Cover image style

.LT_tags

Tag text style

[edit] Widgets that work on LiveJournal, MySpace, Wordpress

NEW: We're beta-testing LiveJournal- and MySpace-compatible widgets. It also works on Wordpress, so try this if the standard widget isn't working for you.