It was announced back in April 2010 by Clearspring (the third party provider of the current Talkshoe Wdigets) that they were turning off their API coding that controlled the embed and sharing capabilities of these widgets. Now, the wiidgets still remain functional, for the most part, however, you cannot obtain a new embed code, so new users or anyone that wants to get their embed codes for these widgets, are flat out of luck! At the same time, Clearspring has also announced that by January 2011, the rest of the widgets will cease to exist…in other words, they will go away permanently.

In light of the fact that so many Talkshoe users rely on these widgets to not only function, but have the capability to be added to not only their site, but other sites as well, two alternatives have come about as replacements for these widgets until such a time that Talkshoe posts new widgets on their site again.

The first widget is for WordPress.org Self Hosted users. In other words, persons that have their own hosting available for the WordPress scripts to run on. Sorry, WordPress.com users, until WordPress adds this widget to their current lineup, you will not be able to use it.

The WP_Talkshoe Plugin can be obtain from the WordPress Repository and at it’s home page too. This plugin is compatible with WordPress v3.0 and higher and will allow for many options that are changeable and more to come as the widget continues to be developed. It is unlikely that Talkshoe will develop anything like this, so this widget will be around for a long time to come yet!

The second widget is available for other blog sites and web sites that can utilize flash and javascript coding. This widget allows for options to set your Show ID and the background color. It is available in the one size currently, however, a smaller version is being worked on and should be released soon. We’ll let you know when that happens!

I will talk more about these widgets on my Friday Night Show, The Community Collective, at 8:00pm Every Friday Night.

If you have any future update ideas, please let me know. I am always looking for feedback on projects like this!

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We did a complete (well almost) refit of the WP_Talkshoe plugin and now the background color works and overrides the default theme background. You can still leave the color blank to use the theme’s default background colors. I also added a new color chart to the options page that gives you many options for colors that you can use. You can now change the font colors on the Host Title, the Past Episodes title, the Next Episode Title and the Now Playing Title.

Some graphics have been reworked to improve them and some others have been totally replaced.

Since WordPress 3.0.1 was just released, this plugin has been fully tested and works great! In fact, the automatic plugin upgrade notification now works, so if you were unable to upgrade before and was not receiving the notifications, you should be now!

More improvements coming soon! If you have any ideas for future upgrades, please let me know!

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In our most recent update, we added an options page instead of using the widget to set the options. This will allow for future expansion of the options. We had a slight bug in this page and the options could not be saved. This has been corrected and the modifications have been uploaded to the repository.

We are still working on getting the automatic upgrades to function. Not sure what the problem is, but we hope to have this ironed out soon! In the meantime, you will need to go and download the current versions as they come out. Sorry for this inconvenience.

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For anyone that is attempting to use the Talkshoe Dynamic Widgets, you are finding that the embed code is missing! To get around this issue right now, The NMP Network has released a new WordPress Plugin called WP_Talkshoe that is a replacement for the Talkshoe Dynamic Widgets. This plugin has been released to the WordPress Repository and is currently available. Just search Talkshoe in the repository or download it direct from our plugins page at http://www.talkshoesupport.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-talkshoe/

We also have a standard widget available for other web sites and blogs that are not WordPress Powered. You can obtain those widgets from http://www.talkshoesupport.com/widgets/

There may be more widgets added soon, so if you have any ideas for features or upgrades, please let us know!

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