How to add Wowhead links to your blog
Another blogger asked me how to get the Wowhead mouseover links to work in her blog. For example, when you mouseover this item, you can see its Wowhead tooltip: Support Girdle
- Go to your dashboard, go to Layout, and in the widget section, make a new widget.
- Choose html/java, because it’s going to just be a bit of code pasted in. Don’t give it a title; this way it will show in your dashboard list of widgets as “html/javascript” but wont show on your blog’s widget list. It’ll be working for you behind the scenes.
- Paste this in:
- Save, and you’re done!
- Go to your dashboard; under Appearance, click on Edit.
- Open Header template file (putting it in the header means it will function on each page of your blog), and inside the <head></head> tag, paste this in:
- Go to wowhead and grab your item’s address/link, eg http://www.wowhead.com/?item=1215
- When you write your post, you’ll need to write the link like this:
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As far as I can tell, I’d have to pay to change the style sheet / header on my WP-hosted WP blog.
If this is not the case, it’d be awesome if somebody can point me how to get to it through the WP interface.
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I suggest adding this to guild forums, as well. It’s helpful for linking item lists, professions, spells, and boss abilities.
The fun part is that you can link an item and give it some crazy new name, since it’s just a link
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I’m not sure it’s possible to do this on hosted wordpress. I’ve tried to look into it in the past. You can change the CSS template for a fee, but this is an actual HTML code statement correct?
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I’m fairly certain WordPress hosted blogs do not permit running Java functions due to potential ways for hackers to get into things. I remember trying to figure it out awhile ago and someone had explained it on their help forums. You have to self-host in wordpress to be able to add them
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For guild forums, you can actually get mods (depending on your forum software) that can turn phpBB style tags into item links without having to worry about copy and pasting URLs.
You’d just write something like [item]Support Girdle[/item].
While Itemstats was (seemingly) broken around the time when I installed my guild’s forums (I ended up having to write my own phpbb mod), wowhead itself has a page with some tips on how to get wowhead powered tooltips integrated into your forums:
http://www.wowhead.com/?forums&topic=3464
Thanks everyone for your comments.
It seems that hosted WP blogs are a bit inflexible :/
I’ll most likely edit the post to say that it’s not possible in WP-hosted blogs, before I add it to the guides page..
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Beruthiel is correct in saying that you can not add it to Wordpress hosted sites. Unfortunatly the Wordpress people don’t like other people adding javascript to their themes.
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Thanks so much again for helping me with this the other day…..i still havent gotten around to making that post but now im glad all my questions led to a blog post to help everyone!
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I just attempted to add this script to my blogspot blog… and it doesn’t appear to be working, at least not to me… hrm.
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oh, i finally figured it out. With the new blogger xml templates, it’s a little more strict, i had to use single quotes as such:
src=’http:….’
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How odd…
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Thanks for this. I was putting it in the main index page and it wasn’t working for the full page posts. I was afraid I was going to have to edit a whole bunch of pages to get it to work, but decided to search first and found the answer here. Thanks again!