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April 1, 2009

A new way to share your Posterous on your other blogs and sites: The Posterous Blog Widget

People use Posterous in a ton of different ways. Some like to autopost directly to their blogs on Wordpress or elsewhere. We're great for that -- we bring posting rich media by email to your existing blogs and online services.

Others, like Guy Kawasaki use us for all things bigger than a tweet but smaller than a blogpost, separate from their existing blogs on Typepad, Wordpress, or elsewhere. For those users, now you can share the stuff you post to Posterous on your own blog too, with the new Posterous Blog Widget by WidgetBox. Just get the embed code and drop it into your existing blog or website sidebar, and you're set.

Here's an example of what the Official Posterous Posterous would look like using the Widgetbox widget:

See our Ways to Share page in Help to customize and get installation instructions for your site.

Posted by Garry Tan 

Comments (24)

Apr 01, 2009
Powen Shiah said...
Cool!
Apr 01, 2009
pickled beetnik said...
thats super useful
Apr 01, 2009
Alan Ham said...
This would have been a perfect place to inject a picture of Xzibit with the caption "Yo dawg I heard you like blogging so we put a blog in your blog so you can blog while you blog."
Apr 02, 2009
Marco F. said...
that's (again) vewwy cool. But of course I use my posterous as my main blog... does it work recursively? :-)
Apr 02, 2009
R. Harbayu Budhi W Architect said...
ohhh mr garry tan i love this widget
Apr 02, 2009
Eileen Rivera said...
Yes! I've been waiting for something like this :)
Apr 02, 2009
Evan Bartlett said...
You guys are awesome!!
Apr 03, 2009
Alex Schleber said...
Pretty nice, but you guys really need to have your OWN widget out, FREE with Posterous. You control the branding, tracking, etc. etc.
Apr 03, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
@Alex make sense, but so much to do, so little time. Widgetbox is awesome. we love those guys
Apr 03, 2009
Evan Bartlett said...
Widget looks nice, but I don't like how it opens with a Widgetbox bar across the top.  My posterous looks better without that :-)
Apr 03, 2009
La tête près du bérêt said...
Could someone tell me where to find the widget on Widgetbox ? If i do a search on "Posterous", I get several answers back. Which one is the good one ?
Thanks!
Apr 04, 2009
Tim Rogers said...
there doesn't appear to be any code or customize instructions after the colon on the 'ways to share' page. is something missing or have i missed something?
Apr 04, 2009
Garry Tan said...

If you click the "Customize and get the embed code for this widget »"
button you should be brought to widgetbox.com to customize and get the
code. Let us know if it's broken for you -- help@posterous.com

Apr 04, 2009
Tim Rogers said...
Thanks Garry - it seems that if I'm logged out I can see the link and image, but then the page instructs me to log in to get it personalised. When I do this it disappears: Mac 10.5.6, Safari and Firefox
May 25, 2009
Liza Sperling said...
LOVE my posterous, but as I autopost and explore the options elsewhere, I have blog envy for the blog roll links, widgets to add your email to subscribe, etc... I was able to add some widgets, others don't work - for ex, I added the Friendfeed widget using the html code in my profile w/o a problem, but the feedburner one did not work out. So I figured I would just ask and see if anyone else has figured out a way to hack some additional functionality into their posterous.
- how can I add blogroll links?
- how can I add widgets? feedburner, delicious, etc...
May 25, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
Liza, we are working on theming and customization now. Once that's available, you'll be able to customize your entire site, including add things like other widgets
May 25, 2009
Liza Sperling said...
Thanks, Sachin. I love the clean interface, but I look forward to some options. LMK if you need a guinea pig.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

May 27, 2009
J.F. Ayel said...
Cool... A new way to share your Posterous on your other blogs and sites: The Posterous Blog Widget
Jun 02, 2009
thuanvietceo said...
Thanks a lot, I like it
Jun 29, 2009
Peter Crowell said...
I like Posterous a lot. But I sure don't need a slightly expanded twitter in addition to my blog. If I can't say it fast, it's a blog post. As Posterous becomes more customizable, my needs will be met, I'm sure.
Sep 02, 2009
Personal Trainers said...
I love posterous but I think it's too limited at this point. For my purpose of answering fitness questions via email it is PERFECT but I don't think the viewers can get enough benefit out of it.
Sep 02, 2009
Personal Trainers said...
by the way, widget box sucks something fierce
Oct 16, 2009
Denni Schnapp said...
It's a song and dance to get at the embedded text and after all that, I find out that LJ doesn't handle Javascript/Flash.

Cheers (not) :(

Nov 06, 2009
Jennifer Windrum said...
Ok, so I created the Widget through Widgetbox, signed up for the service only to find out Posterous doesn''t even support it? Sucks. I want my money back.

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