Get your new GeneaBloggersTRIBE badge!
Along with the changeover from GeneaBloggers to the GeneaBloggersTRIBE comes a new logo and a new badge. We’d like all our participating bloggers to grab the code below to add our badge to your site. (Or, if you have the old badge, replace it with this one.)
Displaying the GeneaBloggersTRIBE logo is a fun way of joining in the community of family history bloggers.
Not sure how to do it? Here’s directions for Blogger (Blogspot.com sites) and WordPress
To Add the GeneaBloggersTRIBE Badge on Blogger
1. Highlight the text in the box below, right-click and select Copy
2. Windows users, paste on to Wordpad, then select and Copy. (This strips any formatting picked up via your web browser)
3. In Blogger, go to Layout
4. Select Add A Gadget
5. Select HTML/Javascript
6. In the Content area, right-click and select Paste
7. Click Save
To Add the GeneaBloggersTRIBE Badge on WordPress.com or WordPress.org
1. Highlight the text in the box below, right-click and select Copy
2. Windows users, paste on to Wordpad, then select and Copy. (This strips any formatting picked up via your web browser)
3. In WordPress, go to Appearance
4. Select Widgets
5. Locate Text and “drag” the Text item over to the list of Widgets on the right
6. In the list of Widgets, locate new widget and click Edit
7. Right-click and select Paste
8. Click Done
8. Click Save Changes
Copy the code in the box below
© 2017 GeneabloggersTRIBE All Rights Reserved
This code didn’t work for me – the code I used to have for Geneabloggers didn’t have the target and rel instructions. I used the following code and it worked for me:
Hi Elizabeth,
I see that you’ve gotten it working! And though it’s a few hours early, Happy Blogiversary on your Jewish Genealogy blog from the GeneabloggersTRIBE team!
My website builder discourages use of links to any site that is not https and considers this link not secure. I would like to use it otherwise.
I see that because it’s html, it didn’t display. I’m going to try again.
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Copy and paste what’s in between the asterisks and hyphens.
It doesn’t work for me, either, and I can’t read what Elizabeth H. did to make it work. Thanks.
Nancy, we’ll have one of our Blogger experts contact you via email.
I have repeatedly tried this. Cannot get it to work. We copy the entire code, correct?
Glad to see you’ve got it up now.
I just copied the image & aded my own link. The code would not work for me.
That works too. Thanks for persevering.
I ended up copying the code above, temporarily pasting it in the html script edit box, and then cutting and pasting various parts of the new code into the original GeneaBloggers image code. After I deleted what was left of the new code, I was able to have the GeneaBloggerTRIBE image on my blog.
I’m glad you have it working. Apparently the quote mark graphic was causing problems for some users. We’ve updated that.
I had issues with the code as well but I noticed when I pasted it into my html gadget, it added two sets of quotation marks within the code itself throughout. Weird. I just eliminated that second set of quotation marks and the badge showed up.
Glad you got it working. We’ve removed the quote graphic, so this won’t happen to others. (At least not anymore.)
My initial attempt resulted in a broken image. Then I looked at the html, and realized that copying and pasting the html was creating “smart quotes.”
Smart quotes look like this: ” (they are curved)
Once I edited all the smart quotes to be regular html quotes, everything worked fine.
Oh thank you John. I edited the post, removing the block quote mark. Hopefully that will resolve everyone’s issues.
Whatever you did made the code disappear from the post.
It wasn’t the blockquote, but the quotes around the URLs in the code that were being changed from straight quotes to curved. It might be a setting in my browser that is changing them.
Really fixed now. We appreciate your reading and commenting John.
Glad to see I am not the only person who has bee struggling to get this badge on their blog(s).
Hilary, Apparently sometimes the little quote mark graphic that was in the original post gets copied along with the code and causes it to fail. For that reason, we’ve removed the graphic. Can you try again?
When I changed to straight quotes after pasting it worked.
I’m yet another who can’t get this to work. It shows a broken image link.
It’s fixed now. I don’t know why, but I fixed the quote marks for the fourth time and it worked!
Thanks for the info about changing the quotes from fancy-pants ones to straight down the line. I have now managed it.
Done but not from the code above. I used (trying to comment out)
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What I ended up doing was opening the badge in a new tab, copying the url & putting it in an Image widget instead.
It looks good now Christine.
After I left the comment, I went back and changed all the quote marks just in case and now it works. So apparently when you thought you changed it on the website, it didn’t change, or else when it was copied it reverted to the old type quote marks. Anyhow, thanks for what you are doing.
I got it working by deleting each quotation mark and retyping a quotation mark. They showed up straight when I did that. Thank you for the new badge!
Thanks for putting it on the Family Locket site!
In WordPress, I am not able to Edit a Widget Text Item. No place to Paste. I can add the Widget Text to the Sidebar and it’s position, but no place to paste the HTML Code
Russ, you can paste HTML code in a Text widget. You open it by clicking on the little arrow on the right side of the widget. Does this make sense? After you enter it, make sure the quotation marks are straight not curly. That seems to be the problem that people are having.
Thanks to all who recommended changing the quotation marks — that worked for me!
Glad you’re all set Carol. It’s a great example of how Tribe members help each other out.
I can’t get it to work either on Blogger. “URL contains illegal characters” pops up. I am trying to put it in “gadgets”. Is that the correct place to put it?
Hi Shirley! I’m not a Blogger user, but some of the previous commenters on this post noted that the quotation mark characters needed to be changed when pasting the code into your gadget. Can you give that a try?
Thanks — posted to my site footer.
Thanks!
Cool!