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Friday, January 4
BirdTrax Website Embedder
Here's a simple tool to help you embed BirdTrax on your website. Fill in the information below, then click "Get Code!" to copy the code you need to paste on your website to place the gadget. If you encounter any issues, please comment or email me.
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I find this widget very helpful because setting it to a 50km radius circle I can get sightings and checklists which cross county lines. The widget gives me data over the entire region over which I am willing to travel to see interesting birds.
ReplyDeleteI managed to get at least a version of the gadget up on my site at https://sites.google.com/site/birdernaturalist/, but it doesn't allow you to scroll down the species list. Thanks for your help.
ReplyDeleteRichard, when embedding your gadget on sites, in the properties box you need navigate to the display section at the bottom and check the box "include a scrollbar on gadget when necessary". This should do it! Zach
DeleteZachary - I'm not seeing the option you mention in your comment, but I'm not missing a navigation bar either: ctbirding.org/birdbot . I do see Richard's issue when visiting his site. Is this something unique to Google Sites?
ReplyDeleteAlso, can you tell me when the eBird gadget was retired? It seems that BirdTrax was substituted without any notice (at least I can't find any mention of that). We had some local commentary about both gadgets on our site. It's nice to have BirdTrax but there can be IE issues and some of our IE (older versions) visitors may now be having problems. Thanks!
Steve, the old sightings gadget was full of deprecated terminology and I wasn't prepared for a rewrite. Also, it was hosted through old Google servers which disappeared with iGoogle. While I did transfer BirdTrax (with a lot of hassle), there was very little use of the sightings gadget (e.g. ~250 users compared to 50,000 on BirdTrax). This motivated my decision to stop maintaining the recent sightings gadget and I will take down documentation shortly. I know the IE issue is a problem and I do hope to address it entirely in future applications, though BirdTrax is how it is. Also, the scrolling feature is unique to the platform on which the gadget is embedded--blogger, google sites, wordpress, etc. all have their own ways of allowing you to display a scrollbar. I don't think Richard has changed his settings yet, but once he does it will show a scrollbar as well.
DeleteThank you for your detailed reply - very helpful to me in case I should use one of those platforms. The eBird gadget was very useful in its time - just surprised to see it was gone. I'm pretty sure it disappeared only in the last week or so for me. FYI - there is a broken graphic in the bottom left corner of the BT content (birdtrax.xml).
DeleteAnd of course, thanks for your continued great work on BirdTrax!!!
Hello. Our BirdTrax gadget has disappeared from our WordPress website. (www.mvaudubon.org). I have completed the information above, retrieved the code, copied onto our webpage but it is just displaying the actual code, not the sightings table we are used to seeing. Can you help? Thanks - Barb Rodriguez
ReplyDeleteBarb, I'm sure this issue can be fixed. Send me the code you are using at support@birdventurebirding.com. I suspect something is happening to the HTML tags (< and >)
DeleteI want to add this gadget to my blog site and have successfully done so. Except it also displays comments which I hope can be inactivated. Is this possible?
ReplyDeleteKen, yes I will get the checklist tab notification removed at my first opportunity. Zach
DeleteI generated the following code for my Englewood Florida location -
ReplyDeleteJust great - It won't accept the pasted in code so I can show you.
When I paste it in and test it - I get the proper date range, but '0 checklists, 0 species.' There are lots of checklists within the 50K circle centered at Lat - 26.9866, Lon - 82.345. What am I doing wrong here??
Best - Ken
Ken, can you send me your code and/or website at support@birdventurebirding.com? Thanks, Zach.
DeleteMy quick observation is that Englewood, Florida is +26 Latitude and - 82 Longitude, not as stated above.
DeleteI've updated my site (http://www.macgardens.org) since I had been wondering what happened to Recent Sightings. The new one works well. A wealth of information. But it doesn't seem to be limited to a 50 km radius. We are in Frederick, Md and some sightings are in Ocean City, 240 km away. Nonetheless it's a wonderful resource.
ReplyDeleteJohn, new in BirdTrax is the capability to look across an entire state/province. You have this set for state-wide Maryland sightings and rarities, thus you are getting Ocean City sightings and Frederick sightings. If you want just Frederick sightings, you can still use the area radius feature. Just take another look at the settings! Best, Zach
DeleteI'm trying to embed BirdTrax to my Wordpress website. I've followed the steps as far as I can tell but I'm only getting a link to the code to display on the site. Anyone have any ideas?
ReplyDeleteThanks
You're embedding as text. You need to embed as JavaScript. These articles may help:
Deletehttps://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Javascript
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-embed-code/
Best, Zach
Bird Trax widget has disappeared from our website. Tried to get a new code but it does't work. Suggestions?
ReplyDeleteYes, Google pulled the plug on this. Take a look at the accubirder.com gadget. Zach
DeleteDoes AccuBirder list all bird sitings. Not just rarities?
DeleteNo, it lists only rarities. If you wish to view all sightings regularly you may wish to bookmark the eBird Explore a Region page.
DeleteThanks for the update. Birdtrax just disappeared from my Wordpress site (macgardens.org). After reading your comments I pasted in the AccuBirder code. Looks nice.
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