Eyes right!

If you direct your attention to the right for one moment… no, down a bit more, just under the Archives…. There, that’s it, the lovely pictures!  The lovely pictures that link to their Etsy listings, in a new window. 🙂

While WordPress doesn’t allow me to add an Etsy Mini to my blog, it does allow me to add the “text” widget, that can hold text AND HTML.  So, in case you’re interested in doing the same, the very simple code for doing so is:

<a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21923298"
target="_blank"><img src="http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_430xN.60238328.jpg"
width="250" alt="Japanese bracelet" /></a>

Broken down,

<a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21923298"

is the link to your listing, followed by

target="_blank">

which makes it open in a new window/tab.  Then

<img src="http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_430xN.60238328.jpg"

is the link to the image, which you can get by right-clicking on the picture you want and choosing “copy link location” (in firefox; anyone know what it is in IE?).

width="250" alt="Japanese bracelet" /></a>

The <width> tag sizes the image; I’m only specifying width as I want the picture to resize evenly so it’s not squashed or stretched.  And the <alt> tag is the alternate text; it’s optional but good practice to have, so just put a brief description of the photo.

And there you go.  Copy this into the text widget, click done and then save changes, and you can have some of your listings displayed on your WordPress blog permanently 🙂

Unfortunately these images won’t automagically update when you add new items like Etsy Mini, but you can update them as often as you want.  Just below my pics I have an RSS feed with the titles of the three latest listings in my shop, as a compromise.