Creating a Bonanzle Widget

Log into Bonanzle

Select "My Bonanzle"

It is located along the top right menu.

Select "Manage Widgets"

It is located on the left menu in the "Selling Activity" box under the "Make More Sales" header.

This will load your current list of widgets.

Select "Create a new widget"

It is located at the bottom of the page.

This will load a page showing two options for creating widgets.

Enter a title for your widget

Select "Create Widget"

This will load a page confirming that your widget was created.

Select "Visit your booth" to add items to it.

Note that you can add items from anyones booth.

In your booth, select an item you want to add.

This will load the item details page.

Select your widget in the "Add to widget" box.

This box is located under the item description in the "Actions" section.

You may need to select the arrow under actions to view the box.

When you do so, the box will be replaced with "Item added to widget"

Continue adding items until you have the number you want.

I recommend adding products in groups of 4 for best viewing.

Getting the code for your Bonanzle Widget

Once you have created your widget and placed items in it, you will need to get the code to display it.

Select "My Bonanzle"

Select "Manage Widgets"

This will display your current widgets.

Select the widget you want to place on your site.

This will show your widget and give the code for it.

Select "Edit widget appearance"

This will let you customize your widget.

Set the options you want for your widget

You can change the title.

You can choose where on bonanzle it links to.

Set this to your booth or a booth category.

Enter "/booths/YourBoothName" to set it to your booth.

You can choose how many items to show per row.

You can choose how large the images should be.

You can choose a default style.

You can choose custom colors for the background color, border color, and link color.

When satisfied, select "Save all changes"

This will return you to viewing your widget.

Copy the code displayed

Click in the box under "Paste the following…"

Select "Edit" → "Select All" from the file menu.

Select "Edit" → "Copy" from the file menu.

You are now ready to add your widget to your web site.

Adding your Bonanzle Widget to your web site

To add your widget to a page or post on your site, edit the page or post in question and paste the code for the widget into it ( "Edit" → "Paste" in the file menu )

You can also choose to add widgets to sidebars by creating a text widget and pasting the widget code into it.

Setting up your sidebars

Fortunately, WordPress makes adding, altering, and removing widgets from your sidebars fairly simple.

To see what is currently in your dynamic sidebars:

• Login to your WordPress admin panel.
• Select "Appearance" → "Widgets".

• If you have an older wordpress version, you might have to select the sidebar you want to view to display sidebar information. Otherwise your sidebar display will look something like that above, showing the various dynamic sidebars available for widget placement.
• On the left side, you will see the currently available widgets. You can get more widgets by installing and activating wordpress plugins which have widgets.
• To place a widget in a sidebar, drag it to the sidebar you want it to show up in.
• To edit widget options, select the drop down arrow next to the widget in question while it is in your sidebar.

In the above image, the options for the Flexi Pages widget are shown. You can set the options you want and select "Save" to update the widget. You can also remove the widget or cancel your changes.

Once you have your widgets the way you want them, view your site and you should see them displayed.

Note: When you add a widget to a sidebar, the default widgets displayed in that sidebar disappear.

Note: For the Atahualpa theme, I recommend adding the following widgets to the left sidebar:

• Flexi-Pages
• Categories
• Tag Cloud

I also recommend adding a text widget to the right sidebar and creating a link to your store in it as well as a link to your newsletter if you have one. To link your Bonanza Store, you would enter something like the following into a text booth widget:

Visit our store for great deals on <a href="http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/YourBoothName" title="Your Booth Name">The-Types-Of-Items-You-Sell</a>.

You could, of course simply use the name of your store, but if you want better search engine ranking for your store, it is good to have links on keywords you want your store to be competitive for.