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This week we published our first wine widget on Widgetbox.  It’s really neat, because the Wine Review Widget can be configured to do many different things simply by changing a few widget parameters.  And, Widgetbox helps you use the widget properly and walks you through the process of installing a widget on any type of blog or site.

With Widgetbox, it’s a two step process.  The first thing you need to do is to install a “panel” somewhere on your blog.  It can be an empty panel if you’re planning to use widgets only in blog posts, or the panel can actually contain the widgets.  Then, you can re-configure the panel at Widgetbox without needing to edit your template.

The second step is to configure the widget itself and place it either on your panel or in a blog post.  The widget has the following parameters:

• How many labels to display, and whether the labels should animate (scroll)
• User specified sort parameter and value (ascending/descending)
• User specified wine, winery, varietal or V2V users’ wine list
• Specific or Range of Year, Rating, Release Price, or Case Production

Here are some example of what you can do with the widget.  These widgets are all the same widget with different parameters specified.  In all cases, clicking on a wine label takes the user to the wine page on Vino2Vino for the specified wine.

A scrollable wine list for the user “VaDeVi”

Cabernet wines, vintage 2000~2005, rated above 95 points

All Napa Valley wines rated above 90 points

Wines from the winery Château Margaux, 1980-Present

Single Wine - 1997 Trefethen Chardonnay

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