I'm looking into creating a Gmail Contextual Gadget. I've created a couple of simple gadgets that integrate into Google Calendar, and it was simple enough with those to publish the gadget manifest and add them to the calendar through the "add any gadget" labs feature.
The Gmail Contextual Gadget is starting to look like a different beast altogether (much more difficult to get up and running with a sample). Do I really have to register a domain with Google Apps, submit an Application Manifest, etc. in order to simply try my hand at creating one of these gadgets? Is there a simpler, less committal way of trying out the technology?
YES , you must have a Google Apps domain setup. It does not work for standard GMAIL accounts.
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Hey Guys i just quickly wanted to double check – as far as i know there is no way to implement the Microsoft Azure Login into an existing Website / Style – is this correct or is there any kind of work-around?
It really is annoying that customers need to "jump of" our page to azure to login in.
You can choose e.g. the background image. But, of course you can do the authentication back-end yourself, using the Microsoft Authentication libraries. See here for more info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/active-directory-authentication-scenarios
So I'm trying to add an actual Instagram feed to my wordpress site. I dont want to use a 3rd party site which doesnt drive traffic to the actual IG site. I've been on the IG developers site and to be honest kind of confusing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I would recommend using a plugin to do the hard work, since there are many out there, and integrating the instagram yourself could be a challenge. A quick google search gave me this one:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/instagram-feed/
If you don't want to use a plugin, you need to understand how the api works.
The instagram API requires OAuth authentication for most calls.
First, You will need to register an application on the https://instagram.com/developer/ site in order to obtain a client Id.
Once you have a client Id, you need to establish a flow for users who visit your site. There is no way around this for API calls requiring authentication.
First, the user needs to login and allow access from your account using the instagram api request url:
https://api.instagram.com/oauth/authorize/?client_id=CLIENT-ID&redirect_uri=REDIRECT-URI&response_type=code
CLIENT-ID is the id you obtained earlier, and REDIRECT-URL should be your wordpress site.
Calling this url will allow you to obtain an access token for the user on your site, and you can then make authenticated calls to the API using that token.
One way around this is to make simple calls that don't require authentication, using tags that are specific to your photos. That is described in this SO question:
Instagram API and importing photos without server side authentication
Cheers,
I agree with Felipe. If you or your client need an Instagram plugin, the easiest way would be to buy it at some marketplace. What’s more important, it is much cheaper than wasting your own time on developing one. Of course, that applies to commercial development, not something that you do for fun.
Here’s a list of plugins that I’ve installed to my clients and was happy about:
https:// wordpress.org/plugins/instashow-lite/ - lite version of the
premium plugin. The functionality is really limited, but it would be
enough to give you a simple display.
https://codecanyon.net/item/instagram-widget-wordpress-plugin-for-instagram/11170758 - a simple commercial widget to display your Instagram
account on a webpage.
https://elfsight.com/help/how-to-embed-instagram-feed-widget-on-html-website/ -
an interesting cloud solution for websites on any CMS. It’s got a demo and a
free plan.
Currently my service sends users an email with two links (action "A" and action "B"). Clicking on the link opens a new tab with action confirmation.
There was a desire to allow the user to select the action without opening a new tab, directly from the GMail.
To do this, I wanted to use the Email Markup, but it turned out that it only supports a single action. (I found it not in Email Markup docs, but on Stackoverflow, here)
As an alternative, I would like to use contextual gadgets, but the documentation says:
There are two development and deployment models:
Develop a Gmail contextual gadget for use within a single organization's Google Apps domains (an in-house application).
List the gadget for sale on the Google Apps Marketplace.
i.e. use gadgets for this purpose will not work.
Is there some other opportunity to allow users to select the action directly in the GMail?
We recently switched our team to Google Apps and with that, everyone got a Google Apps account . However, for those of us with a GMail account as well, this makes it so that bringing up Gmail in your browser opens up either your personal account or your Google apps account.
Even though GMail has multiple Sign-ins enabled for both of my accounts, I still have to spend time switching through both accounts.
I was wondering if there was a way to specify the account I wanted to use in the URL directly, which would allow me to create a bookmark for GMail for both of these accounts:
something like:
http://mail.google.com?a=firstaccount#gmail.com
http://mail.google.com?a=workaccount#googleappsdomain.com
I just don't believe anyone at Google has never thought of this! :-)
The same question applies to all of Google's services too I guess (docs, sites, etc...)
https://mail.google.com/a/googleappsdomain.com/
This works like a charm, with one exception: regular gmail.com accounts. https://mail.google.com/mail/ will direct you to the inbox for whichever account you logged in as first. My work around has been to make sure I log into my personal e-mail first (but this at least avoids having to log into the rest in a specific order).
For an access to multiple gmail adresse you can use this :
https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLoginAuth?continue=http://mail.google.com/gmail&service=mail&Email=yourname#gmail.com
I've got a gmail account that I use to check my IMAP mail from my domain right now and its working OK. I want to move to using google apps for my domain so i dont have to setup accounts etc using my hosting company. Can I do that with my existing google account or do I have to loose my gmail and get a brand new account etc setup again?
I believe this question should be for SF or SU.
Anyway, if you want to use name#yourdomain.com, it has nothing to do with your name#gmail.com. They will be independent.
More G.apps FAQ here, read "How is Google Apps different from a free #gmail.com account? ".
I've been through the process, and although I didn't actually want to tie my #gmail.com account to the Google Apps domain, I didn't see any way this could be done.
I've been very happy with the result, FWIW.