Introducing the CafePress Widget!

Jan 28th, 2011

Introducing the CafePress Widget!

When it comes to CafePress, we love riding the latest tech wave to help our shopkeepers and give our fans something to like. And so it goes, with our newest web-worthy offering: our CafePress widget!

The CafePress widget is a unique tool and gives you an interactive experience with the millions of diverse designs on CafePress.

You can create your own with a few simple clicks of the mouse. Shopkeepers and affiliates can use the widget to promote your products and your shop, and it’s a great marketing tool to share your designs with friends, supporters, and the world-wide-web (affiliates, all you have to do is enter your CJ PID and all sales are credited to you, just like the usual). Type in your shop ID, and you can randomly select various products to feature, and anyone who clicks your widget will be directed to your shop.

For our amazing fans out there, from Edward Cullen fanatics to yoga enthusiasts, simply type in your favorite tag (like, Edward Cullen, or yoga), and products will pop up, just like that. Choose the perfect size and color widget, and create your code. Then you can utilize the widget on your own shop, webpage or your blog by cutting and pasting the created code.

I have a freakish love for giraffes, so after cooing over all of the cute giraffe t-shirts on CafePress, I went ahead and made a giraffe widget. I typed in “giraffes” into the tag field, and after some snazzalicious styling, this is what I got!

Make Custom Gifts at CafePress

You can scroll back and forth to see more of your favorite gifts using the arrows at the bottom. For me this means more squeals of delight with every click of the arrow. Try out your very own CafePress widget and keep us posted on the results!

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20 Responses to “Introducing the CafePress Widget!”

on 28 Jan 2011 at 10:34 pm1Joel

Curious if you will create an easy to use application that we could enter our shop ID and place it on a facebook fan page tab.
on 31 Jan 2011 at 6:34 pm2Gretchen Vaughn

I cannot get this Widget to work at all on Typepad. It will not embed in posts like Amazon or WidgetBox or videos. I also tried the Typepad sidebar and I get a nice box with no content. Please fix! Thank you!
on 02 Feb 2011 at 2:10 pm3Jacque

I love this but for some reason its not working for me. There are no products showing up in the preview or the widget when I place it on my blog. I’d love some input.
on 04 Feb 2011 at 11:30 am4RunAllieRun

Hi Gretchen,

The problem should be fixed, thank you for letting us know! If you run into any other problems, send us an e-mail: blog@cafepress.com.

Happy Friday!
on 06 Feb 2011 at 8:52 pm5Mark

Is there a way to target a specific design on the widget, as a shopkeeper? It seems to have just chosen an arbitrary design to put up for my shop.
on 11 Feb 2011 at 4:33 am6Download Bollywood songs

I love latest technology n this widget too…
Thanks for this post.
on 11 Feb 2011 at 5:40 pm7Jo

Is it possible to select the currency it displays. I am in AU and it shows US currency amounts.
on 16 Feb 2011 at 5:54 pm8RunAllieRun

Hi Jo,

Depending on what the currency settings are in your store, the widget should also show the currency that’s in your shop. I hope that helps, and let me know if you have any other questions!

Allison
on 16 Feb 2011 at 5:55 pm9RunAllieRun

Hi Jacque,

Try refreshing to see if that helps. You may have to input your information again, but it should work! If not, send an e-mail to us at blog@cafepress.com and we’ll try to trouble shoot with you!

Allison
on 18 Feb 2011 at 5:52 am10Nikki

Great idea! But I am having a problem with it. When I click on an item, the page enlarges within the 200×300 widget so you can’t see it and it doesn’t open to another full page to the shop unless I right click, and sometime I get error message on that new page.

Please help.
on 23 Feb 2011 at 3:51 pm11angie

how can i center the widget? every time i try to in wordpress, it wrecks the widget. any ideas? thanks!
on 02 Mar 2011 at 3:16 pm12Kathy Zagzebski

I tried putting the widget in an FBML box on my organization’s Facebook page, and it didn’t show up. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
on 10 Mar 2011 at 2:47 pm13Amy Callis

Am having the same problem that the widget does not work in my FBML box on Facebook. Can someone respond back with a fix? Thanks!
on 26 Apr 2011 at 3:22 pm14Jim

Thanks, would really like to use this but… PLEASE update this widget so shopkeeprs can set the order of products or at least randomize the products it shows. The widget seems to just display products in the order they were added to our store. It shows products from the first section in our store, so it appears there are only shirts available, all with the same design. Ideally the widget would show a wide selection of the different items available in a store.
on 17 May 2011 at 8:47 am15Russ

Mine isn’t showing a preview of the products either . . . how can I fix it?
on 18 May 2011 at 8:19 pm16Jeremy

Our attempts to use the widget aren’t working — still displaying a blank window — no products are displaying.
on 12 Jun 2011 at 9:57 pm17Scotch

The widget is not working .. I have it on a post page, so just click in to check it out. The code is below .. if you need it ..

Make Custom Gifts at CafePress
on 21 Sep 2011 at 5:11 pm18Peter

I cannot get the Cafepress widget to work. It just shows a blank window. Also, the widget you have as the example in this blog is blank too.

Has your Widget code stopped working?

Does anyone from Cafepress reply to comments on this blog?
on 28 Dec 2011 at 10:24 pm19anyes

not working by using this address:

http://www.cafepress.com/anyesart
on 28 Dec 2011 at 10:25 pm20anyes

not working when using: http://www.cafepress.com/anyesart