I really think the Folksy shop Widget is under promoted and could be used more often. How many shop owners even know it is there or what to do with it @Folksyadmin I would really appreciate being able to create widgets for a specific collection but I can’t see that it is possible. I currently use the widget on two Wordpress sites, both in the side bar, footer and on a shop page.
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What is a widget ?
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Yes I agree, what is a widget?
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It’s in your shop dashboard. You cut and paste a piece of code to your own website and it makes a small version of your shop visible to your visitors!
There are different grid options. If you go to your own dashboard you can see your widgets!
See pic
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See my answer below with screen grabs
Thank you, I’ll take a look.
I’m capturing screen grabs now of what to do and I will upload them.
I’ve just had a look but unfortunately I don’t currently have my own website, it’s certainly something to look at in the future though. Thank you
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@JOYSofGLASS is the forum widget expert and has made tweaks to the code snippet so that it shows all of her Folksy shop on her website. She might be able to help you out with a suggestion of how to tweak the code to show a specific collection from your shop.
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I have cut and pasted screen shots of what you can do incase anyone uses wordpress and wants to give it a go. Any intuitive web building software should have the option to add a bit of HTML.
I suppose this is useful if your website isn’t ecommerce, but you certainly wouldn’t put a link to your Folksy shop on your own ecommerce website.
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Thanks. I did try but the widget seems to be based on our individual shops codes and I’ve tried adding my category code and it doesn’t like it. Hopefully someone with some HTML experience might know what to do.
In use here. Adjusted so it shows all my shop listings. Not perfectly displayed but does a brilliant job
SHOP ALL GLASS FOLKSY (---- via my blog link)
All the links click right through
This is the pasrt of the widget as in the HTML fragments on my website which allows me to show All my shop or at least 6 x 120 listings whatever that adds up to 
https ://widgets.folksy.com/shops/2481/6/120/shop
I set it to allow 120 lines of 6 per line…
I generated the widget from my dashboard and then edited it… this is something like what i started with… shop order large grid 4x4
< iframe allowtransparency=“true” width=“742” height=“1030” scrolling=“no” frameborder=“no” src=“https ://widgets.folksy.com/shops/2481/4/4/shop”>
(spaces added so it shows the full coding)
That just gives you a grid of 4 x 4 from the top of your shop
NB My website is shop front only. I don’t sell through it. I just showcase my things so customers can click through and buy directly from my shops.
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Thanks Joy. I can do that part. I’ve even broken it down in one if my answers so others can see how to add a widget. I would like to show just one category sometimes. I might show it to someone with Html experience and see if they can work out how to do it. I want to feature just one category on the page on one of my sites. 
I very much doubt you can. I think what you see is what you get… and depends on coding in the Folksy system to generate the code in the widget … so if code is not in the widget generator for any level other than shop… then I doubt you can do anything about it.
Just realised. I must be shop number 2481…
and you are 269676
You’ve been there a while then Joy
2009 15 years
Antique shop
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I was having a play…Here is your shop with your number instead of mine just posted imto my laptop address bar
It’s actually a very handy way of spotting where things are when you have a lot of listings like mine.
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Had another play and discovered the 6 is ignored if keyed directly into the address bar… it just seems to fit what will reasonably fit across with the screen resolution set so i increased the resolution and changed my 6 to a 4 and this gives me my entire shop front, 4 to a line as they appear on Folksy…
https ://widgets.folksy.com/shops/2481/4/200/shop
Quite a handy way of seeing what’s at the bottom of the shop which needs moving into the shop window
This does mean you don’t need a website to use this widget. Anyone can add it to their FB page
I just added it as a post on my personal page… I’m not leaving it there as i Hate the fact that it shows craft supplies at the same level as beautiful handmade gifts… as i don’t sell my scrap glass here, I sell it on EB*y… but you get the idea.
Right, must stop messing about… and get on with my new listings.
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Thank you for explaining, I don’t have my own website, but sounds like it would be really good to use if I did.
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