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Alex Barashkov
Medium Widget — Unofficial articles feed widget for Medium
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Generate a widget for your personal or company feed. Use it on your website to attract more readers and demonstrate your credibility. It is easy to set up and had customizable styles.

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Will Dages

I went from seeing this to having a new 'News' page live on my site in about 30 minutes. Previously, we had been direct linking out from our nav to our Medium blog, nice to have people stay on our site a little longer to preview the recent articles before sending them out. I added a screen width check to load in the widget as 1, 2, or 3 columns depending on the browser's width. Here's what it looks like on our site: https://findawayvoices.com/news/

Pros:

Lots of options for what info to include, extremely fast to generate your embed code and get up and running, looks great out of the box.

Cons:

No native responsive support (but easy to shim that in). Images too low-res for single column.

Alex Barashkov
Maker
Hey Will, Thank you for your feedback. We just released a minor update which added ability to define an aspect ratio for picture "Original", "Landscape", "Square". So all your new visitors will see the landscape images by default. For other cache time will be 5 hours. You could check it to but clear cache at first, to make sure your widget.js file is up to date.
Rohan Taneja
Hi @willdages, do you mind sharing how you made it responsive? Thanks.
Will Dages
This is really cool, I've been looking for something like this. Currently we just link out directly to our Medium page, going to add a "News" page to our site this morning and try this out! Update: I'm live with it on our site! https://findawayvoices.com/news/ I did add a little screen-width check before determining the column count, and added a fallback text of 'Loading posts...' inside the div just in case it doesn't load. Other than that, super easy to work with, looks great right out of the box. Nice work team!
Alex Barashkov
Maker
@willdages Thank you! I think we will add also the option to have original aspect ratio of images or same for all images
Will Dages
@alex_barashkov That'd be great, we normally go landscape for posts, but we do have that one oddball in there.
Vladislav Kamelskiy
Simple clean design. Like it
Vincent Cotro

Very nice widget but it seems that the backend is down.

I get the error ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID

Can you fix it ? Thank you again for the work :)

Also, it would be amazing to open source the project.

Pros:

Beautiful design

Customizable

Cons:

Not open source

Alex Barashkov
Maker
Hi Product Hunters, The idea to make a Medium Widget came to us when we decided to include our Medium feed on our company website, but could not find an existing solution for this. Instead of building a custom solution, we decided to share the results of our development with our community and make it flexible for use on any website. We would kindly appreciate if you use our widget leave feedback on your experience.
Martin Szyllo
Much needed indeed
Alexey Kuznetsov

This thing really helps to organise your company's website, thanks guys!

Pros:

Easy installation, looks good

Cons:

I don't see any cons

Roland Clifford
i like idea make widget animation good feautcher
Jose Marcos
It is a useful and neat solution. I very much like it!
John Smith
Yes it is an good widgets. After using this my blogs and website are becoming good DA in Google.
Rohan Taneja

Until it becomes responsive and mobile-friendly, I will not be using Medium Widget. A material design option (or another design language) would be cool.

Pros:

It's clean, simple and easy to set up.

Cons:

It needs to be responsive. I'm having trouble getting it to work with my mobile-friendly site.

Vivek Kapuriya
Hi there, This medium plugin is down right now. Will you guys please fix it asap please? (I am running this in my production) It says "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable" on pixelpoint website. https://medium-widget.pixelpoint...
Tom Rose
Is there a reason the widget wouldn't pull a story in from the medium page? Something on mediums end perhaps? I'm trying to embed my medium feed in squarespace and it's not showing the latest medium publication