Common Ninja Blog

Showing the time in several places is easy to do and easy to do wrong. Here is how to add a world clock that survives daylight saving and actually helps your visitors.

YouTube does publish a feed, which makes this easier than most platforms. The decisions that matter are whether to show a channel or a playlist, and what the player costs your page.

Capterra reviews are written by buyers who evaluated software the way your prospects are evaluating yours. Here is how to get them onto your own site, and where they actually change a decision.

Your app store rating is the number that decides whether a visitor installs. Here is how to show Google Play reviews on your own site, and what the Play Console gives you to work with.

A job application form decides who applies and who gives up halfway. Here is what to ask, what to leave out, and what has to happen after somebody presses submit.

Publishing a feed is how your content travels to readers, apps and other websites. Here is how to create an RSS feed, what belongs in it, and how to check it is valid before you publish it.

There are three different things people mean by embedding a PDF in Canva. Here is which one you need, what Canva will accept, and what to do when it will not.

Google News publishes RSS for topics, searches and places. Here is how to build the exact feed URL you want, what the feed does and does not contain, and how to display it on a page.

Facebook recommendations only arrive if the feature is switched on, the ask is timed well, and the path takes one tap. Here is how to build that, without breaking any rules.

Pinterest publishes free embed widgets that need no API key, no account approval and no code beyond one script tag. Here is how to use them, where they stop being enough, and which shortcut to avoid.

Black Friday lands on November 27 this year. Here are six free widgets that get your site ready for holiday shoppers, what each one is for, and when to switch it on.