Common Ninja Blog

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.

Lovable builds the site. It does not build the booking calendar, the cookie banner, or the form that actually delivers an email. Here are seven widgets worth embedding, and the one thing about React that trips everybody up when they paste the code in.

There are two ways to make a Lovable site multilingual and they solve different problems. One serves readers today. The other builds search presence in another language. Picking the wrong one costs you months.

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.

A corner pop-up is the version of this pattern that does not block the page. Here is what it is for, when to trigger it, how to keep it usable on a phone, and what actually matters when choosing software to build one.

A visitor counter is easy to add and easy to regret. Here is what one actually counts, where it helps, where a small number costs you, and how to set one up properly.

A petition needs signatures, and signatures need a form people trust. Here is how to build an online petition form on your own site, what fields to ask for, and how to keep the data clean.

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.

A menu is the most-read page on a restaurant site and usually the worst maintained. Here is how to publish one that is readable on a phone, quick to update when prices change, and not a PDF.

LinkedIn publishes no feed and gates its API, so the usual embedding advice does not apply. Here are the routes that actually work, and what each one costs you.

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.

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.

Code on a web page needs highlighting, a readable theme, and a copy button that works. Here is how to display snippets properly, and the settings that actually matter.

A pomodoro timer is a small thing to build and an easy thing to build badly. Here is what the technique needs, what the settings should be, and how to put one on a page.

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.

A donation button is the shortest path between someone wanting to help and actually helping. Here is how to set one up, and the choices that decide whether it gets used.