How to Put your ALLi badge on your Author website

When a member joins the Alliance of Independent Authors, we send a snippet of code to use on their website to display their badge. Below are instructions in how to use in the most popular website platforms.

Put your ALLi badge on your Author website: Developer

If your website was created by a developer, forward the code to them. For an experienced coder, this is a task that just takes moments.

Put your ALLi badge on your Author website: WordPress

Whether you are using WordPress.com (free blog) or a self-hosted WordPress blog, the process is similar. Look at the front end of your blog and get an idea where you are going to put your badge – most likely in one of the sidebars, probably on the right.

Visit your Dashboard.

Go to Appearance >Widgets.

Once you are in Widgets you want to look to the right of the page to see how your widgets are set up.

(You can put the code for your badge in a footer if you like – just open the footer, copy and paste the code. Save and that is done.)

If you want to put your badge in one of the sidebars you will have to drag a Text widget into the sidebar where you want it. Then open the text widget and paste your code. Save and Close.

Check the front end of your blog and click your new badge to see where it takes you. If you end up at the ALLi website, you can pat yourself on the back for a job well done!

Put your ALLi badge on your Author website: Blogger

Go to Layout
Decide where you want your badge to appear, if it is the sidebar, go to the top of the sidebar and click “Add a gadget”
Scroll down until you come to HTML/Java Script and click the plus sign in the top right corner.
Copy the line of code we sent you, paste it in the text box and SAVE.
You know you can move the stacked “bricks” around to make your badge appear where you want it to appear.

Remember, you don't need to do anything with the image of the badge – just cut and paste the code into your blog or website.

Congratulations, your badge should be there for all to see!

Put your ALLi badge on your Author website: Squarespace

Decide where you want your badge to appear. The following are the ways Squarespace recommends to insert custom code:

• Adding HTML – Code Block
• Inserting JavaScript – Code Injection
• Displaying raw code as plain text – Code Block with “Display Source” checked

Check your website to ensure it loaded correctly. And congratulations! Now everyone knows you are part of a professional self-publishing association.