Tutorial: Create a ShopStyle Widget For Your Outfits

I recently figured out (thanks to a tremendously helpful email from Elaine!) how to create these lovely customized ShopStyle widgets to include in my posts:


My Current Lemmings:

Mid-length Skirts by Ann Taylor

And since I was actually stumped on how to create this widget for awhile, I thought I'd write up a brief tutorial to explain to anyone else who is wondering the same thing.

1. Create a ShopSense account here.
2. Go to ShopStyle and log in using that account.
3. Search for your items and "Favorite" the ones you want to include in the widget.
   
   
4. Once you're done favorite-ing your items, then go back to ShopSense.
5. Go to Tools -> Layout Editor.  Then click the link to Launch Layout Editor.  
6. You should now see your favorite items on the left-hand side.  Simply drag your items to the layout.  The positioning of the items doesn't matter as the actual layout will not be used.
   
   
7. Make sure you click the Save button on the bottom right once you are finished with the layout.  The Save button will disable for a few seconds while the layout is saving.  Wait until the Save button becomes reenabled before continuing. 
8. Go back to your original ShopSense window and now select Widgets -> Look
   
   
9. Under Step 2, you should now see a widget created that contains all of the items contained in your previous layout. Now just copy the code provided in Step 3 and paste it into the HTML source of your post.
10. That's it!  Now you will get a small commission for every link clicked through from your widget.  :)

I hope this  was helpful! 

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