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Mom Blog Network's Drupal Widget System

Today, we announced the official launch of our new widget and API system for Mom Blog Network, the "sister site" to MothersClick. We're excited not only because these products are great new features for our users, but they also highlight the successful development of our community application.

Drupal widget system on Mom Blog Network

As an extension of our custom, Drupal-based white-label solution that powers the ParentsClick Network, our widget system ties in directly to new content being generated across our network of sites. In the case of Mom Blog Network, as moms vote on various posts making them popular, our widget system catches this data and sends it to a custom PHP processing engine that dynamically builds and serves the widgets. The advantage to this system is it allows us to support millions of widgets without invoking Drupal each time to serve them -- we like our servers :)

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