The New Followers Gadget - Blocking Followers
With the pre 2016 Followers gadget, the Followers population for a blog was managed through an Options link on the Followers gadget . This required t…
Gadgets
The Featured Post Gadget, With Multiple Posts
The "Featured Post" gadget is a useful tool, for spotlighting individual posts . One of the limitations of the gadget is that it, like many…
Blogger Magic - Using "Add a Gadget"
One of the most useful features of Blogger is the ability to add many different accessories, to a blog. There are accessories, for every blog - and f…
Dynamic Templates, And Improved "Follow by Email"
We see some concern about providing email subscriptions, from blog owners in Blogger Help Forum: Get Help with an Issue . How do I provide email subs…
Claiming Your Blog, In BlogLovin
When you use the BlogLovin supplied instructions to claim your blog , you will get a BlogLovin link, with an embedded token, which you install in yo…
Use A Canonical URL, With Page URL Conditionals
Not all blog owners can successfully add a conditional display of a template object, to their blog. Some owners carefully copy the conditional code t…
Put A Notice, To Your Followers, On Your Blog
Thanks to the Followers rewrite - and the Followers database cleanup - this blog has lost over 500 Followers. Blogger Support suggests that we shoul…
Start Your Blog Simple, Learn As You Go
Some new blog owners put a lot of effort into designing a shiny template with lots of features, but omit blog content - or spend time carefully tunin…
The Blogger Followers Gadget Is Available - Really!
Some blog owners can't figure out how to add the Blogger Followers gadget, to their blogs. We see occasional confusion, in Blogger Help Forum: Ge…
Blogger Followers / Google Friend Connect ReWrite
Blogger is rewriting the Followers gadget, and removing some lesser used features. One of the features seeing some change is Followers Authentication…
Diagnose FaceBook Gadget Problems
Adding a FaceBook developed gadget is - or should be - just like adding any HTML / JavaScript gadget . Sometime, though, adding a FaceBook gadget ju…
A New Blog Feature - Featured Post
Last week, Blogger Engineering announced their latest feature, "Featured Post" . Whether you’d like to re-share that delicious holiday reci…
The Followers / Friend Connect Gadget Works, Again
In a separate project, I was updating this blog - and in previewing my changes, I observed the familiar demur We're sorry. This gadget is configu…
Many Blogger Email Delivery Problems Are Reported
We have a number of problem reports, from various blog owners and readers, about email from Blogger, posted daily in Blogger Help Forum: Get Help wit…
Newsreel Gadget Broken
Last week, Google turned off the long deprecated Google Feed API . Among many Blogger features that were affected , were 4 identified gadgets. Feed N…
Broken Feed Gadgets, From Google API Deprecation
Google makes changes to their software environment, constantly. This week, they deprecated the Google Feed API . Unfortunately, many Blogger gadgets…
XML Gadgets Do Not Work In HTML Templates
One of the more intriguing questions, seen occasionally in Blogger Help Forum: Learn More About Blogger , is about blog accessories, and template ant…
BlogRolls Are Good For Casual New Reader Activity
Blog owners use many techniques for getting new readers - and for keeping existing readers happy. Some blog owners use techniques which work inconsi…