Label Cloud Widget For Blogger / Blogspot

A tag cloud or label cloud for blogger is a visual depiction of all labels used on your blog.You can see a demo of the Label cloud for blogger(blogger label cloud) here on my site. This Tag Cloud Widget was originally developed by phydeaux3. This is a modded version of phydeaux’s Cloud. This is much better than the Blogger’s Default Label Cloud. First of all Go to Your blogger Layout > Page Elements page and add a Labels Widget there..You can Do that using the Add a Page Element Option on that page. After Adding the Label Widget Go to Layout > Edit Html (Do not expand the widget templates for the sake of easy explanation) You will find...

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Star Ratings on Blogger

Blogger has added a Star Ratings  Feature for us. It helps the visitors to rate your blog posts using 5 stars :).  If you want to see a preview of how this looks, then go to this post page and try rating this post. I you are interested in implementing the ratings feature on your blog, then read on and follow these simple steps.   How to Enable The Star Ratings  Feature?   Login to Your Blogger in Draft Dashboard at http://draft.blogger.com (May not be available in your regular dashboard) Go to Design > Page Elements and Click on the Edit Button near the Blog Posts Gadget and check the “Show Star Ratings”...

Yahoo Search Widget Blogger / Blogspot

I have mostly seen google search boxes on most blogs.So i thought of implementing a cute looking yahoo search box widget for blogs.The yahoo search widget can search either your blog alone or the entire web.This is just a simple search widget which will nicely fit into your blogger sidebar.. This search box has the yahoo branding logo inserted within the search box.By default the search widget will search your blog.The user can opt to search the entire web if he wants..Your blog must be properly indexed by yahoo for this to work efficiently..The To install the widget you may use the widget installer below..Note:-If you are reading this in a...

Increase Width of Blogger Comment Form

Blogger’s Embedded Comment Form comes in a fixed pixel size. So it might look bad in templates which have a wider post area. so how can we make it look better? – Just adjust the Comment form and increase its width. So here is what the Transition will look like :)   would change to   How To Increase the Width of the Comment Form? 1.Go to Blogger Dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML and opt to expand the Widget Templates. 2. Now look for the code which looks like <iframe allowtransparency='true' class='blogger-iframe-colorize' frameborder='0' height='275' id='comment-editor' scrolling='no' src='' width='100%'/>...

Reactions on Blogger

Blogger has added a reactions Feature for us. It helps the visitors to react to your blog posts in an interesting way. Blogger has got a default set of reactions(funny, interesting, cool). You can edit them and add your own. If you want to see a preview of how this looks, then go to this post page and mark your reactions :) I you are interested in implementing the reactions feature on your blog, then read on and follow these simple steps.   How to Enable The reactions Feature?   Login to Your Blogger Dashboard Go to Design > Page Elements and Click on the Edit Button near the Blog Posts Gadget and check the “Reactions”...

Print your Blogger Posts by adding a Print Button

A “Print this Post” button would be much useful on blog posts(especially on tutorial and recipe blogs). Before adding the Print this button to your blog, you have to make your blog Printer Friendly. You can do this by adding some CSS to your blogger template. You can decide which parts of your blog page should be printed and which parts shouldn’t be. For example it would be better if your blog’s header , sidebars and comments don't appear in the prints. We can achieve this adding some printer specific CSS. If you want you can check out how this page will look when printed, Click File Menu of your Browser and Click Print Preview. You will...

Top Authors Widget For Blogger / Blogspot

Blogger allows multiple users to contribute to a single blog.So some of your blogs may have multiple authors.This widget is for all those blogs which have multiple blog authors.The top authors widget displays the list of top authors together with the number of posts each of the top authors has made.This statistics is based on the latest 5000 posts on the blog.How to Install the Authors Widget For Blogger ?Now you should have a working Top Authors widget on your blogger blog!This widget will encourage your blog team authors to write more and more..Source: http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2009/04/top-authors-widget-for-blogger-blogspot.ht...

How to setup a FTP blog on blogger

Many of you might have heard of the blogger's ftp publishing feature. There is another feature called custom domain with blog hosted on google servers (we will discuss about this in some later post).Blogger FTP Publishing with your domain: This lets you to publish blogger posts on your own domain(like yourdomainname.com) instead of the default blogspost domain(yourblog.blogspot.com). This requires you to have a domain name and good web hosting. The blogger post pages,home page and other pages will be published as html files on your hosting account.So this requires you to buy a domain name and a hosting account.Custom domain with hosting on google...

Shutting Down Do Follow

I am shutting down the Do Follow movement due to excessive spammy comments on blogs.. Nowadays new webmasters are becoming so spammy that they hire guys to comment on DO FOLLOW blogs. I have been receiving a lot of these now a days.. and so it was almost impossible to reply to genuine comments. I keep on moderating the comments but it is a tedious task considering the number of spam comments i am getting..Sorry to the genuine commentators.. From now on i will try to reply to your comments as soon as i can.Source: http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2009/06/shutting-down-do-follow.ht...

Breadcrumb for Blogger

Breadcrumbs or breadcrumb trail is a navigation aid used in user interfaces. It gives users a way to keep track of their location within programs or documents. The term comes from the trail of breadcrumbs left by Hansel and Gretel in the popular fairytale. The trails like Home » Label » Post Name are the breadcrumbs. Here is a screenshot of a Breadcrumb Trail Now that you know what a breadcrumb is , let us get into the details of adding the same to your Blogger Blog. 1. Go to Template > Edit HTML and  check the check box which says Expand the Widget Templates. 2. Now in the Template, Find<b:include data='top' name='status-message'/>and...

How to setup custom domain for your blogger blog?

What is a Custom Domain ? When you register your blogspot blog, you will get a new blog with some URL like http://yourblogname.blogspot.com . This blog will be hosted on Google’s servers and you can make posts on your blog by logging in at Blogger.Com. Now Custom domain means that we will be using our own domain name instead of having the .blogspot.com extension. That is our blog URL will look something like http://www.yourblogname.com When you use a custom domain, your blog will still be hosted on Google’s servers and you can continue making posts from Blogger.Com as you usually do.So the only thing that changes is the blog’s URL How much does this Cost? For using a custom domain you should buy your own domain name. The price of the domain name will vary depending on the domain extension...

Adsense Below the post title in Blogger

Your blog earnings depend mainly on your blog's traffic and on your ad placement. One important place to place the ads is below the Post title. It will give more importance to the ads and there is more possibility to get clicks. This is in accordance with the Google Adsense TOS I am personally using the same hack on this blog. You can see adsense ads below the post title on all my  pages.Ok now let us get into the details of how to set it up. First of all login to your adsense account and generate ad code of optimum size.. Now copy that adsense code into the following box and parse it(you may not see the parser if you are reading...

Back To Top / Scroll To Top Widget For Blogger / Blogspot

You might have seen a Scroll to Top or Back To Top button on many sites and blogs.You can see a similar button here on my blog.Ok what is the advantage of using a scroll to top or back to top widget?When you add the scroll to top widget you will get a button on the right corner and when a user clicks on it he can get back to the top of the blog.How to Install the Back to Top Widget for Blogger<style type="text/css">.backtotop a:hover {background:none;}</style><div class="backtotop"><a style="display:scroll;position:fixed;bottom:5px;right:5px;" class="backtotop" href="#" rel="nofollow" title="Back to Top"><img style="border:0;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-DVAgdI3rd2ytNNCcD9iQ4Te00W3siSjrl0S11XI603xAuqjFT5RI0cPsQudH-ioPc5AlY9zwXX5axXBTAjPwGTUsz4VbyYBZuR424pihTwrQDWQFLw-1pDlGdn-yaGPaN2SfQxm6qg/s400/back-to-top.gif"/></a></div>I...

Automatic Post Summaries for Blogger with Thumbnails

img align="left" class="postthumb alt=" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo4nXGi3fvJJ8yJbRQzdB2USg1_2lMzkJ-x8Wv4V0VZgjix8mgAXsBE897eXfgzYNbyJb5TYwNJ4g2aB-6ShT_8a_Eo4HvyvXU53PkLZVTNXhNpRWvFxeTdNGJwuYecPhdF0UxVG1O5eY/s400/read-more.jpg"> Wordpress users might have seen the Wordpress excerpt thing, which displays a summary of your post. Now we have something similar for blogger.Actually i should say it is really amazing..This hack will automatically create post summaries with thumbnails.. you needn't need to add any extra code in every BlogSpot that you make..These summaries will be displayed on all pages other than...

Creating a Separate Archive Page or Labels Page for blogger

Many bloggers dont prefer to display the blog archive and the labels on each and every page of their site. They may wish to create a separate page for the Blog Archives. I have made one such implementation of a blog archive here . You can also check out my label cloud page .So i think you guys understood what i am trying to explain. Ok lets get into the details of doing this. Blogger allows little bit of programming.Those who have coded using C or any simple programming language might surely have used the conditional if statements. The same thing is there for the blogger template also.learn about these conditional tags over here and come back..So how are we going to do this..First we will make a blank post with an appropriate title.In this case i have made a post with title "Label Cloud"...