Blogger Tips And Tricks 2012

Official Twitter Share Button (Tweet Button) for Blogger

@Twitter has now officially released new Sharing Buttons with counter(Tweet Button). The button comes in three styles and has a new URL shortener(t.co). The tweet button will show how many times your post has been shared on twitter. The main advantage of the Tweet button is that it will let the reader to follow you(and a related account) after he tweets your post.If you have a wordpress blog, then use the Wordpress Tweet Button PluginTo install the new tweet button on blogger, Follow these steps 1 . Configure the Tweet Button using this Simple Installer(Code and Demo will be updated according to the details that you provide here) Demo:frame...

Blogger Custom Domain on GoDaddy

This tutorial will explain how you can set up Blogger on a domain which you bought via GoDaddy.I assume that you have already bought a domain from GoDaddy. Here are the detailed steps for configuring your Blogger Custom Domain with GoDaddy. 1.Login to this GoDaddy Tool Enter your domain name there e.g.: www.bloggerplugins.org 2.Click on the confirm button and a CNAME record will be created for you and you will get a success Message saying that the DNS records were created 3. If you are publishing to your www domain, then that’s not sufficient. You will also have to create a set of 4 A Records. To do that first login to your GoDaddy Account...

The Complete FeedBurner Guide with Some Cool Enhancements

What is Feedburner? Feedburner is a service(now owned by google) which helps you in publishing your feeds in a better way.It helps you analyze your feeds,keep track of your visitors,know the number of feed subscribers etc. How to Use Feed Burner? 1.Login to Feedburner.com using your Google account 2.Copy your blog url,or your blog feed url and paste that url at feedburner.com 3.If you pasted your blog url(yourblog.blogspot.com) instead of your feed url (yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default),then feedburner should be able to fetch your feed url automatically.[If you don't have a malformed template] 4.In the Next Step Give Title...

Height Fixer For Blogger

Making the Sidebar and the Post Area to be of Same Height Some of the simple blogger templates use CSS to set the background color of the sidebar and the main post part.In this case,the heights of these two columns can be different making it look a little awkward.In many cases you may want to make both of these columns of the same height. If you didn't understand what i am talking of,then i will show you some demos. Check out the sidebars of bothBlog Without Height Fixing – Link Blog After Height Fixing – Link The height adjustment can be done using a very simple javascript code.Actually i had to make something like this for another site of mine.So i thought of sharing this with you guys, Here is the height fixing script. <script type='text/javascript'><!--onload=function()...

Link to me widget for blogger

This is a nice little widget which can find its place in your blog’s sidebar.You might want to let your readers link back to you in an easy way.We will now make a new Link To Me Widget which will display the code needed for a reader to link back to your blog.We will also provide a Add link using Blogger Button. This button will work like a widget installer,which makes it easier for your readers to add your link.They can link back to you easily by adding your link to me widget. How to make the Link to me Widget? 1.First of all Make a Small Logo of your blog,which can easily fit into any blog sidebars.It should be small and pretty :P 2.Now...

What can you expect from blogger in the future?

If my guesses are correct,blogger will soon come up with post summaries(+ read more link) and static pages. Some of you might have noticed the changes to your blogger templates.I have seen some new codes which give me the feeling that something better is coming! Blogger May Soon have Static Pages like in Wordpress This code gives me the feeling that blogger too will soon have Pages like in Wordpress Blogger May soon have the Read more link and Post Summaries. - Blogger has now added this Functionality. This thing has been around for a while. This code should probably give the indication that we will soon see post summaries...

Alternate Comment Forms For Blogger

Have you ever felt that the blogger comment form (even the embedded inline one) doesn’t look pretty.Don’t worry you can convert the default comment form of blogger to an stylish commenting system which enables threaded comments and author images.Here i am listing some of the most popular commenting alternatives,. These are the three famous commenting systems! 1. Intense Debate – To give you a better demo,i am using the intense debate commenting system on this post.This is now owned by Automattic, the makers of Wordpress.This is my personal favorite and i am now confused whether i should switch to this or if i should...

How to add Retweet Button to Blogger

Update: Twitter has now Released its own Retweet Buttons - So check it out at Official Tweet Button from Twitter With CounterHow to add retweet button to Blogger ? Twitter is getting more and more famous and so is retweet Most of you might be knowing of both of this.Still i will give a brief into on both :PTwitter – Twitter is a free social networking site that enables users to send short notices of 140 characters. :PRetweet – This one enables to repost some interesting tweets on twitter.The retweet button can act more like a tweet counterAdding a retweet button will show a neat count of how many times,your post has been...

Blogger Releases the new version of the Label Widget

Blogger,as a part of its 10th Birthday celebrations, has now released a new version of the label gadget.This one is much better that the old version What is new? It comes with a Label Cloud. It lets you choose which labels are to be displayed. You can customize it further using CSS. Drawbacks The cloud just has 5 variations.All labels will be divided into 5 classes depending on the usage of these labels. It would have been better if there was a bigger number of classes. How to Customize? You can customize the looks further by using CSS..As i said it has 5 classes of clouds..You can add CSS styles to each of them....

New Advanced Post Editor For Blogger

Blogger has released an updated version of the Post Editor.This one has more features than the old post editor.Here is a screen shot of the new Post Editor,so that you can get an overview of what is new in this advanced post editor. Some of the added Features in this new Editor are: Improved Image Handling Improved Raw HTML Geotagging Resize the Post Editor Vertically Easy Link Editing in Compose Mode Better Previews Draggable Placeholders A New Advanced ToolBar How to Enable the New Post Editor Go to the Settings Page, and under the global Settings, Opt for the Updated Editor and save the settings....

The Best Blogger Resources

There are many many sites about blogger. Here i would like to share with you all blogger related sites which i love. All of these are my personal favourites.So i thought of sharing them with you guys! All of these sites provide tutorials,gadgets and templates which can be used on Blogger. Blogger Tutorials and Gadgets Amanda Fazani She writes at Blogger Buster and Gadgets For Blogger . Blogger Buster is the Best Blog on Blogger Tutorials. Gadgets For Blogger is a directory which list all useful gadgets that can be used on blogger. Amanda also designs templates which can be found at Blogger Buster Designs and she also has...

Post Summaries on Blogger With Read More

Blogger is fulfilling some of our expectations. Now blogger officially supports Post Summaries With Read more.This means that you wont need any JavaScript and CSS based tricks to display post summaries on Non-Post Pages. How Does This WorkBlogger has introduced something called jump breaks. This will help you in creating the summary. What is a jump break? - Jump break is a special tag which can be inserted anywhere in a post using the post editor.When you have inserted a jump break into a post, the portion of the post above(or before) the jump break will serve as the summary of the post. This means that only this smaller portion will be displayed...

Numbered Page Navigation For Blogger

Page Navigation is a really awesome and long awaited feature. You might have seen numbered page navigation on many wordpress blogs(wp-pagenavi by Lester Chan). Muhammad Rias of Techie Blogger had already developed a page navigation system for blogger.It really was an awesome trick which was made at a time when nobody could even think of implementing it on blogger.It had some minor bugs and now Abu Farhan has perfected it and he has now given us the perfect page navigation solution.Here is a little screenshot of what this is all about. When you use this hack,you will see this kind of navigation on your blog’s home page and label pages(needs...

Show avatars on Blogger Comments

Blogger is now introducing features every day as part of its 10th birthday celebrations.Now it has formally announced the Blogger Comment avatars. To know what it means take a look at the comments here on this blog and you will see the profiles pictures of the commentators near to the comments.If you are using some default blogger template things would be much easy.Here is a little screenshot of the new feature. Implementation of Comment Avatars 1.First of all Go to Blogger > Settings >Comments and enable “Show profile images on comment” 2.Now if you have a normal un customized template you will see the avatars on the comments on...