Reduce keystrokes

A Select Automatic as blog publish date in the Post Options under post editor – this will force the post to be published as on current date.

A In Design | Page Elements | Blog Posts Gadget, select edit and uncheck the time checkbox:

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• Go to wordle.net pasting in the words, weighted if you want bigger tags.
• Click on randomize until you are happy with a cloud, you can also change the look on the fly by selecting a different color or font.
• I wanted to match the background colour with one on my blog. I downloaded Hex color finder which gives you the hex value when you select a color from the screen by clicking and dragging the screen color picker button. This can be used to fill into the background value in wordle under Color | Edit Custom palette…
• To resize the image click on Open in Window and resize the window which opens. Then use a screen grabber such as PicPick to save the image. You can also use PicPick to edit the image and overlay any text you might want to write on top.

  You will need to experiment with the size until it works right on your page. Alternatively if you know the image size which works for you, e.g. I use 340×250 on Skinny Word.

• Add a header gadget in blogger design, which allows you to load an image instead of title and description.

A It can be done using feedburner, all instructions at tipsbloggers.com.

A Edit the post and find the html inserted when you uploaded the image, before the </a> at the end place:

<div style=”text-align:center;”><<Your caption>></div>

Replacing <<Your caption>>

A Expand widget templates and find this line

• <b:include name=’feedLinks’/>

replace it with the url of your feedburner

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1. Add the name of the author as a Label to their posts
2. In Layout add the links of the Labels in a Link List gadget: http://MYBLOG.blogspot.com/search/ label/AUTHOR_NAME. Replace the CAPS. Clicking that link will bring up all posts by that author.
3. You can drag and drop the Link List gadget from the posts column to the sidebar.
4. If you have a tag list it will now show authors, the alternative is to add a separate tag list like the authors. Note that this will not dynamically update with new tags.

A Edit the post and you will see a Post options link, where the date can be edited. Posts are shown in date order.

AOne used to have to setup say a a google group for all your email addresses. However, in the BlogSend field in the setting email tab, one can now enter a comma delimited list of email addresses.

A Since May 2007 this is no longer possible

A From blogger-tricks wrap the <table> in:

A <br/> does not work, it worked for me with the fudge <ul></ul>

A Edit your template html on the design tab and add your css commands, I put mine towards the bottom.

A A slideshow can only be embeded in a post and not a comment. An easy bit of code will do this, see lifehacker.

A Edit the template, change the #main-wrap1 width and correspondingly the #outer-wrapper width, see betabloggerfordummies.

A Check out the Trick and Tips Tutorial Blogger How to Hide Your Post Date, Time and/or Author.

A You can add a recent comments widget (uses javascript). This has some configurable parameters but I would still like to be able to:

• show the relevant comments under each post rather than at the bottom of the blog
• show the last comment last rather than first
• show the comment time
• show the comment box rather than click for a popup

In Settings | Comments there is now an option to select “Embedded below post”

A To delete any comment in your blog, you have to construct an url of the form: http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=#blogpostid&postID=#commentid. Read instructions for forming the url on bloggerstop.net.

An option to delete comments was added earlier this year.