Blogger FAQ blog

fixes for problems with Blogger's archives, templates, and more

March 15, 2003

General - Where to get help

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It's bad enough that you're having trouble with Blogger, but when you can't even figure out where to look for help, it's eve...
April 21, 2002

Archives - Missing archives II

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Sometimes just the standard turn 'em off, turn 'em on trick to persuade Blogger to republish your archive index with all the archiv...
March 17, 2002

Templates - Complete guide to tags

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Tags that work anywhere <$BlogURL$> Replaced with: The URL in the blog's Settings. Usage: A good value for a "home...
March 03, 2002

General - Discuss forum won't let you post

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Some odd problem—probably related to the way that the Blogger Discuss forum uses browser sessions rather than the cookie that the rest of B...

General - BlogThis/IE6 installer and remover

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If you want to use the fix for right-click BlogThis on IE6, but you absolutely, positively don't want to do your own registry editing, ...
February 09, 2002

Archives - Custom Javascript

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If you are using Javascript to include your archive links in the main page (or are willing to switch ), you might want to try out my new arc...
February 02, 2002

Templates - Adding your blog to an existing page

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Kate 's How to Add Your Blog to an Existing Page, in Eight Easy Steps: Click on "Template" (across the top of the screen w...
January 20, 2002

Templates - Better permalinks on Blog*Spot

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(Updated Friday, May 31, 2002) Background: When I first started using Blogger and Blog*Spot, you had to put "archives/" in fro...
January 13, 2002

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FTP - Unable to get input/output stream The problem with this problem is that it is not a problem, it's a symptom, and a symptom of lo...
December 08, 2001

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General - Right-click BlogThis and IE6 So you just had to download Internet Explorer 6 (or buy a new computer that came with it), and now ...
November 23, 2001

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Archives - Default archive template Even though there is a link at the bottom of your archive template page claiming to lead to the "...
November 22, 2001

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General - Number of posts on the main page There are two confusing things about the number of posts that appear on your blog's main pa...

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General - Fixing bad posts When you make an error in the html in a post (usually by forgetting either the closing quote or the </a>)...
November 19, 2001

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General - Troubleshooting 104 errors First, make sure that it's just you: if you check the "recently updated" on the main Bl...
November 16, 2001

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General - How to delete a blog First, be sure that this is what you want to do: deleting a blog means deleting the templates, settings, an...

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General - Adding reader comments to your blog On Blog*Spot, or off if you don't have server-side scripting (PHP, ASP, CGI): Simple t...
September 17, 2001

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Archives - Switching between included and separate So you found a template you like, but it includes the archive links in the main page an...
August 26, 2001

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Archives - Messed up html Are the archives for your Blog*Spot-hosted blog completely screwed up? Do they repeat at seemingly random interv...
June 30, 2001

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Templates - Changing your name Want to change your name, now that you've realized that Blogger posts the full name you gave when you s...
June 23, 2001

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General - Images in posts on Blog*Spot One of the most often asked questions in Blogger Discuss is "how do I add images to my blog o...
June 09, 2001

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Templates - Using & As "A note about ampersands and JavaScript" at the bottom of the template editing page explains, in orde...
June 05, 2001

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FTP - To GeoCities If you have a free account with GeoCities, then you do not have ftp access (as of April 2002), and so you cannot use Bl...
May 21, 2001

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FTP - Setup basics Blogger needs three things from you to FTP (well, five if you count username & password, seven if you count archive...
May 16, 2001

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General - Moving out of Blog*Spot Why leave Blog*Spot behind? Here are two reasons: at Blog*Spot, when Blogger is down, your blog will not...

Templates - Making relative links work

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Blogger makes relative links (links like <a href="archives/archive.html"> are relative, links like <a href="http://w...
May 05, 2001

Archives - Missing archives

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Are some (or all) of your blog's archive pages missing from the index? Worse yet, are some (or all) of your archive pages themselves mis...
May 03, 2001

Archives - Rewrite the date format for archive links

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Jake has an excellent solution to the problem of ugly 02/04/2001 - 02/10/2001 archive links in the Developer's discussion forum . Once ...
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