January 2012

Templates: blogID in posts widget layout data tag

This might be quite new feature, I just discovered it today (by browsing through template sources): blogID is now available in posts widget...

Blogger's normal search capabilities (search gadget and navbar search) did not work in my blogs, that's why I use CSE (custom search...

This is simple hack, it installs links for collapsing/expanding all comments' texts. You can test the functionality here . You must have...

Blogger announced its own threaded commenting on January 12th. I thought that soon my good old threaded comments hack would not be needed ...

If you make Blogger templates or template based hacks, this info might interest you. In the comments section, usually in <b:includable id...

Recently I made a Google App Engine application in Python, that provides javascript JSONP APIs for different URL shortening services. Read m...

Update Feb 2nd 2012 : Blogger has updated the threaded comments, and it now includes an avatar for anonymous commenters by default. So this ...

Blogger announced threaded commenting today, as I wrote earlier . If you have customized your template, there is a chance that this threaded...

As I wrote earlier today , Blogger has now threaded commenting. There are three ways (that I know) to disable Blogger's new threaded com...

At least some sort of... Here's the announcement: Engage with your readers through threaded commenting . And this is how it looks like (...

Update June 27th 2012: new version here , I suggest you consider using it instead of this. When you open a Blogger blog post, there are lin...

Shortened urls, of blog posts for example, maybe useful in some places (like Twitter). I started first making a hack for Blogger which would...

You may have seen those fancy templates, that display on the main page a snippet of the post's text along with a thumbnail of an...

I have done some "tweaks" for the popular posts gadget, and here's another cosmetic one. The gadget cuts the post snippet at a...

I found out that comments feed no longer contain the direct link (so called "alternate link") to those comments, that the comment ...

Jump breaks are great, but the jump target is not always what you want: exactly at the place where  was. Maybe you'd ...