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.
Continue ReadingNumbered 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. 
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. 
If you are not using the New Post editor,then you will have to manually type the jump break tag . To do that just place <!-- more --> [Note that there is a space before and after more.] at the position where you want the break to occur. Now try going to your home page,and only the summary would be displayed on the home page.You might get problems seeing the Read More Link if you are using a modified and highly customized template. In that case try the following adjustments. Go to your Blogger Template > Edit HTML . Now check if the following code is already present in your template
If this code is not present in your template,then add this code before
Now it should work properly.. If it doesn't,then leave a comment here and i will try to help you out..
For the post summaries to work effectively, you have to edit each of your posts and add the jump link in each of them. Blogger wont generate summaries automatically.:(
How Does This Work
Blogger 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 on Non-post pages.How to insert a jump break?
If you are using the New Advanced Post Editor, then you can insert the jump break easily from the post editor's Compose mode. <b:if cond='data:post.hasJumpLink'>
<div class='jump-link'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url + "#more"'><data:post.jumpText/></a>
</div>
</b:if>
If this code is not present in your template,then add this code before
<div class='post-footer'>
Now it should work properly.. If it doesn't,then leave a comment here and i will try to help you out..
Changing the Read More Text
By default the read more link text is Read more » . You can change this to whatever you like. To do that, Go to Blogger Layout page and click on the Edit link on the Blog Posts Widget.
Change the Post Page Link Text and Save the Settings..
Drawbacks of the New Feature
For the post summaries to work effectively, you have to edit each of your posts and add the jump link in each of them. Blogger wont generate summaries automatically.:(
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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.
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.
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