Post Thumbnails for Blogger

Post Thumbnails for BloggerI had got quite some number of questions regarding how I display post thumbnails here on my blog. So I decided to write a tutorial about the different methods that you can use to display post thumbnails. Post Thumbnails will look good on your blog if you are using the Blogger Jump Break Feature to efficiently control the post excerpt that gets displayed on non-post pages.  So here are the methods:

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Grid Layout For the Popular Posts Widget

Grid Layout For Popular Posts BloggerA few days back, I published the JavaScript version  of the Recent Posts widget, and I loved the Grid Layout of the Widget. One of the most popular Widgets used by Bloggers is Blogger’s Official Popular Post Widget. So I decided to edit the gadget, and give it the Grid Style.

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Recent Posts Widget with Thumbnails

Recent Posts Widget for Blogger will display the latest posts from your blog on your blog's sidebar along with images, summary and more. You can customize the widget using the different options provided in the widget installer.At least some of you would be familiar with My "Recent Posts with Thumbnails" Gadget for Blogger. I had got so many complaints that the Gadget fails to load or has some issues. The issues come from the Blogger Gadget API framework and so I decided to port that gadget and make a Widget version of the same.This version doesn't depend on the Blogger Gadget API and doesn't have any such issues.This is a pure JavaScript Widget which doesn't depend on any APIs or frameworks.

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New UI on Your Blogger Dashboard

New UI on Your DashboardThe Blogger’s new UI has now migrated from Blogger Daft to the regular Dashboard.If you are a regular reader here, then you must have already seen screenshot of the new UI. Blogger has now made some improvements to  the new UI, and has plugged it into the regular dashboard.The new UI also includes an option to Edit your Template Code.

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Changing Blogger Mobile Template

Changing Blogger Mobile TemplateThe Blogger Mobile templates is something pretty cool, and blogger provides you with 27 mobile templates to choose from. You cannot completely customize the mobile template(as of now) but you can pick any of the available templates.

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Google Scribe in Blogger

Google Scribe is an Auto text completion tool which was launched in Google Labs an year ago. Google has recently added this feature to the Post Editor in its Draft version. Google Scribe helps you write more efficiently by auto completing words and phrases as you type. Google Scribe supports Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish and the language is automatically detected using the text in the post.



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Change Blogger Favicon Easily Without any Code Changes

The new Blogger Dashboard allows you to change your blog’s favicon with a few clicks. . The feature has been around for a while now and most of you might already be using it.This tutorial is for the ones who don’t

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