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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Blogger Hacks

Blogger Beta is a minor upgrade for Blogger users who have their own domain and do not use the hosted option. But thankfully the software has been around long enough now that hacks have been created for virtually any missing functionality. The following is a round-up of the ones that are used on this site. All are free and most can be easily modified.
  • In order to get Labels to appear on the right navigation column I followed the steps documented in the Blogger Guide to FTP Labels
  • Comment functionality in Blogger is a bit clunky. Follow this guide to integrating comments using Blogkomm. This is one of the most challenging hacks to implement but worth it if you make the effort.
  • For search engine optimisation I reversed the order of the page titles on permalink pages using this hack from Freshblog. So instead of all my page titles leading with the blog name, the search engine friendly titles start with the title of the story.
  • Post titles are clickable on the home page of the blog thanks to another Freshblog beauty.
  • My list of archive months was getting a bit lengthy and taking up unecessary space in the right navigation so it was useful to implement this drop-down-menu solution
  • Thanks to 3spots and Freshblog for the very cool Popmarks button you see on the bottom of each post that allows users to bookmark or subsribe easily to RSS without all the clutter of buttons for the various services. It took a bit to customise it to my needs but it is easy to customise what services are available through it so I think it will really come in handy in the future.

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