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Warning ! When you change your blogger template
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Labels: News

Blogger is adding additional features day-by-day and its very important to every blogger to get the new updates being made. So I decided to add a special column in my blog to publish the changes and new updates made by Blogger Team.

Here comes my first post in the category of news, its about the great change made by blogger to warn while you are changing the template. Many of us are bored with routine templates and changes it frequently, during this process we may lost our gadgets/widgets added to our blog.

The warning includes the confirmation message which includes options :

KEEP WIDGETS or DELETE WIDGETS

You can also see this in the below picture..

Anyhow these basic features helps us in many ways.

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To republish or change date of your old posts
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Monday, February 15, 2010

Labels: Tips-Tricks

I'm writing this post after a long break and here its about 'How to republish your blog posts' or 'How to change the date of your already published blog posts'.

You may be a serious blogger writing about many things in your blog. After sometime all those posts will be added to archives and can be visited through searches only. By using this simple trick you can change the date of your old post and can get it on your home page.

Normally a post editor looks like this :

Now click on post options and it expands like this :

Now, change the date in the 'Set date and time' box to current date and click on publish post. Now this older post will be published as a new one on your blog home page.

Click on images for clear view.Still find any difficulty just post a comment.

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To add "Google Buzz" button to every post in blogger
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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Labels: Tips-Tricks

To add Facebook Share button and twitter retweet button to blog are already posted and now its time for Google Buzz. G-buzz is already competing with twitter and facebook. By adding "Google Buzz" button to your blog users can buzz your posts with a single click of it.

Get this button by following the simple trick. Note that this is not oficially released by google.

Step #1
Go to Dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML and click on Expand Widget Templates.

Step #2
Find this code in template

<div class='post-header-line-1'/>

Step #3
Now, after line that paste this code

For Compact size button

<a expr:href='"http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=" data:post.url "&title=" data:post.title "&srcTitle=" data:blog.title' target='_blank'><div style='text-align:right; margin-top:10px;'><img alt='Buzz It' src='http://i46.tinypic.com/ouprt1.jpg'/></div></a>

For Large size button

<a expr:href='"http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=" data:post.url "&title=" data:post.title "&srcTitle=" data:blog.title' target='_blank'><div style='text-align:right; margin-top:10px;'><img alt='Buzz It' src='http://i45.tinypic.com/2ezjtj9.jpg'/></div></a>

To change the position of the image just change the code in red to your desired values.

Step #4
Save the template. Find any difficulty just post a comment.

Images source : CS

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