Simple Blogger Tutorials

It seems that many of you who have enabled Blogger’s Threaded Comments are having problems to view your blog mainly in IE (Internet Explorer) and Chrome (by Google). Problems such as, you are viewing a blank page even if your blog loads or the page freezes in IE and/or the Reply function not working in Chrome. These two things are common and can be fixed for the time being.

It came to my notice that even though you have enabled the proper settings , still many of you have failed to install/see/have the threaded comments and it’s not working on your Blogger template. This is mainly happening to those who have customized their templates or have downloaded it from other sites. Well, I think I have got what it needs to get it back.

You may have seen this in WordPress blogs, now Blogger also has this too, it’s threaded commenting . Blogger has introduced a new improved commenting system for us. So what’s that actually? Well, now it’s possible to reply on an existing comment to start a conversation. It will be displayed as threaded (or nested). See an image example below: Image from Blogger Buzz

In many Blogger blogs you may have found that the default comment form’s width is much smaller than the post body width. When you are customizing the design of your blog then you must be also thinking to increase the width of the Blogger’s comment form. In this simple tutorial I will tell how to expand it. Normally, the default width for the comment form of Blogger is fixed at 425 pixels . So we just need to override this with a CSS definition.

Today we will learn to highlight author or admin comments in Blogger so that your comment as administrator stands out from comments posted by others. Blogger has advanced and many new codes are added. So to highlight the author or the admin comment in Blogger you have to just apply some simple trick to activate it. But however, this tutorial is not meant for those who have enabled threaded comments . Here’s an advance method to do it. You will find that not the comment body but the whole section of your comment as admin or other comments as author will change. So first just follow the steps:

Blogger is advancing day by day by enabling some cool new features that most of us do want to have for our blogs. Today after login in to Blogger’s dashboard I have found out that Blogger enabled automatic spam detection for the comments but astonishingly they didn’t enabled it to all of the blogs.

Let us have a look how would you like to setup your comment settings for blogger . Go to Settings > Comments tab to configure it. Comments: Select “Show” to show the comments in each posts. Select “Hide” if you want to hide the existing comments, it will not delete the old comments. Who Can Comment: Select specifically who can comment to your posts. Comment Form Placement: Select the type of comment form you want. Full page - opens a new tab (window) Pop-up window – a pop-up window will appear Embedded below post – better known as inline comment form for blogger Comments Default for Posts: The options are “New Posts have Comments” which will automatically add the comment option to “Allow” as default for each and every post that you will publish, in your post editor. “New Posts Do Not Have Comments” will “Disallow” the commenting option by default. Backlinks: Show or hide backlinks for each posts. Backlinks Default for Posts: you may like to read the help file about...