Comments on: Blogger upgrades itself

By: Angela Handley

Angela Handley — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:55:47 +0000

Finally someone who could explain this ‘teaser’ hack for old Blogger. Every version I had previously seen assumed I had the Beta and it was driving me mad not to be able to do it in old Blogger. Thank you so much.

Of course, it isn’t quite working for me yet (for some reason it is only displaying the ‘teaser’ part on the full page too) but I am sure it is a technicality that I will soon have figured out. Hooray for old Blogger code and FTP!

By: bothack

bothack — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:13:35 +0000

@Face:
Don’t worry. You wont lose anything. Just make sure you install WP in a different folder in your ftp

By: Face

Face — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:39:48 +0000

I’m on blogger with ftp, wanting to use this information. You said to switch to Wordpress, I’m considering this, but will everything get messed up because i am using FTP. I’m not a programmer, i am just a publisher, working for a company that has IT working the FTP for me.

By: michael

michael — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:43:40 +0000

I’ve been playing w/ this beta for two weeks. Apparently, you’ve had a beta-beta becuase I don’t have half those features on my blogger beta.

I do not get to choose archive drop-downs and its driving me nuts. I also see no color pallets etc..or ajax/2.0 css styling etc.. I only get to chose a new template that works one way in the demo mode and when i actually apply that template much of it doesn’t work.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 04:17:56 +0000

So has anybody figured out a way to make expandable blog posts in Beta-Blogger?

Cheers,

Jim

By: kumar

kumar — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:24:08 +0000

i use the beta version of blogger but i still dont see that part of the settings where i can make my post expandable. would you pls help me to do this.

By: bothack

bothack — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:11:40 +0000

@Kleopatra and operamini:

Blogger beta is bloggers way of copying wordpress.

Simple: The only way blogger scored above wordpress was html editing. Now that one can’t do it in blogger beta and have to use custom made themes. Its no better than wordpress. Actually worse than wordpress cauze it doesnt have half the feature that wordpress has. I would suggest you guys revert back to the old blogger or shift to wordpress.

By: operamini

operamini — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:55:26 +0000

Yes, same question as Kleoppatra.
Page summary hack worked on old blogger.

But how to do the same on beta?
The problem is that conditional tags no longer valid.

By: Kleoppatra

Kleoppatra — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:09:41 +0000

That Hack only works with the normal version. I need expandable posts in my beta blog and it doesn´t work Do you know how could I get expandable posts in beta blogger???

By: bothack

bothack — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:10:45 +0000

@Sri:

Right now yes. you ahve to manually add these tags. But am sure within a few days, blogger will invite you to test their new beta blogger, where you can perfrom this read more function more easily.

If you cant wait for the invite:

I would suggest you switch over to wordpress. Since you can shift all your blogger account posts with comments into wordpress with just one click it shouldnt be a problem. Then you can put a redirection code like I have put for http://bothack.blogspot.com, which will redirect people who visit your blogger account.

Its jsut a suggestion. Blogger rocks and I bet you will get ur invite soon so hang in there… till then you have to use the code.