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Adityavm — Sat, 12 May 2007 07:39:10 GMT

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Request Hacks

Adityavm — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:11:48 GMT

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Looking for a section that used to be here? Solved hacks are moved to the [[Request Hacks/Solved|Solved Requests]] page, along with links to the solutions. Feel free to move your own requests there when solved.

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Do you want a particular feature for your blog? Are you pretty sure that it is possible? Add a new section to this page describing your requirements in detail and linking to examples, or to the site that you'd like to edit. I can't promise that your need will be met, but I hope to guarantee that it will be seen by people who can help.

To help the community to understand what you're looking for, please include:

# A full description of the feature that you're looking for.
# An explanation of the purpose.
# A link to your blog, or to any other resources / examples that you want to use.

The more detail you are able to provide, the more likely it is that another user will be able to assist you.

==New Requests==

===Clicking a Label will show limited post===
Presently, when we click on a label, say with 100 post, then blogger show all 100 post in a single page. Is there any hack through which we can limit it to say, Five with link to see next five and so on?

===Cookies for peek-a-boo===
Remember the state of peek-a-boo comments in a cookie and maintain that state when the visitor next comes. Doable, but probably take a bit. Suggested at http://singpolyma-tech.blogspot.com/2006/10/comments-on-mainarchive-page-peek-boo.html#c116591239141648939

===Hide Posts From Homepage And Archive Pages===

I want to hide certain posts from the home page and the archive pages, but I still want to show the post on its own page. Eg:

Hide Post: MYBLOG.blogspot.com/

Hide Post: MYBLOG.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html

Show Post: MYBLOG.blogspot.com/2007/01/POSTNAME.html

Also, I'd like to hide these certain posts from the RSS/Atom feed.

I don't know very much about how Blogger's special template markup works, but I saw some stuff that looks like it is possible to do if/then logic.

Maybe have if/then logic saying

if on home page
if post has label [name of hidden label]
then don't show post

I think that may be possible but I'm not sure just how.

* This could turn rather ugly, especially if you want to use Blogger's native language. You'll have to put whole chunks within [b:if] tags, which will become hard to debug later on. I suggest a more direct, Javascript-ed approach, which will check the 'labels' container for a matching string, and hide the whole post if TRUE. Does that sound better? --[[User:Adityavm|Aditya]] 09:11, 19 March 2007 (EST)

===Hide sidebar previous posts on some recent posts===
'''Description:'''
As I use the Blogger navigation in my sidebar myself a lot, so I have added the 'previous' Blogger template code to the main archive and both a 'previous' and 'recent'(using Social bookmarks javascript linkroll) section to item pages sidebars so I'm sure I can access all my posts easily.

'''Problem:'''
This works fine on old posts but on the first newer posts (item pages) they both show nearly the same links, so I would like to hide the 'recent' sidebar block, on say, the the first 3 new posts.

'''Link:'''
The [http://3spots.blogspot.com/ blog in question].

Any idea how I could do that?

Thanks, it's a great idea this wiki! [[User:Ycc2106|Ycc2106]] 07:04, 24 July 2006 (EDT)

===Merge blogs===
Basically, I have 6 personal blogs on my Blogger dashboard. That's because I wanted categorization before Blogger Beta introduced labels. For a number of reasons, I want to merge my blogs into one. If there is a way to import all the posts from one blog into another, that would be an ideal solution. Please advise or create a hack to do this, thanks in advance. My blog is here at [http://www.shan.ca.tf www.Shan.ca.tf]

===Blogsend: No Linkback to Main Blog===
I have a [http://usurpingivy.blogspot.com Blogger Blog] that I've been updating since the Dawn of time, but my friends are all on LiveJournal. Using the Blogsend function, I'm able to update the [http://usurpingivylj.livejournal.com LiveJournal] without actually ever stepping foot on LJ, BUT the issue becomes that BlogSend automatically adds a footer with a linkback to the main Blog. I need to figure out a way to circumvent that, for privacy reasons on my main blog and to protect my guestbloggers. Any ideas? Thanks!!

===Tag Hack for Qumana ===
I want to use Qumana for my post editing for Blogger. It works much better with Blogger than Performancing. But I want to change the tagging option from Technocratii to RawSugar (as exists with the great BlogThis/Tag hack.)

My guess it's a simple business of changing the urlsoemnwhere in the Qunama script. Where? How?

===Way to Add The Digg Button To a Beta Blogger Blog Hack===
This [http://diggbutton.blogspot.com/ tutorial] for the digg button for a blogger blog doesn't work in the new beta blogger. I would appreciate it if someone made a digg button code for the new beta blogger. If you'd liek to know what kind of template I use, if that will help you, check [http://allaboutadsense.blogspot.com/ All About Google Adsense].Thank You in advance.

===Chronological order of posts (Blogger/Blogspot)===

Hello together,

first off i'd like thank everybody who has put his/her effort into this wiki in order to have a platform for hacks and new ideas...

Ever since i started blogging i wanted to have the possibility to reverse the order in which the posts appear on my blog's mainpage. And please don't get me wrong, I'm well aware of the very nature of a blog and therefore having all the new stuff on top.

BUT: I'm running a team blog with a handful of friends and we're often posting stories in sequence or referencing things that one of our members was writing in the past...

So the problem is, when one hasn't checked in to read the latest stories for quite a while, he looses the context and must read the older posts first to understand the current ones.

Before we migrated to the new version of Blogger we had a solution based on this hack: [http://www.inventric.com/blog/2004/12/change-order-of-blogger-posts.html]

A quick look into the new widget-model and XML-stuff of the new Blogger system revealed the total incompatibility of this hack.

'''So the question is, does anybody know how to realise this along with the new Blogger or at least know how the looping of the posts inside that post widget works?'''

==Discussed Requests==

===Comments on archive pages (Blogger/Blogspot)===
Hello together,

Is there a way to sort comments on archive pages with the newest one on top?
* Please see [http://www.bloggerforum.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=12550&forum=6&post_id=50795]

=== Previous posts to increase number of backlinks ===
Hi bloggers,do you know the thing that your blogs show only 10 previous posts? Can anyone help me to increase the number of previous posts,say to 50.I want blogger to show atleast 50 previous posts on my pages.I tried some feed hacks but they show only recent posts thus no backlinks for older posts.Suggest me a hack or a simple manupulation such that i can get atleast 20 or 30 backlinks to my all posts.
* This module does not seem to really exist any more. I may be wrong, but I think this only even exists on Blogger Classic. The new hierarchical blogger archives really do a good job of mixing this kind of thing with archives :)

===Inversed and Subdivided Comments Section Hack for New Blogger Templates===

- Requested Hack posted on Saturday, January 27, 2007 by [http://technofocus.blogspot.com/2007/01/inversed-and-subdivided-comments.html Alain]

'''Comments Section modifications'''

Interactivity with readers through a specific Comments Section opened to Blogger and Non-Blogger members is one distinguishing characteristic that seduces me about New Blogger. I’m a new comer into the blogosphere and I’m not totally satisfied with my actual New Blogger Comments Section. I would like to modify the Comments Section of my New Blogger Minima Stretch Template with one column in such a way that it would reflect more my ideal desired Comments Section. My ideal Comments Section Hack would eventually display the following major features:

'''Major features of my Ideal Inversed and Subdivided Comments Section Hack'''

* 1. Comments Section displayed at the bottom of the Post Page from the newest comments to the oldest instead of the oldest to the newest;

* 2. Maintenance of all the default functionalities of the New Blogger Comments Section (like the Post a Comment link and the accessibility to the commenter profile by clicking on his name for examples);

* 3. Comments Section displayed in subsections of ten comments at a time at the bottom of the related Post (I’m not sure yet if subsections of 5 comments rather then 10 would be best for my needs since I anticipate that some comments of my potential readers might be relatively long) ;

* 4. Navigation elements at the top and the bottom of the Comments Section to easily access the other subsections of comments;

* 5. Possibility and flexibility to set up the new informational text related to the navigation elements of the Comments Sections into different languages (particularly French);

* 6. Optimal loading performance of the Comments Section and Subsections;

* 7. Compatibility with the New Blogger Templates (particularly Minima Stretch);

* 8. Compatibility with the hacks presented in the Blogger Hacks Wikipedia (particularly expandable peek-a-boo, peek-a-boo widgets, peak-a-boo label and archive on the main page, author’s comment highlighting, recent comments and recent posts widgets, hiding NavBar, Top of Page/Top of Post Navigation elements );

* 9.Compatibility with the latest and most used versions of the major browsers (especially IE and Firefox).

* 10. Clear installation instructions breaked down into detailed steps. Explicit stipulation of the performance tests that the created hack has been submitted to accompanied with the known positive and negative results of these tests. Long term support availability in order to be able to cope with future Blogger or Browser upgrades for examples.

'''Examples'''

''For concrete prototypes or similar examples of what my Ideal Inversed and Subdivided Comments Section Hack request is about, please see the Comments Section of the following sites:''

* [http://hackosphere.blogspot.com/2006/12/now-available-neo-template.html Hakosphere ]

* [http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/item/suckertree-menu-horizontal/ Dynamique Drive (Sudivided Comments Section example only)]

* [http://www.gortbusters.org/?q=node/2191#comment Gortbusters (Comments Viewing Options feature)] ( I don't want this specific feature in my requested hack but I think it's cool if someone want to test various possiblities for viewing comments in just one place)

'''Openness and Flexibility'''

I’m not a programmer and I have formulated my request with the best of my own limited knowledge about the potentials and the limits of New Blogger Templates. Considering this fact, I just want to specify two things. First, I’m open to any adjustments that my Inversed and Subdivided Comments Section request may require in order to match with the potentials and limits of the New Blogger Templates. Second, since I have already witnessed that some of the members of the New Blogger hackers community are not just programming masters but also creative and original innovator, I’m open as well to any new feature(s) for my Inversed and Subdivided Comments Section request that I didn’t think of and that would improve it in one way or another. Just one wish! KISS! Keep It Simple and Smart.

'''To the interested'''

Is there a New Blogger hacker ready to try the challenge to satisfy my explicit request and maybe other New Blogger members latent desires as well for free? If you are interested in this challenge, please let me know at [http://technofocus.blogspot.com/2007/01/inversed-and-subdivided-comments.html Techno Focus].

Everybody is invinted to comment this particular hack at the end of this request or at [http://technofocus.blogspot.com/2007/01/inversed-and-subdivided-comments.html Techno Focus].

If you need more information about this Inversed and Subdivided Comments Section Hack request, please feel at ease to ask me at [http://technofocus.blogspot.com/2007/01/inversed-and-subdivided-comments.html Techno Focus].

Salutations! from Québec, Canada.

[http://technofocus.blogspot.com/2007/01/inversed-and-subdivided-comments.html Alain]

====Comments on ''Inversed and Subdivided Comments Section Hack''====
'''This is a manual Inversed Comments Section:''' Please copy and paste the heading below
in the edit background and put it over your own comment for the next commentator.
Thanks!
* On (''The date''), [''Your Name''] said...

(''Your comment here Please'')

* On March 7, [http://technofocus.blogspot.com/2007/01/inversed-and-subdivided-comments.html Alain] said...

'''Conversations tracking services consideration:''' Hoctro, I don’t know if you have noticed but Ramani’s neo comments section (Hackosphere) doesn’t allow anymore conversations tracking services like Co.mments. From my point of view it’s a big disadvantage of his neo template. I also tend to believe that the possibility to use a conversation tracking service will be an important consideration for many bloggers that will be tempted by implementing any kind of hack on their comments section. Regards!

* On Febuary 8, [http://technofocus.blogspot.com/2007/01/inversed-and-subdivided-comments.html Alain] said...

'''Commenting is going to be Hoctro next set of hacks:''' Hoctro from [http://hoctro.blogspot.com/2006/12/what-should-i-write-about.html Hoctro's Place] has expressed the willingness to give a shot at new hacks in relation to the Comments Section.

“''4lain,''
''By coincident, commenting is going to be my next set of hacks. I think what you said is doable. Seeing the NEO template from Ramani without looking at his code, I think he uses JSON to get the data back, then display them & other pagination stuff. I'm going to try that on my own too.''

''Cheers,''”

Wow! That's cool. I can't wait to witness his technical and creative skills at work.

* On January 30, [http://technofocus.blogspot.com/2007/01/inversed-and-subdivided-comments.html Alain] said...

'''Neo-like Comments:''' Ramani from [http://hackosphere.blogspot.com/2006/12/now-available-neo-template.html Hackosphere] has expressed a position regarding my hack request on his blog.

“''On January 28, Ramani said... Alain, That's a pretty detailed hack request from you. Due to lack of time, I don't think I can make Neo-like comments for other templates. Also, there are so many templates out there. But, other hackers can give it a shot.''”

Disappointed? Yes! But I really appreciate that he took the time to clarify his position regarding my hack request despite that he’s presently going through a busy period at his work.

'''''End of the Comments on Inversed and Subdivided Comments Section Hack'''''
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===Specify the Number of Labels Displayed===
I recently switched to Blogger Beta and have edited all my posts to remove technorati tags and add labels. This, however, generated a very long list of labels in my sidebar. I would like to be able to specify how many labels I want displayed, such as the top ten for instance.

I have looked at Hackosphere, phydeaux3, and Hoctor's Place. All of the code there, however, does a lot more than I need. So I was hoping there would be a simpler hack for this.

My blog is located at http://mentisworks.blogspot.com, and thank you very much in advance!

* The inbuilt Labels widget in Blogger has an option to limit the number of labels being displayed. Is that what you're looking for? --[[User:Adityavm|Aditya]] 04:04, 17 January 2007 (EST)

===Archives: drop-down menu with titles===
I can't find a way to make the blogger(beta) drop-down menu show titles of the post, instead of the date. I think it'd be extremely helpful, especially for blogs which are not updated very often.

Or maybe do you have an idea how to make this a stand-alone widget? Probably using the site's feed?

* Are you looking for something like the archives display [http://hackinggrounds.blogspot.com here]? --[[User:Adityavm|Aditya]] 04:08, 17 January 2007 (EST)

===Have The Last Word===
As a blogger, I welcome a large number of comments on my controversial posts. Being opinionated, I like to have the last word too. While I monitor discussions, keeping track of whether or not each post is "open" (ie I haven't had the final say) is difficult.

I'd like a tool that will provide me with a list of my posts that have comments where the last one wasn't written by me, along with the contents of the last comment and a link to the appropriate comment editing page for that post.

I imagine I could go to a page, enter a URL and my blogger name, then click a button. The results page would consist of a list of links and comments. Dates might be nice too. It wouldn't need to be integrated into my blog, be very stylish or even reliable, since it's just a tool I could check periodically when feeling bored.

It might have an option to show only posts where I have commented but I am ''not'' the last commenter. This would be handy for blogs that I don't own, but comment on frequently.

The building blocks for such a solution might include:

* "My comments blog" (HTML) via [[Comment Feed Using Another Blog]]
* "My comments feed" (RSS) via above
* [http://www.ts0.com/bloggercomments/ Thom's] [[Comment Feed using remote parser]]
* [http://www.anniyalogam.com/scripts/browser.php Ramani's] [[Archive Browser]]
* [http://anniyalogam.com/blog/2006/06/29/one-click-notification/ Ramani's] [[One-click Notification]]

Any takers?

-Greg.

* Aren't we talking something like [http://cocomment.com coComment] or [http://co.mments.com co.mments], etc? -- [[User:Singpolyma|Singpolyma]] 09:21, 7 November 2006 (EST)

===Want to have differnt pages for main page and post pages===
Am using blogger classic right now. I want to have a diffent page for the main page of my blog and some other page for the inner pages ( the post pages of my blog).
Actually i dont want to display any adsense ad on the main page. I want ads to appear when some one reads my post page or archive page.

Example: Digital Inspiratiaon[http://labnol.blogspot.com]
In this blog there are no ads in the main page. But when you click the post tile,the post opens and there are ads in the post.

Please help me.
My blog is Technical Bliss[http://technicalbliss.blogspot.com]
I must remind you again that am using the old blogger.
If someone can help me, just leave a msg on my blog. I will be highly thankful.

* This has been done (not sure if it's in a way that works for the old Blogger, but I'll check). I'll try to find it for you. Please realise, however, that if I cannot find it you are not likely to find someone willing to create hacks for the old Blogger -- we've all moved ;)

===fixed blog index page (kind of a blog home page) ===
'''Description:'''
i'm trying to make a blog for my phd research and i want to make it like a webpage but with the perks of the blogger. so i'd like to have a fixed intro page with a description of my research and then use the labels to divide the blog into relevant areas similar to a webpage. right now i've added the tab label hack from hackosphere.

'''Problem:'''
i just need a simple way to have one post permanently displayed when someone loads the blog and then they can click on the labels/tabs to see the rest of the blog like a webpage.

'''Link:'''
The [http://mmwiseresearch.blogspot.com/ blog in question].

thanks

'''Solution'''

at least a possible solution.... Check out [http://blogfresh.blogspot.com/2006/08/expand-collapse-categories-with.html Caramuel's category hack]. This hack allows you to categorise your content, but also allows you to force the display of a given category when your main page loads.... So, put your intro / sticky post in its own category, then force that category to load as the default....

===Hide the labels field from the main page and post pages===
Labels are nice and all, but they take too much space off the main page and post pages. I still want to label my posts, but I don't want to display them after each post...

'''Solution'''

A possible solution courtesy of [http://basangpanaginip.blogspot.com/2006/09/how-to-fix-comment-count-grammar-in.html Michael] and [http://hoctro.blogspot.com/2006/09/tweaking-new-blogger-feeds-on-front.html Hoctro], both of whom have played with Blogger Beta's new "if / then" logic to create the conditional display of content on certain kinds of page. I'd recommend that you leave your labels on your post pages, so that readers can see how you've categorised a post, & follow the link to a category that they're interested in,... but hey, it's your blog! This will probably work w/ minimal customisation.

===Want Visitors List at bottom of each post, in Blogger Beta===
I'd like to have a list, at the end of each post, that gives the name of all the people who left a comment, and links that name to the website URL they left in the comment form. You can see what I mean here: http://wystful1.blogspot.com/
At the end of each post is a 'Visitors List'.

Can someone tell me how to implement this for Blogger Beta? Thanks.

http://caylynn.blogspot.com

* Commentor names / links to their comments would be entirely possible modding [http://singpolyma-tech.blogspot.com/2006/10/comments-on-mainarchive-page-peek-boo.html my peek-a-boo hack], commentor URL would require hugely more scraping (and may not be possible at all). If anyone finds a way please let me know, though, it would be nice in my hack! - [[User:Singpolyma|Singpolyma]] 09:39, 7 November 2006 (EST)

==[[Request Hacks/Solved|Solved Requests]]==

Search blog from within Firefox

Adityavm — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:46:02 GMT

Adityavm:

==Platform==
Firefox 2.0+

==Author==
Aditya Vikram Mukherjee

==Homepage==
[http://lastword.blogspot.com/2007/03/search-your-blog-from-firefox.html Search your blog from Firefox]

==License==
[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ Creative Commons]

==Required Skills==
Should be able to paste a line, and know the basic details (name, URL) of their blog, and have an icon to use (not compulsary).

==Description==
Adds a discovery for your blog to the search box in Firefox. Anyone else can then select and add it to their search box in case they'd like quick access to the search on your blog.

==Method==
Paste one line of code, and change the required variables. Instructions on [http://lastword.blogspot.com/2007/03/search-your-blog-from-firefox.html home page]

==Sites Using This Hack==
* [http://aditya-mukherjee.com The Last Word]

==See Also:==
* [[Native Blog Search]]
* [[Native Search Suggest]]

[[Category:Firefox]]
[[Category:Search]]
[[Category:Hack]]

Native Search Suggest

Adityavm — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 07:23:41 GMT

Adityavm:

==Version==
2.0

==Platform==
New Blogger, Blogger Classic, Everything else

==Author==
Aditya Vikram Mukherjee

==Homepage==
[http://lastword.blogspot.com/2007/03/you-wanted-suggest-you-got-suggest.html You wanted suggest? You got suggest!]

==License==
[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ Creative Commons]

==Required Skills==
Enough knowledge of Javascript to figure out basic functions, and modify them to make this compatible with other hacks.

==Description==
Adds suggestions to existing search boxes based on previously made searches on the blog/site.

==Method==
Follow the instructions on the [http://lastword.blogspot.com/2007/03/you-wanted-suggest-you-got-suggest.html home page].

==Sites Using This Hack==
* [http://www.aditya-mukherjee.com The Last Word]

==See Also:==
[[Native Blog Search]]

[[Category:New Blogger]]
[[Category:Blogger Classic]]
[[Category:Hacks]]
[[Category:Suggestions]]
[[Category:Search]]

Native Search Suggest

Adityavm — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 07:19:27 GMT

Adityavm:

Google Reader list custom widget

Adityavm — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:52:14 GMT

Adityavm:

==Platform==
New Blogger, Blogger Classic, Others

==Author==
Aditya Vikram Mukherjee

==Homepage==
[http://lastword.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-reader-list-custom-widget.html Google Reader list custom widget]

==License==
[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ Creative Commons Deed]

==Required Skills==
Need to copy-paste some code for the <head>, add an HTML widget and add some code to that. Should be able to modify CSS to be able to style the content properly.

==Description==
Displays posts from a selected label from Google Reader, in a more style-able form, with some more features than the one offered by Google.

==Method==
Follow instructions [http://lastword.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-reader-list-custom-widget.html here]

==Sites Using This Hack==
* [http://lastword.blogspot.com The Last Word]

[[Category:New Blogger]]
[[Category:Hack]]
[[Category:Hacks]]
[[Category:Blogger Classic]]

Google Reader list custom widget

Adityavm — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:51:42 GMT

Adityavm:

==Platform==
New Blogger, Blogger Classic, Others

==Author==
Aditya Vikram Mukherjee

==Homepage==
[http://lastword.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-reader-list-custom-widget.html Google Reader list custom widget]

==License==

==Required Skills==
Need to copy-paste some code for the <head>, add an HTML widget and add some code to that. Should be able to modify CSS to be able to style the content properly.

==Description==
Displays posts from a selected label from Google Reader, in a more style-able form, with some more features than the one offered by Google.

==Method==
Follow instructions [http://lastword.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-reader-list-custom-widget.html here]

==Sites Using This Hack==
* [http://lastword.blogspot.com The Last Word]

[[Category:New Blogger]]
[[Category:Hack]]
[[Category:Hacks]]
[[Category:Blogger Classic]]

Auto captions to images

Adityavm — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:37:24 GMT

Adityavm:

==Platform==
new Blogger, Blogger Classic

==Author==
Aditya Vikram Mukherjee

==Homepage==
http://lastword.blogspot.com/2007/03/add-captions-to-images.html

==License==
[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ Creative Commons]

==Required Skills==
Should be able to paste one script line, and some CSS styles. To modify the style, one should know basic CSS.

==Description==
Automatically adds a caption to images specified with specific attributes.

==Method==
By pasting a script tag into the head area. Follow the instructions on the home page.

==Sites Using This Hack==
*[http://lastword.blogspot.com The Last Word]

[[Category:New Blogger]]
[[Category:Images]]
[[Category:Captions]]
[[Category:Blogger Classic]]
[[Category:Hack]]

Asynchronic post list loading from label in sidebar

Adityavm — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:21:04 GMT

Adityavm: /* Homepage */

==Platform==
New Blogger

==Author==
Aditya Vikram Mukherjee

==Homepage==
* [http://lastword.blogspot.com/2007/01/dont-leave-page-labels-widget.html Original]
* [http://lastword.blogspot.com/2007/02/dltp-labels-widget-updated.html Updated Version]

==License==
[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ Attribution/Non-commercial/No derivative]

==Required Skills==
Should be able to modify the template, and widget code. Some CSS knowledge to style the lists would be recommended.

==Description==
Loads the posts from a label, as a list right under the label in the sidebar widget. The load is asynchronous, and toggle-able with memory (multiple labels can be opened and closed at the same time).

==Method==
Paste codes on [http://lastword.blogspot.com/2007/01/dont-leave-page-labels-widget.html homepage] and follow given instructions.

==Sites Using This Hack==
[http://lastword.blogspot.com The Last Word]
(add your sites)

==See Also:==
[http://www.editthis.info/bloggerhacks/AJAX_Labels AJAX Labels]

[[Category:Hacks]] [[Category:New Blogger]] [[Category:Labels]] [[Category:Categories]] [[Category:Navigation]]

Blogger Smilies

Adityavm — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:04:16 GMT

Adityavm:

==Platform==
New Blogger, Blogger Classic

==Author==
Aditya Vikram Mukherjee

==Homepage==
[http://lastword.blogspot.com/2007/01/blogger-smilies.html Blogger Smilies]

==License==
[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ Creative Commons Deed]

==Description==
Replaces text smilies to their graphical versions by adding small icons/emoticons to the post and comment body.

==Method==
Copy/Paste one line of code to the <head> area of the template.

==Sites Using This Hack==
* [http://singpolyma-tech.blogspot.com/ Singpolyma - Technical Blog]
* [http://hackosphere.blogspot.com/ Hackosphere]
* [http://blogger-hacked.blogspot.com/ Blogger-Hacked]
''(Would like blog owners to add their pages to this list)''

==Extensions / Alternates==
[http://blogger-hacked.blogspot.com/2007/01/comment-buttons-user-script.html Deepak's comment buttons userscript]

[[Category:New Blogger]]
[[Category:Blogger Classic]]

[http://arephyz.blogspot.com Arephyz Mix Content Blog]

[[Category:New Blogger]]
[[Category:Blogger Classic]]

Blogger Smilies

Adityavm — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:03:38 GMT

Adityavm:

==Platform==
New Blogger, Blogger Classic

==Author==
Aditya Vikram Mukherjee

==Homepage==
[http://lastword.blogspot.com/2007/01/blogger-smilies.html Blogger Smilies]

==License==
[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ Creative Commons Deed]

==Description==
Replaces text smilies to their graphical versions by adding small icons/emoticons to the post and comment body.

==Method==
Copy/Paste one line of code to the <head> area of the template.

==Sites Using This Hack==
[http://singpolyma-tech.blogspot.com/ Singpolyma - Technical Blog]
[http://hackosphere.blogspot.com/ Hackosphere]
[http://blogger-hacked.blogspot.com/ Blogger-Hacked]
''(Would like blog owners to add their pages to this list)''

==Extensions / Alternates==
[http://blogger-hacked.blogspot.com/2007/01/comment-buttons-user-script.html Deepak's comment buttons userscript]

[[Category:New Blogger]]
[[Category:Blogger Classic]]

[http://arephyz.blogspot.com Arephyz Mix Content Blog]

[[Category:New Blogger]]
[[Category:Blogger Classic]]

Keep current date and time on posts

Adityavm — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:01:01 GMT

Adityavm:

==Platform==
New Blogger

==Author==
[http://aditya-mukherjee.com Aditya Mukherjee]

==Homepage==
[http://lastword.blogspot.com/2006/12/keep-current-datetime-on-posts.html Keep current date/time on posts]

==Description==
Is effectively a port of Jasper's Greasemonkey script which did the same thing, to the new Blogger since his broke with the upgrade.

==Method==
Install a Greasemonkey script from the home page linked.

[[Category:New Blogger]]
[[Category:Post]]
[[Category:Greasemonkey]]
[[Category:Date]]
[[Category:Time]]

Designer Dates

Adityavm — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:00:44 GMT

Adityavm:

==Platform==
New Blogger, Blogger Classic

==Author==
Aditya Vikram Mukherjee

==Homepage==
http://lastword.blogspot.com/2007/01/date-to-behold.html

==License==
[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ Attribution/Non-commercial/No Derivative]

==Required Skills==
Must be able to edit the template, replace code and work with CSS

==Description==
Takes the Blogger dates, and turns them into something more customizable and design-able for truly beautiful looking dates. First seen at [http://lifehacker.com Lifehacker].

==Method==
Follow instructions on homepage

==Sites Using This Hack==
[http://lastword.blogspot.com The Last Word (beta)]
(users kindly add your pages to this list)

[[Category:Hacks]]
[[Category:New Blogger]]
[[Category:Date]]
[[Category:Design]]

Blogger Stickies

Adityavm — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:59:25 GMT

Adityavm:

==Author==
[http://aditya-mukherjee.com Aditya Mukherjee]

==Homepage==
http://lastword.blogspot.com/2006/12/blogger-post-notes.html

==Description==
Adds a sticky type text box to the post editor which can be used to maintain notes about a post. It remains persistent through saving and publishing the post, so your notes will always show up.

==Method==
Install a greasemonkey script from the page linked to above.

[[Category:New Blogger]]
[[Category:Blogger Classic]]
[[Category:Emoticons]]
[[Category:Smilies]]

Designer Dates

Adityavm — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:56:21 GMT

Adityavm:

==Platform==
New Blogger, Blogger Classic

==Author==
Aditya Vikram Mukherjee

==Homepage==
http://lastword.blogspot.com/2007/01/date-to-behold.html

==License==
[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ Attribution/Non-commercial/No Derivative]

==Required Skills==
Must be able to edit the template, replace code and work with CSS

==Description==
Takes the Blogger dates, and turns them into something more customizable and design-able for truly beautiful looking dates. First seen at [http://lifehacker.com Lifehacker].

==Method==
Follow instructions on homepage

==Sites Using This Hack==
[http://lastword.blogspot.com The Last Word (beta)]
(users kindly add your pages to this list)

[[Category:Hacks]] [[Category:New Blogger]] [[Category:Dates]] [[Category:Design]]

Asynchronic post list loading from label in sidebar

Adityavm — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:55:36 GMT

Adityavm:

==Platform==
New Blogger

==Author==
Aditya Vikram Mukherjee

==Homepage==
http://lastword.blogspot.com/2007/01/dont-leave-page-labels-widget.html

==License==
[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ Attribution/Non-commercial/No derivative]

==Required Skills==
Should be able to modify the template, and widget code. Some CSS knowledge to style the lists would be recommended.

==Description==
Loads the posts from a label, as a list right under the label in the sidebar widget. The load is asynchronous, and toggle-able with memory (multiple labels can be opened and closed at the same time).

==Method==
Paste codes on [http://lastword.blogspot.com/2007/01/dont-leave-page-labels-widget.html homepage] and follow given instructions.

==Sites Using This Hack==
[http://lastword.blogspot.com The Last Word]
(add your sites)

==See Also:==
[http://www.editthis.info/bloggerhacks/AJAX_Labels AJAX Labels]

[[Category:Hacks]] [[Category:New Blogger]] [[Category:Labels]] [[Category:Categories]] [[Category:Navigation]]

Asynchronic post list loading from label in sidebar

Adityavm — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:47:21 GMT

Adityavm:

Designer Dates

Adityavm — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:09:42 GMT

Adityavm:

Blogger Smilies

Adityavm — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:54:44 GMT

Adityavm: /* License */

==Platform==
New Blogger, Blogger Classic

==Author==
Aditya Vikram Mukherjee

==Homepage==
[http://lastword.blogspot.com/2007/01/blogger-smilies.html Blogger Smilies]

==License==
[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ Creative Commons Deed]

==Description==
Replaces text smilies to their graphical versions by adding small icons/emoticons to the post and comment body.

==Method==
Copy/Paste one line of code to the <head> area of the template.

==Sites Using This Hack==
* [http://singpolyma-tech.blogspot.com/ Singpolyma - Technical Blog]
''(Would like blog owners to add their pages to this list)''

==Extensions / Alternates==
[http://blogger-hacked.blogspot.com/2007/01/comment-buttons-user-script.html Deepak's comment buttons userscript]

[[Category:New Blogger]]
[[Category:Blogger Classic]]

Native Blog Search

Adityavm — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:54:22 GMT

Adityavm: /* License */

==Version==
1.5

==Platform==
Old/New Blogger (both)

==Author==
Aditya Vikram Mukherjee

==Homepage==
http://lastword.blogspot.com/2006/12/native-blog-search-improved_6559.html

==License==
Code can be modified to suit personal needs, as long as the link back to my page is not removed. And if you be nice and add your blog to the list at the bottom? :)

==Required Skills==
Nothing very technical. The codes are provided with enough guidelines to be able to help anyone include it in their template and begin using it. A little familiarity with the new template (knowing how to alter CSS, conditional tags) will help in extending the hack to be more specific and customised, but it is not required.

==Description==
It provides an 'in-blog' blog search, which cuts out the Google blog search page completely. Results are loaded asynchronously, hence the searcher does not have to leave the page to get the search results. It can be styled to match the template, hence the search looks as 'native' to the blog as possible.

==Method==
There are three blocks of code. One for the <head> section, which holds all the functions. One is the search form itself, and one if the container tag to hold and display the results. Each one has been explained properly as to how to include them in your template.

The <head> section part required one variable to be configured, which has been highlighted in the included instructions.

==Sites Using This Hack==
http://bloggeratto.blogspot.com

==Extensions / Alternates==
This is something like Google's AJAX Search API. Google's API is better, but harder to implement and achiever more or less the same thing.

[[Category:New Blogger]]
[[Category:Blogger Classic]]

Request Hacks/Solved

Adityavm — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:20:33 GMT

Adityavm: /* Sending email notification to ALL contributors when a posting or a comment is added */

This page is for hack requests that were on the [[Request Hacks]] page, that are believed to have been amply solved. If one of these hacks is yours and you do not feel the hack is sufficient, please move your hack back to the other page ''and attach a note as to what more must be done.'' Thank you.

==Solved Requests==

===Sending email notification to ALL contributors when a posting or a comment is added===

'''Description'''

We are a team who uses a blog to submit ideas and propose solutions to each other.

'''The Problem'''

So far we have not yet found a suitable and easy way to get all the contributors in the blog notified when a posting or a comment is submitted.
We have looked at the settings and found that as regards postings it only allows the individual submitting a posting to receive notification and as regards comments, only the administrator to receive notification.
In both instances only one email address is allowed in the field.

'''A solution'''

Anybody with enough technical expertise [which we inthe blog do not have] could try and guide us towards a solution?

The blog in question is: http://edtf.blogspot.com

Thanks for your help.

Max

Max: May I suggest a comment feed? These are standard in Blogger beta, but there are plenty of versions that will work for regular blogger. One possible solution... use the blogger comment notification e-mail address to post new comments to a specially set-up google group, the have all of your team members join the group. They'll be able to get notice of the updates by e-mail, or use a feedreader to subscribe to the group's feed. See [http://blogfresh.blogspot.com/2005/12/another-comment-feed-hack.html Freshblog] for more info.

* Comments feed subbed to by email is definitely the textbook answer. Another option could be to have the Gmail account that is receiving notifications (you ''are'' on Gmail, right? ;) ) filter the incomings to auto-forward to all members. - [[User:Singpolyma|Singpolyma]] 09:26, 7 November 2006 (EST)

* On the same lines, maybe a Google group with all the contributors as members, then the notifications sent to the e-mail address of the group? That will automatically alert all the contributors in one go! --[[User:Adityavm|Aditya]] 04:20, 17 January 2007 (EST)

===Author Comments===

'''Description'''
I want a way to make it so when I comment on my own posts, my comments appear with a different font color.

'''Link'''
Ramani of [http://www.hackosphere.blogspot.com/ Hackosphere] uses it on his blog. You can see it in action [http://hackosphere.blogspot.com/2006/09/tweak-your-label-tabs.html#comment-4855462521027722202 here.] I just don't know how to do it.

Author Comments Highlighting comes to us courtesy of Aditya at [http://the-lastword.blogspot.com/2006/02/author-comments-highlighting-hack.html The Last Word]. Enjoy.

* Another option is [[Comment Photos and Highlighting]] (the photos are totally optional) - [[User:Singpolyma|Singpolyma]] 09:28, 7 November 2006 (EST)

===Expandable Posts in Blogger Beta===
'''Description'''
I want a way to make expandable posts like we saw in [http://5memes.blogspot.com 5Memes]. The problem is that the hack in this wiki teachs how to make that on Blogger's template, but Blogger's Beta Templates are different and they don´t have the Style tags.
'''Link'''
[http://5memes.blogspot.com 5Memes]

* See [http://hackosphere.blogspot.com/2006/09/expandable-post-summaries-with-beta.html] or [http://hackosphere.blogspot.com/2006/11/selective-expandable-posts.html] -- there are others and a new one that takes less bandwidth should be forthcoming

===Make link go to wikipedia===
I want <nowiki>[[foo]]</nowiki> to go to the Wikipedia page called "foo". How?

* That's a page outside this wiki, so you'll need a single square bracket, full url, space, link anchor word, closing single square bracket, like this:

<nowiki>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo Foo]</nowiki>

===Pick up labels in adding to delicious (beta)===
I know there is a known hack to add capability to link to delicious from beta blogger posts. But right now it does not pick up labels of the post and create automatic tags for delicious bookmark. I know it should be not so difficult to include the tags for the delicious link.

I am quite used to the current Greasemonkey method to tag my non-beta blog posts and am itching to move to the new beta, but this is one big roadblock for me.

Any takers?

http://usctrojan98.blogspot.com

* I have completed this [http://singpolyma-tech.blogspot.com/2006/12/for-new-blogger-blogger-delicious.html on my blog] :)

===My feeds for autodetection (beta)===

Is it possible to add my feedburner feed in the beta blog so that autodetection is done on the feedburner feed rather than the default Atom feed or even the beta blogger RSS feed?

http://usctrojan98.blogspot.com

* See these comments over on FreshBlog: [http://blogfresh.blogspot.com/2006/10/bloggerhacks-wiki-hack-requests.html#c116121280680448240 #1], [http://blogfresh.blogspot.com/2006/10/bloggerhacks-wiki-hack-requests.html#c116132102586042259 #2], [http://blogfresh.blogspot.com/2006/10/bloggerhacks-wiki-hack-requests.html#c116145957573341917 #3] - [[User:Singpolyma|Singpolyma]] 09:32, 7 November 2006 (EST)

===Label Hacks===
I am curious to know if we could have a Label Cloud thats displays the most labels most used on my blog page.
OR
I also wish to know if I can display the most used lables on my blog instead of the whole list of labels.

https://tarunsblogs.blogspot.com

* See [http://phydeaux3.blogspot.com/2006/09/code-for-beta-blogger-label-cloud.html Code for Beta Blogger Label Cloud] and [http://phy3blog.googlepages.com/Beta-Blogger-Label-Cloud.html Setup and configuration for Blogger in Beta Label Clouds] - [[User:Singpolyma|Singpolyma]] 09:35, 7 November 2006 (EST)

===Related Posts from your blog under a post you just wrote===

I'd like to have a short list of related posts that I have written on my blog underneath the post I just wrote. I've seen this hack on non beta blogger, but have yet to see it on beta. Thanks.

http://frugallawstudent.blogspot.com

You might want to check out [http://singpolyma-tech.blogspot.com/2006/09/freshtags-singpolyma-2.html FreshTags for Beta]
Or [http://hoctro.blogspot.com/2006/11/blogger-hack-related-articles-widget_24.html Hoctro's hack]
Or [http://purplemoggy.blogspot.com/2006/12/related-posts.html PurpleMoggy's Hack]

=== Add Calendar===
How can we add calendar to our blogs, especially highlighting the dates on which have entires marked?
I believe this is one of the oldest problems at Blogger's. The label part is added hopefully the calender will be too.

http://tarunsblogs.blogspot.com

I have written a [http://singpolyma-tech.blogspot.com/2006/12/blogger-calendar.html Blogger Calendar] hack :)

Blogger Smilies

Adityavm — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:16:43 GMT

Adityavm:

==Platform==
New Blogger, Blogger Classic

==Author==
Aditya Vikram Mukherjee

==Homepage==
[http://lastword.blogspot.com/2007/01/blogger-smilies.html Blogger Smilies]

==License==
Creative Commons

==Description==
Replaces text smilies to their graphical versions by adding small icons/emoticons to the post and comment body.

==Method==
Copy/Paste one line of code to the <head> area of the template.

==Sites Using This Hack==
(Would like blog owners to add their pages to this list)

==Extensions / Alternates==
[http://blogger-hacked.blogspot.com/2007/01/comment-buttons-user-script.html Deepak's comment buttons userscript]

[[Category:New Blogger]]
[[Category:Blogger Classic]]

Keep current date and time on posts

Adityavm — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:15:46 GMT

Adityavm:

Blogger Stickies

Adityavm — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:15:35 GMT

Adityavm:

Request Hacks

Adityavm — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:08:40 GMT

Adityavm: /* Archives: drop-down menu with titles */

User:Adityavm

Adityavm — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:07:29 GMT

Adityavm:

I am Aditya, owner of [http://www.aditya-mukherjee.com The Last Word (beta)]

Request Hacks

Adityavm — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:04:52 GMT

Adityavm: /* Specify the Number of Labels Displayed */

Blogger Stickies

Adityavm — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:00:58 GMT

Adityavm:

Keep current date and time on posts

Adityavm — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:57:54 GMT

Adityavm: