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

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

Drop-down list for posts in alphabetical order for a specific label (or labels)

April 15, 2007.

I'm interested in a hack where I can add multiple drop-down lists (or menus) in a widget (or different widgets, doesn't matter) that will display only the post titles in alphabetical order for a label (or labels) that has been hard-coded/determined by me. Selecting the post title from the drop-down list will load that post.

The hack is similar to this: http://hoctro.blogspot.com/2006/12/killer-hack-contents-by-category.html but uses a drop-down list instead of a flat list.

My blog is at http://lotusnova.blogspot.com/

Thanks. -Amit

Separe posts by Authors (or Labels)

I am starting a blog with a friend and would like to separe the two authors into two different columns, that is, on the left column show the posts by a Author 1 and on the right by Author 2. If it helps, It could be a specific label on the left column and another on the right! I already have the CSS template for left / right columns, I just don't know what code loads posts that match this specific criteria..

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? --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 blog in question.

Any idea how I could do that?

Thanks, it's a great idea this wiki! 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 www.Shan.ca.tf

Blogsend: No Linkback to Main Blog

I have a 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 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 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 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: [1]

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 [2]

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 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:

Hakosphere

Dynamique Drive (Sudivided Comments Section example only)

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 Techno Focus.

Everybody is invinted to comment this particular hack at the end of this request or at Techno Focus.

If you need more information about this Inversed and Subdivided Comments Section Hack request, please feel at ease to ask me at Techno Focus.

Salutations! from Québec, Canada.

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, 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, Alain said...

Commenting is going to be Hoctro next set of hacks: Hoctro from 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, Alain said...

Neo-like Comments: Ramani from 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

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? --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 here? --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
Thom's Comment Feed using remote parser
Ramani's Archive Browser
Ramani's One-click Notification

Any takers?

-Greg.

Aren't we talking something like coComment or co.mments, etc? -- 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[3] 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[4] 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 blog in question.

thanks

Solution

at least a possible solution.... Check out 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 Michael and 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 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! - Singpolyma 09:39, 7 November 2006 (EST)

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