Comment Photos and Highlighting

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Revision as of 03:56, 8 November 2008

Platform

For use with Blogger blogs, new and classic both.

Author

Stephen Paul Weber PurpleMoggy

Homepage

Comment Photos and Highlighting Instructions for New Blogger

Skill Level

You must be comfortable with editing CSS and your Blogger template.

Description

The article presents a free third party service enabling inline comments in Blogger posts, with profile images. It uses JavaScript and an online service that parses Blogger profile pages for poster image URLs and more, where available, and shows the image next to each comment. As a bonus for JavaScript literate people, Stephen's service is very hackable and enables you to build a host of useful things based on the data available on Blogger profile pages, including (but not limited to) different post styling based on whether a commenter is a member of the blog or not.

Method

(See complete instructions at the homepage or PurpleMoggy page.)

1. Insert template code into the body element of your Blogger template.
2. Insert a JavaScript snippet in the head element of your Blogger template.
3. Re-publish your blog.

Sites Using This Hack

• Singpolyma - Technical Blog
• Ecmanaut (uses the service but with presentation code of his own)
• Sumpit - Adbrite Tutorial
• The Blue Speckled Diary

Edit this area and add your own link if you are using this hack.