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Blogger Limits: Label Field Length

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As I wrote so long ago, Labels are probably the most significant feature of (New aka Beta) Blogger.

But everything good has its limits. If you use Labels enthusiastically, as I have, you will discover them (they will find you) periodically.


You have too many labels, or the total length of your labels is too great.


You are limited to a total of 200 characters, in the Labels string, for any post. I believe that this includes all commas and spaces between labels.

Look at my example.
Labels for this post:
Label1, Label2, Label3, Label4, Label5, Label6, Label7, Label8, Label9, Label10, Label11, Label12, Label13, Label14, Label15, Label16, Label17, Label18, Label19, Label20, Label21, Label22, Label23, Label24, Label25, Label26, Label27, Label28, Label29, Label30, Label31, Label32, Label33, Label34, Label35, Label36, Label37, Label38, Label39, Label40, Label41, Label42, Label43, Label44, Label45, Label46, Label47, Label48, Label49, Label50, Label51, Label52, Label53, Label54, Label55, Label56, Label57, Label58, Label59


Like limiting the size of your main page, you really have to exercise some judgement about labels. A blog of any appreciable size, with 200 characters of labels in some posts, would have a rather large label list. The above example, with 59 labels, is waaay to many. Think of your readers, please.

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Mike S said…
I tried using c++ or C++, tried all of the character encodings I could find, tried escaping the plus signs... no joy. Ideas?
17/10/15 19:17
Nitecruzr said…
Hi Mike,

Thanks for the question.

The "+" sign, in a label, simply won't work. Blogger uses the "+" sign as a logic operator, in Boolean label searches.

I have numerous labels used to index topics about "Google+". Do any of the labels work? Nope.

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2015/04/label-searches-using-combinations-of.html
18/10/15 19:39
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