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Its been more then 90 days since i deleted all of my posts.......can i get them back.....plz help......
URL http://10gramss.blogspot.com/
I would like to make a new (2010) blogger template stretchy, so that the posts fill up any wide browser windows. Any ideas on how to do that?
Help! I have read a TON of posts on the infamous "another blog is hosted at this address" problem and nothing seems to help me. I also filled out the magical Blogger form to no avail. I need to redirect a blog I set up on a now-closed Blogger account to my new Blogger account. What can I do? domain is www.perezarndt.com
Kim
Whenever I post a question I am hoping you will see it, because I know I will get a decent answer then.
I have a question though that I have googled until exhaustion and posted on the forums' but no interest yet.
Do you know if there is a "what would Seth Godin do plugin" for blogger.
In effect it means that you can have a welcome message based on the cookies of your visitor. Any new visitor would for ex. see a message (welcome, look around, subscribe) while repeat visitors would not be bothered with this or would get their own message.
Oh and now that I am talking to you anyway :-) Any idea what the best blogger plugin is for comment moderation. I mean moderation in the sense that you can respond to a commenter in the comments directly under that comment?
Thanks for listening and again thanks for all your help!
Thank you.
my blog acct is WaTAHOLICS http://wataholics.blogspot.com/ ..
I recently moved from blogger to wordpress and lost about 200 feedburner subscribers in the process. Is there any way to reclaim them?
What exactly happens when you use "New Post"?
omg! thank goodness!! i guess the problem was that my default setting was on the "Updated Editor" :)))
The old editor works perfectly fine..oh thank goodness!!! thank you thank you for your time..^^ kekekekeke~
Thanks for helping ppl restore blogs that have suddenly gone missing! Can you please provide any updates on the status? how long will it take? Can Google maintain a list of sites and give nos, so ppl know what time frame to expect??
Any help in getting my blogs restored would be appreciated, as a lot of readers/advertisers count on it.
Mansi
http://funandfoodcafe.com
http://funnfud.blogspot.com
This time I figured out something on my own. I don't know if you have this one on your site but I just "discovered" it.
The new Template Designer is great. You can get into lots of detail tweaking the layout of the blog. In doing so I find I wanted to customize it more than just the options availabe through the designer. For example, I wanted to tweak the footer text but there was no option for it through the designer. Instead of changing the code of one item or adding additional css, I found I could add the customization item to the designer by adding a variable definition.
If you look at the template code through "edit html" you can see the variable definitions groups at the beginning of the contents. I didn't have a variable for footer font so I added one (using other variables as example code, open and close symbols removed)
Variable name="footer.text.font" description="Text Font" type="font" default="bold normal 13px Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" value="normal bold 11px 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif"
And PRESTO! the option is now available in the template designer through the advanced settings! Now I don't have to tweak the individual code nor add additional css, I just have to add the variable code for a permanent option in the designer!
I'm submitting this to your blog because I think it may be useful to other readers of your blog.
I want to add a navigation bar tomy blogger account and cannot find it anywhere, or I am calling it the wrong name.
The bar you have on the top of your blog where it says "home, contact" etc. How do I find the info on how to add that into my blogger account?
In regards to forgetting account email and password can I just request to remove the entire account as a whole with all the blogs etc. I really don't know the password nor the email. I have had millions of different usernames and password that I can't seem to remember this one.
How do I do that?
If it was possible to have any Blogger account and blogs removed, simply upon request - as you are asking - then any Blogger account and blogs would be vulnerable to malicious removal by third parties.
I hope that you can understand the need for Blogger to verify rightful ownership, before removing accounts and blogs.
Regardless, that email I use to use is no longer active.
What should I do? I just want to cancel my account.
Thanks!
You need to start a new discussion in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, so your issue can be escalated to Blogger Support.
I found you on a blogging question and was curious if you'd be able to help me.
I posted up a blog today at around 11 AM ET. It shows on my actual blog page, but is not showing up in dashboard under my reading list (I follow myself to ensure that my blogs post correctly)
I am not hiding any blogs or clicking that "hide" button so I am unsure of what to do. Also, I do not have a link in the blank URL box in the Site Feed tab.
So I am worried that no one is able to see my blog posts because I cannot see my newest post in my reading list. I only see my last post, which was posted 2 days ago
Let me know!
Thanks!
This is an excellent question for asking in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken. Did you start there?
I believe this might be an issue with the html in my blog but I haven't been able to find a fix except to put wording in between the paragraphs and change it to the background color, but I haven't found a way to correct my past posts.
Under the formatting tab I have "convert line breaks " set to "yes" and I have also tried entering the
tag.
Have you heard of this issue before and if so, do you know how to fix this issue?
Thanks,
Vanessa
www.vanessasvalues.blogspot.com
vanessasvalues {at} hotmail {dot} com
It sounds like you reverted to a classic template - in which case, you should be able to un revert the template.
> can help me out. I had a blog at blogger Meandmommytv then I bought the
> domain .com, so now it is www.meandmommytv.com, but nothing is showing up.
> I bought it last Saturday and I am not sure if I am supposed to be doing
> something or if it just does it's own thing? Any help would be great..
> Please email me Gidget4LB(at)aol.com
You published to "www.MeAndMommyTV.com". Using upper case letters in the URL is a known problem, with custom domains.
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2009/02/custom-domains-and-case-significance-in.html
Publish the blog back to BlogSpot, then re publish it to
"www.meandmommytv.com" <-- NOTE all lower case letters!
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2010/04/republishing-custom-domain-blog.html
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2007/11/custom-domain-publishing-and-404-error.html
You can still advertise the blog as "www.MeAndMommyTV.com", if you wish. Just publish as "www.meandmommytv.com", first.
you have a few different posts about transferring my blog from my old gmail address to my new one. reading through them, i am a bit confused and am wondering, is the following one the most recent?
my blog is on my old gmail address and i don't use that one at all, except to log in to blogger. i am happy to delete it after transferring, but need some advice...
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2007/06/how-to-transfer-blog-from-one-account.html
thanks,
zahra
I suspect that with your question, you'll be better off asking it in Blogger Help Forum: How Do I?, where we can explore what your problem is.
What you're looking at, "multiple posts on different pages, with different backgrounds on each page" are a collection of blogs - some by me, others by friends. Each blog has different backgrounds and styles.
I provide the connections to the different blogs using the menu bar, which is a linklist that replaces the default Pages gadget.
I'm a major amateur and am having some troubles.
I purchased my domain through wordpress but was hating their blogging services. So, I'd like to publish my Blogger blog on my wordpress-hosted domain.
I need to enter information for nameservers to do this. Right now it says NS1.WORDPRESS.COM and NS2.WORDPRESS.COM.
Any advice on what to type in there to get my Blogger to point to my domain?
I think you need to post a question in Blogger Help Forum: How Do I?, so we can explore the possibilities.
could you help me in this? I made a blog, make posts but only 2 per page is shown.
http://backgammonbudapest.blogspot.com/
I thought it is because the auto-pagination, but another page like mine doesn't have this problem:
http://backgammon-dubrovnik.blogspot.com/
I set the number of posts shown at the options but it is useless.
What could be wrong?
thank you in advance
Zoli
This is an issue that we need to explore in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, where your problem can be diagnosed.
My domain is www.watch-dragonball-episodes.com. when i use this domain to publish
I get the error "another blog is already hosted at this domain". I bought it from godaddy. initially it worked but after a while godaddy blocked my account to verify it and temporarily removed the domain. i called them up, got it verified and got the domain back but now upon adding that domain it shows "another blog is already hosted at this domain" I cant get it working.
And right at the time when my domain was temporarily removed by godaddy blogger was undergoing maintenance so could this be a reason for the problem..
tell me what i can do to get my domain working.
im frustrated :(
We need to diagnose your problem, in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken.
I am very dissatisfied with the problem I'm facing. I've searched all the Internet from head to toe for solution but cant find any. If you can help me with this I will be very grateful for that
My custom domain url for which blogger is rejecting is www.watch-dragonball-episodes.com
My problem is that im getting "another blog is already hosted on this domain". :(
I'm even ready to pay a little amount to you as a gift if you can help me solve the problem.
PLEASE!!
As of May 15, blog still missing ("The requested URL / was not found on this server"). Any ideas as to when blogger will recover blogs, or if something is broken and I need to start over somehow?
By the way, after reading your posts, I set up an additional CNAME at Dreamhost, so I have one for www.blog.mywebsite.com and one for blog.mywebsite.com. From wht you say in your instructions, I am pretty sure I don't need to change "A" names there. Right?
Thanks
cyndi
The error message "another blog is already hosted on this domain" is well known, but can have any of several causes. You need to start a discussion in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, so we can work on this together.
Geographical Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
My Frustration Level 1-10: 10
Currently, when I click view blog, it returns the following message: 404 NOT FOUND The requested URL / was not found on this server.
I created a blog using Blogger (www.eonsextalk.blogspot.com) and purchased a GoDaddy domain (www.eonsextalk.com).
I initially walked through GoDaddy’s version of instructions with no luck. I phoned customer service 3 times each call had a 48-72 hour turnaround time. I came upon the site “The Real Blogger Status”. I then called GoDaddy Customer Service and we did this together: http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2011/01/correcting-godaddy-custom-domain-setup.html
I did this: http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2010/03/diagnosing-problems-with-custom-domains.html
I tried this: http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2010/04/republishing-custom-domain-blog.html
And got a message like this: “Conflicting edits There was more than one attempt to edit this resource at the same time. This may have been because you double clicked on a link or a button or because someone else is also editing this blog or post…” I don’t know what to do…Please help
here is the code for the networked blog widget:
it doesn't allow me to paste the code, I get "Your HTML cannot be accepted: PHP, ASP, and other server-side scripting is not allowed." is there another way to send you the code? thanks Marjaan
If you replace the default Pages gadget with a linklist, you can link to anything you like, in the linklist entries. Pages, posts, label searches, other blogs - all are possible linklist entries. That's what I did, with my menu bar.
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2010/04/static-pages-and-custom-pages-index.html
jana
anyhow, I appreciate your time and what you can do to help me. Have a fantastic holiday!!!
Laura
I have spoken to GoDaddy, and they tell me I need Blogger to sort it as there is nothing GoDaddy can do. I really hope you can help
We need to explore this in detail, when you start a discussion in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken.
My question is about hosting the Blog on a custom Domain.
The problem with Blogger is, it requires me to set the ANAME with 4 different IPs.
However, the provider of my Domain will only let me change ONE IP for the A-Record.
Will it be sufficient to choose one?
Thanks for the help, could not find answers elswhere :(
Your domain will work, with only one "A" record, until the Google server targeted by the one "A" record is busy or offline.
Use another provider of your domain.
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2009/09/your-blog-custom-domains-and-quadruplet.html
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2007/10/dns-host-is-crucial-for-custom-domain.html
Blog is precisesharpening.blogspot.com
I can be reached at ksskss@earthlink.net . This is FAR more helpful than my gmail account.
Yes I shouldn't post emails openly but I'm getting a bit desperate to get this fixed.
Thanks in advance. If this can be escalated I would greatly appreciate it.
---
Ken
Spam review requests absolutely must be addressed in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken.
I have later realized that blogger has allowed someone else to claim the genealogybuzz.blogspot.com domain (effectively stealing my traffic).
Have you heard of this happening before? It hasn't happened with any of my other blogs which are all set up the same way.
There is no way that you should be able to "Redirect genealogybuzz.blogspot.com to genealogybuzz.com". That is not a valid selection, for the Blogger redirection option.
I'm going to strongly suggest that you post to Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, so we can discuss this in detail.
Thanks again!!
That's the latest attack by the referer spammers.
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2011/10/nitecruzrnet-hits-big-time.html
I just set up a Blog then I forwared my web address through go daddy to the blog address.
But I find I keep getting this message every time I want to view it..other have to. This is of course a huge problem for me..since this is business blog.
This is what I get..if I click on "Open this content in a new window" it will open the blog. Please advise..much thanks
This content cannot be displayed in a frame
To help protect the security of information you enter into this website, the publisher of this content does not allow it to be displayed in a frame.
What you can try:
Open this content in a new window
Thank you :)
I really would like to address this with you - in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, where we can work on this problem properly.
You are discussing a known problem - which was solved then later returned.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=4a5de96f0dfced23&hl=en
Also, I've looked through the forum for any kind of news about introducing gadgets but don't really see any recent replies from Google about it happening. Do you have any idea if and when they are planning to do so?
Last question - right now, is there any way I can get an 'about the author' link on my blog?
Thanks so much for your time.
3 blog posts / day should not be in itself, spam. Nor should sharing them on FaceBook, Digg, or Twitter.
But the more posts and shares you do / day, the more visible the blog may be to the spam classifier. And if there are other features of the blog that might be marginally spammy, the blog could still be classified.
It's possible that the live human people who review the blog will see it as non spam (but the blog will be down while the review is pending) - or the humans might decide that it's spam. Fuzzy spam classification can be like that.
You place yer bets, and the croupier spins the wheel. Red, or Black?
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2012/01/many-faces-of-spam-classification-and.html
Isn't there an online appeal to write to google to have blog researched and reinstated? Please help.
Thanks,
The only thing that you need to "make public" is the Blog URL. Everything else is important only when connected to the blog - so concentrate on getting the blog publicly known, and on making the blog valuable. Everything else will follow.
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2007/09/whats-url-of-my-blog.html
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2006/07/publicising-your-blog.html
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2009/05/value-of-your-blog-is-based-upon.html
Kindly help me to sort out the issue regarding my domain. I already consulted netfirms regarding this issue and according to them i need to contact blogger. I am having a hard time parking the blogger to my custom domain. As per netfirms, it is already fixed on their side because when i typed in the URL, i am already routed to .com site. hence, it wasn't showing the blogger site.
domain: wherethefcukiam.com
blogger's url: wherethefcukiam.blogspot.com
if you need further details just send me out an email. Thank you very much.
Jim
I will try to keep an open mind, but if I had a dollar for every time I have answered "My registrar told me that they have this setup properly, and Blogger has a problem ...", I could retire with ease and live in Paradise.
Please post this query in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, so we can diagnose this properly.
I became convinced that the Blogger platform could be a great alternative to more traditional websites, especially for those more or less news-driven anyway. Content management is much better ("normal people" are not intimidated) and some reasonably easy customization makes a site look less like a blog.
However, moving the domain from the existing hosting company may be easy but is fraught with anxiety. Blogger help does not seem to provide help and you have some wonderful articles but I'm still unsure.
A call to GoDaddy was the most helpful to get started ... but we will see how it works out in a few days when the domain actually transfers and I get it pointed to the blog. I'm still completely unsure whether I need to do something to get the Google Apps that would normally be associated with a new domain set up through Google.
Sorry about the long story, but I'm writing to suggest a consolidated step-by-step article on how to get a website domain moved to a Blogger blog and get the result the same as a new one set up through Google.
Thanks again for all your help!
Tom
I had a question though... how do you keep the welcome post always the first post on your homepage? Pretty cool feature.
Blogger 'reactions' won't show... it says it's enabled, but it doesn't work. Here's the url http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC0T-rRx1So&feature=related
Any ideas? Thanks!
Reactions won't work, don't accept that last one, I posted another url
The Welcome post in this blog is an HTML gadget, positioned just above the "Blog Posts" gadget, with the XML tweaked to display only when the Home page is displayed. It's essentially a static Home page, with posts displayed ("Show" set to "12 posts").
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2011/11/blogger-magic-static-home-page.html
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2010/10/conditionally-displaying-template.html
but nothing has been done about it. maybe YOU know why?? why isn't Blogger doing anything about this? thanks. it's pretty frustrating!
I have a domain name registered with IPage. I have a longstanding blog on Blogspot. I do not want to use Weebly or Wordpress as my domain platform. I just want to use my domain name so that if someone enters my domain name they are directed to my blogspot blog. I've tried following the simple directions on blogger support and have contacted Ipage and am simply lost in ignorance. It's stressing me out!
Is there anyone that you could recommend that I could pay to just set my domain name pointer the right way without the need for me to lose all of hair (pulling it out) in the process?
Thanks !! very much.
Unless I'm mistaken, iPage doesn't provide DNS control to their customers - so you probably won't be able to publish a Blogger blog there. That said, there may be some alternative solutions that we can suggest, if you post in Blogger Help Forum: How Do I?, where we can discuss this in detail.
-Tia
My blog is: http://www.professorwatermelon.blogspot.com/
The problem is:
I have added the pages widget to my blog, however it only allows me to show three pages at a time. I have chosen to display pages as top tabs and it only shows three.
When I display in the sidebar I don't have this issue.
You posted a response to my question on Blogger Help recently - thanks for that:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/blogger/something-is-broken/gzYtj7an7Vc
I'm trying to find an auto post summarisation procedure which keeps the spaces between paragraphs and which respects the divs I put my images in.
The ones I have found take the caption I attach to my images and put it in with the main text.
Any ideas?
Cheers!
The best that I can recommend is that you stick with "Jump Break" and don't involve meta code ("<div>" etc) in the posts. Only "Jump Break" works well with auto pagination - and most auto summarisation techniques work best when truncating text - not meta code. I am doubtful that you will find a solution written for you, with exactly those requirements.
Thanks for your help! Heather
In the false blog she is accused of participating in illegal activities. Again, this blog is created by someone else and is written using her image, her name and her business name.
She has contacted Blogger, followed the rules to get it taken down. NO response.
Any ideas? This is a cruel person doing this to a married Mom with a little girl. Horrible.
Thanks, Chuck
The term "fake" or "false" blog has always intrigued me. Just because a blog may bother or offend you, this does not make it a fake blog. All blogs are real - regardless of your opinion.
You need to understand the differences between Defamation (ridicule, slander, trash talk) and Impersonation (identity theft). The first is a civil offense - and must be adjudicated in a civil court - not by Blogger / Google. Only the second is a TOS offense, and can be reported to Blogger / Google for disposition.
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2010/02/interpersonal-conflict-defamation-vs.html
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2009/03/sometimes-you-may-need-lawyer.html
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2012/08/reporting-illegal-activity-in-blogger.html
I got a custom domain from the blogger(the only company that offered was Enom). Everything is registered and running according to the Enom tech guy. But on my blog it does not redirect to my domain. How do I fix this problem?
Thanks
I have an upcoming event on my blog and I'm concerned about bandwidth. I've read your articles on restrictions and usage and done some homework and I *think* there should be nothing hampering my visitor's usage during my event, but I wanted to hear it from someone who knows Blogger way better than I do.
Basically, for three days I could have 1000+ visitors to my blog who will be watching videos (embedded using YouTube iframes) and chatting (embedded CoverItLive iframes). I believe that using these services in iframes will mean that they are taking the brunt of any badnwidth usage, but I have a friend who did something like this and her blog/site crashed. I don't want to crash!
Can either put my mind at ease or tell me how I can avoid my site crashing during this event?
Thanks so much Chuck! Here's my email, just in case ali (at) alicross (dot) com. :)
I was having an issue of getting the domain I bought through google linked to my blog. When they tell you it is quick and easy...they lie! Thanks for getting me through the process! I'm your newest follower. Today's post I'm giving you a shout out!
xoxo
Thank you for your exceptional support blog.
Although I am fairly ignorant about the technical aspects of blogging, I do have 52 *Free* children's photo-stories that are lovingly crafted and are intended to provide values based education to youngsters.
My problem, Chuck, is that I do not know how-to expand my outreach for this Quality blog. I feel like the bliblcal injunction against hiding your lantern under a bushel basket! LOTS of really hard– quality work... but I wish to learn how to expand our audience! http://www.ryanlifeofryan.com
Perhaps someone among your vast contacts would be willing to share some outreach strategies for this wholesome and whimsical early-childhood education site?!
I'm periodically working on the "publicity" issue, as the periodic changes by Blogger and Google make for exciting updates.
You can start with my main post, Publicising Your Blog - as well as my Forum FAQ: How Do I Get Readers And Traffic?.
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2006/07/publicising-your-blog.html
http://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!category-topic/blogger/l02w2YK_0Gw[1-25-true]
Thanks!
Karen
www.lillyslace.blogspot.com
Thanks again!!
There are several possible reasons for blogs not updating in blogrolls - and they really should be diagnosed, individually.
I'm going to suggest here, that you start a new topic, in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, and provide necessary details such as the URL of the blog.
http://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!category-topic/blogger/3-i6pKZa0n0[1-25-true]
Please instruct your friend to first Clear the Post Feed Redirect setting! That's the immediate problem.
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2013/03/clear-or-set-post-feed-redirect.html
Great Blog. You are a real computer Guru. I am exactly the opposite.
Can you help me please. Webmaster says I have 267 blocked URLs. I don't even have a fraction of that many posts. The robots.txt is reading OK. Thank you.
D
www.truthliesdeceptioncoverups.info
I am looking at your blog - and you're right, you don't have 267 posts.
But you do have about 40 posts - and somewhere between 5 and 10 label references / post. 40 x 7 == 280
Since label references are the main cause of the "blocked URL" in the WMT reports, that's about right (give or take a few).
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2008/07/google-webmaster-tools-and-label.html
I posted this in the Blogger forum and received no answer. Could you give it a shot for me? Thanks, Bill
Sometime in the distant past I remember reading something to the effect that selling from a Blogger blog was against Blogger's rules( something like it was a violation of TOS). Is that still the case or has that changed? For example I'm a photographer who sells my fine art photos through sites such as Cafepress, Zazzle, and Fine Art America. I'm thinking about turning my Blogger blog with its custom domain into a photo blog with perhaps short little articles about the photos including where they were taken and/or how they were taken. Is it ok to either link the photo directly to products that show that photo in Cafepress or Fine Art America or can I add an HTML widget that is linked to my stores at Cafepress or Fine Art America? Fine Art America even has a shopping cart widget( you can see it here: http://fineartamerica.com/announcements.html). Can I put that on my Blogger blog or will Blogger shut me down? Or could I have something as simple as a sidebar photo that's linked to my stores? I see lots of Blogger blogs that have these sorts of links or widgets but I am wanting to make sure that I stay clear of anything that violates Blogger rules.
Selling products (from a Blogger blog) is perfectly legal - as long as the product or service is legal.
You cannot sell access to Blogger services - maybe that's what you read?
Thousands of Blogger blogs, though, are used by small businesses. And there's no native "checkout" / "marketplace" Blogger add-on - but you can easily setup any agreeable small business market third party service, then link your blog and the market service that you setup.
Just be careful, and don't mix ads hosted on your blog with programs that let you buy and sell "traffic" (aka "affiliate marketing").
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2007/06/adding-your-blogger-blog-to-your-non.html
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2011/04/is-blog-that-uses-affiliate-networking.html
Thanks for all you do.
I have a question. Moving a Blogger blog from one custom domain to another, is it better to:
1. Revert to blogspot.com URL, then publish to new custom domain, OR
2. Export XML file from old custom domain blog, import it to new one.
At this time, I don't have very many readers or subscribers, so that part is not a big concern. Thanks!
If you have a working blog (comments, posts, template), keep the blog - and change the URL.
Please.