Improving The Profile Gadget, And Similar Accessories

Many bloggers want something better than the standard Blogger provided gadgets, like "Profile" / "About Us", on their blogs. For some, even a custom HTML / Rich Text gadget still doesn't provide enough choices.

Rich text is too confusing.
The HTML Gadget toolbar lacks features.
There's no way to upload a picture.

If you want something more interesting than straight HTML / JavaScript / Rich Text for your Profile gadget, use Post Editor to compose the content.

Make a new post.
Compose the post, in Compose mode. Preview and make sure that you like what you have.
When you have what you like for your new gadget, switch to "Edit HTML" mode.
Copy the HTML content.
Make a new HTML / JavaScript gadget.
Paste the HTML from your new post, into the HTML gadget.
Save your new gadget.
Position your new gadget.

If you combine photos and text, know how to include both smoothly.

Once installed, if you feel the need to tweak the new gadget, you will have to know HTML / JavaScript / Rich Text (and note the oddities of the Html / Rich Text personality). Use the post editor for as much composition as possible, before creating the new gadget.

You can, as noted separately, conditionally display your HTML / JavaScript gadget, to make it appear as part of a given specific page or URL in the blog.

Since your improved gadget is being composed in Pages / Post Editor, you can, alternately, simply publish a Page or Post containing the gadget - instead of copying the code to an HTML / JavaScript gadget. This blog uses a custom Followers display, published as a static page.

Embedded Comments And Main Page View

The option to display comments, embedded below the post, was made a blog option relatively recently. This was a long requested feature - and many bloggers added it to their blogs, as soon as the option was presented to us. Some blog owners like this feature so much, that they request it to be visible when the blog is opened, in main page view. I would like all comments, and the comment form, to be shown underneath the relevant post, automatically, for everyone to read without clicking on the number of comments link. And this is not how embedded comments work.

What's The URL Of My Blog?

We see the plea for help, periodically I need the URL of my blog, so I can give it to my friends. Help! Who's buried in Grant's Tomb, after all? No Chuck, be polite. OK, OK. The title of this blog is "The Real Blogger Status", and the title of this post is "What's The URL Of My Blog?".

With Following, Anonymous Followers Can't Be Blocked

As people become used to Blogger Following as just another tool to connect people, they start to think about the implications . And we see questions like How do I block someone who's been following my blog secretly? I couldn't see her in my Followers list (hence I couldn't use the "Block this user" link), but I have looked at her profile and could see that she's Following my blog. Following, when you look at the bottom line, is no more than a feed subscription and an icon (possibly) displayed on your blog, and linking back to the profile of the Follower in question. If someone Follows your blog anonymously, all that they get is a subscription to the blog feed. If you publish a feed from your blog, and if the feed is open to anybody (which, right now, is the case ), then it's open to everybody. If someone wants to use Following to subscribe to the feed, you can't stop this. You can't block it before, or after, the fact. You can't Block w

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