Google+ Comments And Private Blogs

Recently, in Blogger Help Forum: How Do I?, we've seen signs that Blogger considers Google+ Comments and privately published blogs mutually exclusive options.

How do I enable Google+ Comments?

and, alternately

I am trying to change our blog to private - but no options come up under "Permissions" - "Blog Readers". There is no "Edit" link.

These blog owners are discovering that, though one of the earlier publicised features of Google+ was the ability to distribute a substitute private blog posts feed, a private blog comments feed won't be offered.

As we've discovered, and written about, various deficiencies and problems involving Google+ Comments, Blogger Engineering has been busily disabling some dashboard settings, to prevent use of incompatible blog features.

With Google+ comments enabled, you get a notice under Permissions.

Under Settings - Basic - Permissions, we see

Google+ Comments enabled. Learn more

In this case, "Blog Readers" shows as "Public", and there is no "Edit" link to designate readers.

With a private blog, you get a notice on the dashboard Google+ page.

Conversely, for a blog which uses Blogger Native Comments, and made Private, we look under the dashboard "Google+" page, and see the unpleasant advice.

Google+ Comments are unsupported on non-public blogs and blogs marked as containing adult content. Learn more

In this case, the option to "Use Google+ Comments on this blog" is grayed out, and the check box is inoperative.

We are advised to use Google+, to distribute private blog post content.

Long ago, Google+ was recommended as a way to distribute blog post updates, for private blogs - making up for Blogger's inability to provide newsfeeds for private blogs.

It appears that the benefit of Google+ only extends to posts, for private blogs. Private blog posts can be distributed using Google+ - but private blog comments will be limited to using Blogger Native Comments.

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2014/01/private-blogs-and-google-comments.html

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?".

Where's The Dashboard?

We see this confusion, a couple times a week, in Blogger Help Forum: How Do I? . Where is the dashboard? In the Classic Blogger GUI, the display which contained the "Blog List" (at the top), and the "Reading List" (at the bottom) was labeled "Dashboard". Many people also called the "Settings" / "Template" screens for the various blogs, linked from the Blog List, the dashboard. The New Blogger GUI has no page with the label - and no links "To The Dashboard". The Navbar (another unlabeled feature) has two links - "Design" and "New Post" - which lead to different dashboard sections, when you are appropriately logged in to Blogger . And, the "B" logo at the far left of the navbar will, similarly, take you to the Blog List / Reading List.

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