The Real Blogger Status

When your blog gets larger, you'll want your readers to be able to find the content easier - sometimes using more detail than can be found in the Archives index. You can generally use Labels for a more comprehensive index of the blog contents - but both labels, and titles, index the posts based on your vision of the blog. What if you want your readers to view your blog, on their terms? This is where the Navbar, with its search box, becomes useful.

I speak and write English (Americanised English, for you Brits). Until this weekend, my blogs were all published in English, and in English only. Thanks to the Kaspersky fiasco of Friday (Kaspersky is a Russian product), however, I was motivated to correct that shortcoming. This was, surprisingly, an easier task than I had anticipated. If you will examine the sidebar of my recipe blog , you will observe my multi-lingual translator, courtesy of Google Translator.

This lets you (any one of your readers) decide how you (he / she) wants to list the Topics (aka Labels) , in my (your) blog. You (your readers) select the Style that pleases you, not the blog owner (you). So, how does it work? Hide Select Hide Style to hide everything except the MultiStyle Labels Menu Bar. Hide Style is the default in this blog; other blogs may vary. List Select List Style for the familiar long list, alphabetised, with post counts. Menu Select Menu Style for a pop up list, alphabetised, with post counts. Zoom Select Zoom Style for a long list, alphabetised, using larger fonts to identify topics with higher post counts. Original code by Ramani of HackOSphere , improved by Chuck of RBS . (Question): This rocks! So, Chuck, how do I get this into my blog? For the answer, see Adding CumulusTopics Code Into Your Blog . >> Top