Blogger Beta Hack

When Google introduced new version of Blogger software in Beta a few months ago, Blogger (blogspot) fans around the world were excited. Not only has this beta version got a category, called ‘label’, but it’s also running fast and, well, furious.

Ong Hock Chuan once asked me whether I intended to migrate to wordpress.com which I said no. At least not this blog as I want this site lives as long as Blogger alive. On top of it all, Blogger is free and you’re in full control of it. Two things that don’t come together very often.

I use worrdpess.org software for my top domain (commercial) blogs as it’s has certain advantages from SEO perspective. For personal purposes like this one, however, I prefer to use free Blogger / Blogspot service for simple reasons: it makes you feel free to write as much as you want without feeling afraid of the expiration date, etc.

Speaking of Blogger BETA, since it uses quite different codes than the previous old one, many blogger hacks are not workable including post-summary/expandable post more known as “read more”, recent comments on the sidebar, etc.

So, if you’re using Blogger BETA and want to make a hack of it, the following blogs might be useful for starters:

1. Ramani at Hackosphere.

Learn from to make “read more” from this blog and a lot more interesting hacks such as Converting to 3-column template, Peekaboo posts with summary in main page, Peekaboo posts in label/archive pages, Multi-style Labels widget, Author comment highlighting and notification, Latest Posts display in sidebar, Random message widget.

2. What’s else but to visit the “central command” of Blogger at Blogger Buzz to find more new features and more hacks from the blogosphere.

3. For Malay/Indonesian speaking bloggers who are more comfortable to read the tutorial on this matter in Bahasa Indonesia, you can visit here.

Hopefully, this will satisfy those who ask me on this matter.

This entry was posted on September 8, 2007 at September 8, 2007 and is filed under Blogger Indonesia. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.