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Show off your favorite blogs with a Blog List
June 05, 2008
Today we’re releasing a new page element for Layouts blogs:
Blog List
. The Blog List improves on our Link List page element by using blogs’ RSS and Atom feeds to show update times, post titles, and snippets.
Use a Blog List to
put a blogroll in your sidebar
, or make a few to categorize the blogs you read. The Blog List works well for any page that has an RSS or Atom feed, so you can get creative: link to
news sites
,
podcasts
,
Twitter streams
,
search results
, or anything else with a feed.
Here’s a quick summary of the features that a Blog List gives you:
Link to blogs, web pages, and feeds from your blog’s sidebar, with an optional favicon
For pages with RSS and Atom feeds, Blog List can show last updated time, post title, and a snippet of the latest post
Sort links alphabetically or by last update time
Show all links, or hide some behind a “show all” link
Import subscriptions from Google Reader
Blog List links are visible to search engine crawlers, so your blog’s
PageRank
and reputation flow to those you link to
Want to see it in action? We made a help video to walk you through adding and configuring a Blog List:
Thanks go out to everyone who
chimed in
on the
Blogger in draft blog
while this feature was being developed. You helped us a lot!
Tip:
Want to show more posts from a single blog? Use the Feed page element to put any RSS or Atom feed in your blog’s sidebar.
Updates and Bug Fixes for June 5th
June 05, 2008
Today’s release brings a handful of tweaks and fixes, as well as the new Blog List page element. Here’s some of what we fixed:
If you delete a post or make a typo in a post URL, the resulting 404 page now says “page not found” instead of the incorrect “blog not found.”
<blockquote>
tags no longer break the line height of later paragraphs in the Minima, Scribe, Harbor, Dots, 867/565, Moto, and Thisaway templates.
If you’ve edited your CSS or blog widget template, you may not get this fix, or, worse, you’ll lose line spacing in your posts.
For a fix, see the
known issue on this bug
. (We apologize for this one-time disruption.)
OpenID logins for comments now work when the OpenID URL redirects to another page.
Layouts blogs will now display on Blog*Spot even when the template has invalid
data:
tags, rather than showing a bX code page.
Performance improvements across Blogger.com and Blog*Spot.
Enjoy! We’ll have a bit more to say about Blog List later today, as well as some new fixes and features on
Blogger in draft
.
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