Official Blogger Blog: September 2009

The latest tips and news from the Blogger team

Show your face!

September 17, 2009

Lu Chencomments featureBlogger Birthday feature series

SettingsCommentsThis is one of many features announced as part of Blogger's 10th birthday. Happy Birthday!

Turn Your Blog into a Book with Blog2Print

September 15, 2009

SharedBook

partnered with Bloggerenter your blog URLThis is one of many features announced as part of Blogger's 10th birthday. Happy Birthday!

Widgetbox: Make a Widget From Your Blog

September 14, 2009

WidgetboxBlogger’s 10 birthdayturn your blog into a widget

Key Benefits?

The easiest way to build a widget from your blog

Colorful, interactive, and engaging

Easy to add to Blogger and sites across the web

As you update your blog, the widget automatically updates with the latest posts, headlines, and images

Helps you reach new readers and drive traffic back to your blog

How Do You Build Your Widget?Building a widget

Enter your blog feed

Design your widget’s look and feel

Publish the widget

Add it to your site and watch it spread across the web

Access statistics on unique views, widget installs, and other blogs and domains that have installed your widget

make it into a widgetThis is one of many features announced as part of Blogger's 10th birthday. Happy Birthday!

CustomizeLayoutAdd a Gadgethttp://www.google.com/ig/modules/calendar/socialevent/bloggerevent.xmlSaveFriendConnectThis is one of many features announced as part of Blogger's 10th birthday. Happy Birthday!

You Might As Well Jump!

September 09, 2009

It's time to announce another Blogger Birthday feature! Many users have been asking for an easy way to implement "Read more" links on their blog's index page. In fact, for years bloggers have been implementing "Read more" jump breaks themselves by manually editing their HTML --- a process that was complicated and error prone.

Today we are excited to announce our latest birthday present: Jump Breaks.

With Jump Breaks you can show just a snippet of your post on your blog's index page. Blogger will insert a "Read more" link to the full post page where your readers can keep reading.

new post editorBlogger in Draftby enabling it via the Settings tab

Edit HTML

Layout Edit Blog Posts

One more note, the Jump Break feature does not change how your post appears in your feed. You can configure post feed options by going to Settings | Basic | Site Feed, and editing Allow Blog Feeds.

Update: Users that have customized their Blog Posts widget or otherwise have highly customized templates: You may need to edit your HTML to enable Jump Breaks. First, back up your template, then follow the instructions at the bottom of this help article.

This is one of many features announced as part of Blogger's 10th birthday. Happy Birthday!

One-click Blogging with BlogThis! Chrome Extension

September 09, 2009

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Earn Charity Donations on Blogger with SocialVibe

September 02, 2009

SocialVibe

Step 1 - Add the Gadgetthis linkhttp://www.socialvibe.com/s/blogger/gadgetStep 2 - Configure GadgetSocialVibe.comFacebookThis is one of many features announced as part of Blogger's 10th birthday. Happy Birthday!