Hello Readers,There is some really good stuff happening in the Blogger hacking world. This comes after the recent announcement on Blogger buzz regarding Blogger (or I can say all of Google) moving to JSON (JavaScript Object Notification) data format for feeds.The hacks I am referring to are:1. Hoctro's Recent Comments/Posts widget.2. Ramani's Customizable Recent Comments Widget.3. Hans's Customizable Recent Comments Widget with date and post title (offered in ...
Nov 24, 2006View Comments
JSON, customizable widgets and other applications
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Nov 13, 2006View Comments
Feed, Social Bookmark Drop-down and a Recent referrers hack
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hello Readers,In this post, I have presented the following add-on for Blogger-Beta:1. Subscribe drop-down (on-hover) for presenting feed subscription options.2. Social Bookmark drop-down for Blogger-beta post footers.3. Extreme Socializer – A Social Bookmarking alternative.4. Recent Referrers hack by web-messenger.1. Feed Subscribe Drop-down (on-hover)You might have noticed the Javascript-based subscribe drop-down (activates on mouse hover) in my blog’s widebar. I had got this one from here. Just go to ...
Oct 12, 2006View Comments
Google blog ping service in FeedBurner
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hello Friends,While browsing though A consuming Experince, I came across this post regarding Google Blog ping service being added to FeedBurner's PingShot utility.You might want to add this option to your FeedBurner feeds to increase the chances of appearing prominently in Google search.
Oct 7, 2006View Comments
Comment Feed for individual posts (updated)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)I am not sure if this is a new feature or an old one that I missed. I was moderating comments on one of my recent posts when I came across this feed link under the post. It is a feed to the comments that appear only on that individual post (not the entire blog).To view this feed link just click on your post’s title (for example ...
Sep 22, 2006View Comments
Rake in feeds with blogger beta and OPML (updated)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)I am not sure about classic blogger, but I can definitely tell about blogger beta, that it has a number of options to choose from as far as feeds are concerned. If you have the right idea, you can use all of these feeds to offer your readers the flexibility to choose what they wish to read and how.Full posts feed of your blog:http://[your blog].blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full (updated as ...
Sep 20, 2006View Comments
Label feeds and peek-a-boo for sidebar (blogger beta)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hello all,I had read about label feeds somewhere a while ago but ignored the idea thinking that I won't need label feeds. Little did I realize that label feeds is a very good feature for a blog like mine where I got multiple categories that are fundamentally different.So finally I implemented label feeds after reading about it from Phydeaux3's blog. Now, readers who are not interested in the ...
Sep 18, 2006View Comments
Open feed’s links in new window
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Based on the hack/mod I suggested in my article on link-lists in blogger beta, I have extended the same idea to feed displays that one may have in their blog.Feeds are a powerful and popular means of staying updated and they are also powerful distracters on a blog. If you have feeds to other blogs or news sites (like I have), it would be a good idea to ...
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