Blogger officially provides post thumbnails and snippets for posts. You do not have to use any fancy javascript to extract the first image of a post and the first few lines of a post to use as thumbnail and snippet respectively. You can use simple Blogger tags in the code of your template to use Blogger’s auto generated post thumbnail….
Featured posts are a great way to get the attention of visitors to a few specific posts on your blog. You will get to highlight some of the most interesting posts. This way, those posts will get more exposure. That means more views for those posts. Making your posts featured, means that you are telling your visitors, hey look at…
Today, I am going to show how to use a custom domain name for the domain registrar Name.com. This is a great registrar with some competitive pricing for getting .com and several other domain names. This is the place where I mostly go, to buy domain names for blogging and other websites. When you want to use a custom domain…
When you are blogging with Blogger, you might want to expand the functionality of your blog. Besides displaying the latest posts on your blog home page, you might want to add more to it. Your blogger template will normally come with a sidebar. There might be one sidebar in the right if not left of your blog template. Some Blogspot…
These days, after making a post on your blog, you might want to share it on various social media websites. There are tons of those out there but if you have been paying attention, then you already know that Twitter is one of the most popular one. Twitter easily allows you few characters of text along with a link to…
There are different ways that you can monetize your blog or website. Your online content can be a source of income to you if you do it just right. There are various options like advertisements and affiliate links/products that you can sell in order to earn some money. But doing it is not that simple or tough, for that matter….
Facebook commenting system is one of the trending commenting system that we see in websites these days. With likes and automatic top comments sorting option, it is a great commenting system even for blogs. The default blogger commenting system is good enough but it could use some changes. The commenting system is great because most of the people who are…
When you upload your image to Blogger/Blogspot or any other Google service, your photos are automatically enhanced. This feature is called “Auto Enhance”. While the enhancements usually make your photos look good, sometimes you get undesired enhancements. Such enhancements can sometimes make unnecessary changes to the photos. This happens usually when you upload an image for your blog and the…
If you have decided to move your blog from WordPress to Blogger/Blogspot, then you will have to export your posts from WordPress, convert them to Blogger xml format and then import it. This is not a one step simple task which can be easily done with plug-ins and add-ons. But it is also not that complicated as you can easily…
Blogger/Blogspot is a free blog hosting platform provided by Google. It is an amazingly fast, blog hosting service that is great for people who want to start a blog for free. Originally developed by Pyra Labs, this service was acquired by Google way back in 2003. Since then, this blogging platform has seen a tremendous growth. Always Free When you…