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It’s spring cleaning time for Blogger
May 15, 2018
To make room for some exciting updates coming soon to Blogger, we’re simplifying the platform to enhance the blogging experience for all of our users.
Changes to existing features in Blogger
(rolling out over the next few months)
:
Google+ Integrations:
Throughout the next few months, Blogger will transform Google+ widget integrations into HTML widgets to give you more flexibility in how you share and see your followers.
OpenID:
Blogger previously allowed users to comment on blogs using an existing third party OpenID identity provider and has also acted as an OpenID identity provider when interacting with other systems on the internet. Due to the low usage of this feature, Blogger will no longer support OpenID as a provider or for making comments, and all comments that previously used OpenID will be anonymized. New comments can be posted either from a Google account or labeled as “Anonymous” on blogs that allow it.
Improved Localization and Blogspot ccTLDS:
Your location determines your country services. Historically, these services have been labeled and accessed via country code top level domain names (ccTLD), such as blogspot.com.au for Australia. We’re updating the way we label country services on Blogger - now the choice of country service will no longer be indicated by domain. Instead, blogspot.com will serve you the country service that corresponds to your location, and all existing blogspot ccTLD domains will redirect to blogspot.com. This will help simplify URLs for international audiences.
Along with the above updates, the following features will soon be retired from Blogger
(over the next few months)
due to low usage and to allow the Blogger team to focus on developing new features:
Third Party Gadgets:
You will still be able to add custom HTML or Javascript via the “HTML/Javascript” gadget.
Next Blog:
This is the feature that allows you to visit another blog similar to the current one. Blog owners can still use the Blog List widget to share their favorite blogs directly!
Polls Widget:
Current Polls results will still be available in
Google Takeout
(more details below) until later in 2018.
Textcube:
www.textcube.com will be decommissioned. Existing Blogspot blogs imported from TextCube will continue to serve on their blogspot.com address, while files originally hosted in Textcube will be available via
Google Takeout
(more details below).
Aside from the above changes, we’re excited to highlight some new features we’ve been working on.
New features you may have noticed recently:
HTTPS for Custom Domains:
Internet security is very important to Blogger. Custom domains now support encrypted connections with HTTPS, making sure connections maintain integrity and the contents are confidential. For more information on HTTPS, check out the Blogger Help Center article
here
.
Multilogin:
Multiple accounts? No problem! Multilogin allows you to switch between your different Google accounts without signing out. For more information on multilogin, check out the Blogger Help Center article
here
.
Spanner:
We’ve been doing some serious tinkering under the hood of Blogger! We finished a multiple-year migration of all blogs to Spanner, a new storage system. For more information on Spanner, check out the Google Cloud Spanner site
here
.
New features coming soon
(over the next few months)
:
Video Management:
With our new management interface, you can easily download and remove videos you’ve uploaded.
Google Takeout:
Your blog - your data. With our upcoming updates to this tool, you’ll be able to access more information when you download your data from
Google Takeout
.
We know change isn’t always easy, but we thank you for your patience as we continue our commitment to helping you publish your passions into 2018 and beyond.
Stay tuned,
Kelly on behalf of your Blogger team
Share your unique style with new Blogger themes
March 20, 2017
If you’re one of the millions of people who uses Blogger to share your views on current affairs, teach the world how to make sushi, or just offer a peek into your day, then you know how important it is to be able to put your personal stamp on your blog. After all, your blog isn’t just a place you share, it’s a reflection of who you are and the impression you’d like to leave with your readers.
To make it easier for you to express your unique style, we’ve created a new set of blog themes for you to choose from. Each theme comes in a variety of colors, is fully customizable, and can be added to your blog with just a few clicks.
These themes aren’t only designed to look great, they’re designed to work great too. Each one has been built to automatically adjust to any screen and load quickly, so you can rest assured that your readers will be able to easily see your work whether they’re on a computer, phone or tablet.
Here’s a quick look at the new designs:
Contempo
As good for a photo as it is for a story, Contempo puts a fresh, modern spin on life’s many adventures.
(
view sample blog
)
Soho
Spare and simple, Soho is a gallery built to showcase your latest photos, designs or musings in their best light.
(
view sample blog
)
Emporio
From projects to objects, Emporio can take any array of posts and display them in a neat and tidy way.
(
view sample blog
)
Notable
Whether you’re feeling pithy or profuse, Notable is your notepad for scribbles, stories, and so much more.
(
view sample blog
)
To see all of the different theme variations, and to try on a new one for your blog,
visit your blog dashboard
and select the Theme tab.
We hope this latest update makes it even easier to publish the things you’re passionate about in a way that fits your style. Let us know what you think and stay tuned for more updates for Blogger.
Happy blogging!
Posted by Guy Ronen, Product Manager
A first few tweaks toward a better Blogger
November 22, 2016
From New York to Jakarta, Blogger is one of the most popular ways to publish the things you’re passionate about. Still, we’ve heard that there’s more we can do to make the platform a better place to have
your unique voice be heard
. So we’ll be making some adjustments over time to bring you a faster, easier to use and more beautiful Blogger.
To kick things off, we’ve taken a crack at simplifying Blogger’s dashboard so that it’s easier for you to get right to the tools you need. Now, whenever you open Blogger, you’ll be taken right to your blog with the most recent post, putting you one click or tap closer to drafting something new.
We’ve also updated Blogger’s header bar, making it consistent with what you’ll find in other Google products. And as part of our commitment to building products that are accessible for all, we’ve adjusted Blogger’s colors to make things easier to see.
We’re starting small with these adjustments, but hope they help you create more amazing work. Please send any feedback our way and stay tuned for more updates to come.
Happy blogging!
Posted by Guy Ronen, Product Manager
More custom template flexibility
May 24, 2016
Last May, we
added some expressions
to our templating language to make it easier for you to customize your blog’s look and feel. These new expressions proved popular with those of you who enjoy advanced blogging tools, so we wanted to offer you even more flexibility.
Starting today, we’re introducing a new set of operators, which we’re calling lambda expressions, that allow you to apply rules to whole sets of data (think posts, comments, or labels), rather than just individual instances.
Let’s say you wanted to add a flower image to all posts with the label “Flower,” for example. With lambda expressions, simply define a variable name that each item in the set will take, and then refer to the variable name as though it were each item.
<!-- Show a Flower image if the post has the label flower -->
<b:if
cond=
'
data:post.labels any (l => l.name == "Flower")
'
>
<img src=’/img/flower.jpg’ />
<b:if/>
An example of adding a flower icon to posts labelled 'Flower'
There’s lots more that you can do using lambda expressions, like only showing posts in your feed with a given label or quickly calculating how many posts you have with a given number of comments. For a full list of the new lambda expressions available, check out
the help forum
.
Happy Blogging! 😃
Posted by Luke, Software Engineer
Keep your readers interested with the AdSense Guide to Audience Engagement
May 06, 2016
Today, information is at our fingertips and we can access it from anywhere on any device. Just a few taps pull up millions of websites all competing for our attention. For bloggers, engaging with your audience has never been more important or more challenging. To help lay the foundation to a winning engagement strategy, the AdSense team created the
AdSense Guide to Audience Engagement.
Research shows
that
29% of smartphone users will immediately switch to another site or app if it doesn’t satisfy their needs.
To help keep your audience engaged, get your free copy of the
AdSense Guide to Audience Engagement
.
In the guide, you’ll learn:
How to help your audience become familiar with your brand
Best practices to design user journeys
How to develop content that resonates with your audience
Ways to make your content easy to consume
Why you should share the love with other sites by referring to good sources
If you’re interested in more updates from the Google AdSense team, follow us on
Google+
and
Twitter
. We’d love to hear what you think.
Posted by Jay Castro, the AdSense Team.
Bringing HTTPS to all blogspot domain blogs
May 03, 2016
[Cross-posted from the
Google Security Blog
]
HTTPS is fundamental to internet security; it protects the integrity and confidentiality of data sent between websites and visitors' browsers. Last September, we
began
rolling out HTTPS support for blogspot domain blogs so you could try it out. Today, we’re launching another milestone: an HTTPS version for every blogspot domain blog. With this change, visitors can access any blogspot domain blog over an encrypted channel.
The HTTPS indicator in the Chrome browser
As part of this launch, we're removing the HTTPS Availability setting. Even if you did not previously turn on this setting, your blogs will have an HTTPS version enabled.
We’re also adding a
new setting called HTTPS Redirect
that allows you to opt-in to redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS. While all blogspot blogs will have an HTTPS version enabled, if you turn on this new setting, all visitors will be redirected to the HTTPS version of your blog at
https
://<your-blog>.blogspot.com even if they go to
http
://<your-blog>.blogspot.com. If you choose to turn off this setting, visitors will have two options for viewing your blog: the unencrypted version at
http
://<your-blog>.blogspot.com or the encrypted version at
https
://<your-blog>.blogspot.com.
The new HTTPS Redirect setting in the Blogger dashboard
Please be aware that
mixed content
may cause some of your blog's functionality not to work in the HTTPS version. Mixed content is often caused by incompatible templates, gadgets, or post content. While we're proactively fixing most of these errors, some of them can only be fixed by you, the blog authors. To help
spot and fix
these errors, we recently
released
a mixed content warning tool that alerts you to possible mixed content issues in your posts, and gives you the option to fix them automatically before saving.
Existing links and bookmarks to your blogs are not affected by this launch, and will continue to work. Please note that blogs on custom domains will not yet have HTTPS support.
This update expands Google's
HTTPS Everywhere
mission to all blogspot domain blogs. We appreciate your
feedback
and will use it to make future improvements.
Posted by Milinda Perera, Software Engineer, Security
An update to the Blogger post editor to help with mixed content
April 19, 2016
Back in September
, we announced that HTTPS support was coming to blogspot.com, making it possible for you to encrypt connections to your blog; since then, many of you have enabled HTTPS for your blogs. In some cases, not all of your blog’s functionality has worked over HTTPS due to
mixed content errors
often stemming from your template, gadgets, or blog post content.
To help
spot and fix
some of these errors, we're releasing a mixed content warning tool that alerts you to possible mixed content issues in your posts, and gives you the option to fix them automatically before saving.
To use the tool,
turn on HTTPS for your blog
, open the Blogger editor HTML view, and click Save or Publish. If the editor detects any errors they will be shown above the editor, along with the option to fix the errors found.
Happy blogging!
Posted by Shweta Karwa, Software Engineer, Security.
Best practices for reviewing products you've received for free
March 11, 2016
Editor's note: This post was cross posted from the
Google Webmaster Central Blog
.
As a form of online marketing, some companies today will send bloggers free products to review or give away in return for a mention in a blogpost. Whether you’re the company supplying the product or the blogger writing the post, below are a few best practices to ensure that this content is both useful to users and compliant with
Google Webmaster Guidelines
.
Use the nofollow tag where appropriate
Links that pass PageRank in exchange for goods or services are against
Google guidelines on link schemes
. Companies sometimes urge bloggers to link back to:
the company’s site
the company’s social media accounts
an online merchant’s page that sells the product
a review service’s page featuring reviews of the product
the company’s mobile app on an app store
Bloggers should use the
nofollow tag
on all such links because these links didn’t come about organically (i.e., the links wouldn’t exist if the company hadn’t offered to provide a free good or service in exchange for a link). Companies, or the marketing firms they’re working with, can do their part by reminding bloggers to use nofollow on these links.
Disclose the relationship
Users want to know when they’re viewing sponsored content. Also, there are laws in some countries that make disclosure of sponsorship mandatory. A disclosure can appear anywhere in the post; however, the most useful placement is at the top in case users don’t read the entire post.
Create compelling, unique content
The most successful blogs offer their visitors a compelling reason to come back. If you're a blogger you might try to become the go-to source of information in your topic area, cover a useful niche that few others are looking at, or provide exclusive content that only you can create due to your unique expertise or resources.
For more information, please drop by our
Google Webmaster Central Help Forum
.
Posted by the Google Webspam Team
An update on Google Friend Connect
December 21, 2015
In 2011,
we announced
the retirement of Google Friend Connect for all non-Blogger sites. We made an exception for Blogger to give readers an easy way to follow blogs using a variety of accounts. Yet over time, we’ve seen that most people sign into Friend Connect with a Google Account. So, in an effort to streamline, in the next few weeks we’ll be making some changes that will eventually require readers to have a Google Account to sign into Friend Connect and follow blogs.
As part of this plan, starting the week of January 11, we’ll remove the ability for people with Twitter, Yahoo, Orkut or other OpenId providers to sign in to Google Friend Connect and follow blogs. At the same time, we’ll remove non-Google Account profiles so you may see a decrease in your blog follower count.
We encourage you to tell affected readers (perhaps via a blog post), that if they use a non-Google Account to follow your blog, they need to sign up for a Google Account, and re-follow your blog. With a Google Account, they’ll get blogs added to their Reading List, making it easier for them to see the latest posts and activity of the blogs they follow.
We know how important followers are to all bloggers, but we believe this change will improve the experience for both you and your readers.
Posted by Michael Goddard, Software Engineer
Highlight the posts that matter the most
December 10, 2015
As bloggers, we all know how important it is to post frequently in order to encourage readers to come back. Of course, the more you post, the more quickly your posts slip down into the archives, making it harder for your readers to discover everything you’ve posted that they might be interested in.
To help make it easier to showcase the posts you want your readers to see, we’ve created a new gadget called Featured Post. With Featured Post, you can choose posts you’ve shared on your blog and highlight them wherever you’d like.
Whether you’d like to re-share that delicious holiday recipe from a few years back, spotlight a can’t-miss promotion you’re running, or just revive something quirky from the archives, the Featured Post gadget is a simple way to show off the content that matters most.
To try it, just head to your Layout tab, add a gadget, and select ‘Featured Post’. You’ll be able to place the gadget wherever you’d like on your blog and then choose the post you’d like to show. If you’d like to highlight something new, you can change the post you feature at any time.
Happy blogging!
Posted by Guy Ronen, Product Manager
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