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Looking for a section that used to be here? Solved hacks are moved to the Solved Requests page, along with links to the solutions. Feel free to move your own requests there when solved.
Do you want a particular feature for your blog? Are you pretty sure that it is possible? Add a new section to this page describing your requirements in detail and linking to examples, or to the site that you'd like to edit. I can't promise that your need will be met, but I hope to guarantee that it will be seen by people who can help.
To help the community to understand what you're looking for, please include:
- A full description of the feature that you're looking for.
- An explanation of the purpose.
- A link to your blog, or to any other resources / examples that you want to use.
The more detail you are able to provide, the more likely it is that another user will be able to assist you.
New Requests
Drop-down list for posts in alphabetical order for a specific label (or labels)
April 15, 2007.
I'm interested in a hack where I can add multiple drop-down lists (or menus) in a widget (or different widgets, doesn't matter) that will display only the post titles in alphabetical order for a label (or labels) that has been hard-coded/determined by me. Selecting the post title from the drop-down list will load the contents of that post. I'm using new blogger.
To give you an idea, this hack here: http://hoctro.blogspot.com/2006/12/killer-hack-contents-by-category.html does the job but displays the posts in a flat-list, which is not useful to me. I'm specifically looking for a drop-down list. Also, I do not want to use any external tag/label website like del.ici.ous to accomplish this.
My blog is at http://lotusnova.blogspot.com/
Thanks.
-Amit
Separe posts by Authors (or Labels)
I am starting a blog with a friend and would like to separe the two authors into two different columns, that is, on the left column show the posts by a Author 1 and on the right by Author 2. If it helps, It could be a specific label on the left column and another on the right! I already have the CSS template for left / right columns, I just don't know what code loads posts that match this specific criteria..
- This shouldn't be too hard. Just place two <script> tags in the two columns. One pointing to the feed of your label, one to that of the other's label. Append the same 'callback' to both of them, and when the page loads, the callbacks will be fired with the required data. The callbacks themselves can write out the posts contained in the feed :) Let me know if need help coding it out. Cheers! --Aditya 03:39, 12 May 2007 (EDT)
Clicking a Label will show limited post
Presently, when we click on a label, say with 100 post, then blogger show all 100 post in a single page. Is there any hack through which we can limit it to say, Five with link to see next five and so on?
Cookies for peek-a-boo
Remember the state of peek-a-boo comments in a cookie and maintain that state when the visitor next comes. Doable, but probably take a bit. Suggested at http://singpolyma-tech.blogspot.com/2006/10/comments-on-mainarchive-page-peek-boo.html#c116591239141648939
Hide Posts From Homepage And Archive Pages
I want to hide certain posts from the home page and the archive pages, but I still want to show the post on its own page. Eg:
Hide Post: MYBLOG.blogspot.com/
Hide Post: MYBLOG.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html
Show Post: MYBLOG.blogspot.com/2007/01/POSTNAME.html
Also, I'd like to hide these certain posts from the RSS/Atom feed.
I don't know very much about how Blogger's special template markup works, but I saw some stuff that looks like it is possible to do if/then logic.
Maybe have if/then logic saying
if on home page
if post has label [name of hidden label]
then don't show post
I think that may be possible but I'm not sure just how.
- This could turn rather ugly, especially if you want to use Blogger's native language. You'll have to put whole chunks within [b:if] tags, which will become hard to debug later on. I suggest a more direct, Javascript-ed approach, which will check the 'labels' container for a matching string, and hide the whole post if TRUE. Does that sound better? --Aditya 09:11, 19 March 2007 (EST)
Hide sidebar previous posts on some recent posts
Description: As I use the Blogger navigation in my sidebar myself a lot, so I have added the 'previous' Blogger template code to the main archive and both a 'previous' and 'recent'(using Social bookmarks javascript linkroll) section to item pages sidebars so I'm sure I can access all my posts easily.
Problem: This works fine on old posts but on the first newer posts (item pages) they both show nearly the same links, so I would like to hide the 'recent' sidebar block, on say, the the first 3 new posts.
Link: The blog in question.
Any idea how I could do that?
Thanks, it's a great idea this wiki! Ycc2106 07:04, 24 July 2006 (EDT)
Merge blogs
Basically, I have 6 personal blogs on my Blogger dashboard. That's because I wanted categorization before Blogger Beta introduced labels. For a number of reasons, I want to merge my blogs into one. If there is a way to import all the posts from one blog into another, that would be an ideal solution. Please advise or create a hack to do this, thanks in advance. My blog is here at www.Shan.ca.tf
Blogsend: No Linkback to Main Blog
I have a Blogger Blog that I've been updating since the Dawn of time, but my friends are all on LiveJournal. Using the Blogsend function, I'm able to update the LiveJournal without actually ever stepping foot on LJ, BUT the issue becomes that BlogSend automatically adds a footer with a linkback to the main Blog. I need to figure out a way to circumvent that, for privacy reasons on my main blog and to protect my guestbloggers. Any ideas? Thanks!!
Tag Hack for Qumana
I want to use Qumana for my post editing for Blogger. It works much better with Blogger than Performancing. But I want to change the tagging option from Technocratii to RawSugar (as exists with the great BlogThis/Tag hack.)
My guess it's a simple business of changing the urlsoemnwhere in the Qunama script. Where? How?
Way to Add The Digg Button To a Beta Blogger Blog Hack
This tutorial for the digg button for a blogger blog doesn't work in the new beta blogger. I would appreciate it if someone made a digg button code for the new beta blogger. If you'd liek to know what kind of template I use, if that will help you, check All About Google Adsense.Thank You in advance.
Chronological order of posts (Blogger/Blogspot)
Hello together,
first off i'd like thank everybody who has put his/her effort into this wiki in order to have a platform for hacks and new ideas...
Ever since i started blogging i wanted to have the possibility to reverse the order in which the posts appear on my blog's mainpage. And please don't get me wrong, I'm well aware of the very nature of a blog and therefore having all the new stuff on top.
BUT: I'm running a team blog with a handful of friends and we're often posting stories in sequence or referencing things that one of our members was writing in the past...
So the problem is, when one hasn't checked in to read the latest stories for quite a while, he looses the context and must read the older posts first to understand the current ones.
Before we migrated to the new version of Blogger we had a solution based on this hack: [1]
A quick look into the new widget-model and XML-stuff of the new Blogger system revealed the total incompatibility of this hack.
So the question is, does anybody know how to realise this along with the new Blogger or at least know how the looping of the posts inside that post widget works?
Discussed Requests
Comments on archive pages (Blogger/Blogspot)
Hello together,
Is there a way to sort comments on archive pages with the newest one on top?
