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Request Hacks

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:

1. A full description of the feature that you're looking for.

2. An explanation of the purpose.

3. 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.

Have The Last Word

As a blogger, I welcome a large number of comments on my controversial posts. Being opinionated, I like to have the last word too. While I monitor discussions, keeping track of whether or not each post is "open" (ie I haven't had the final say) is difficult.

I'd like a tool that will provide me with a list of my posts that have comments where the last one wasn't written by me, along with the contents of the last comment and a link to the appropriate comment editing page for that post.

I imagine I could go to a page, enter a URL and my blogger name, then click a button. The results page would consist of a list of links and comments. Dates might be nice too. It wouldn't need to be integrated into my blog, be very stylish or even reliable, since it's just a tool I could check periodically when feeling bored.

It might have an option to show only posts where I have commented but I am not the last commenter. This would be handy for blogs that I don't own, but comment on frequently.

The building blocks for such a solution might include:

• "My comments blog" (HTML) via Comment Feed Using Another Blog
• "My comments feed" (RSS) via above
• Thom's Comment Feed using remote parser
• Ramani's Archive Browser
• Ramani's One-click Notification

Any takers?

-Greg.

• Aren't we talking something like coComment or co.mments, etc? -- Singpolyma 09:21, 7 November 2006 (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)

Sending email notification to ALL contributors when a posting or a comment is added

Description

We are a team who uses a blog to submit ideas and propose solutions to each other.

The Problem

So far we have not yet found a suitable and easy way to get all the contributors in the blog notified when a posting or a comment is submitted. We have looked at the settings and found that as regards postings it only allows the individual submitting a posting to receive notification and as regards comments, only the administrator to receive notification. In both instances only one email address is allowed in the field.

A solution

Anybody with enough technical expertise [which we inthe blog do not have] could try and guide us towards a solution?

The blog in question is: http://edtf.blogspot.com

Thanks for your help.

Max

Max: May I suggest a comment feed? These are standard in Blogger beta, but there are plenty of versions that will work for regular blogger. One possible solution... use the blogger comment notification e-mail address to post new comments to a specially set-up google group, the have all of your team members join the group. They'll be able to get notice of the updates by e-mail, or use a feedreader to subscribe to the group's feed. See Freshblog for more info.

• Comments feed subbed to by email is definitely the textbook answer. Another option could be to have the Gmail account that is receiving notifications (you are on Gmail, right? ;) ) filter the incomings to auto-forward to all members. - Singpolyma 09:26, 7 November 2006 (EST)

fixed blog index page (kind of a blog home page)

Description: i'm trying to make a blog for my phd research and i want to make it like a webpage but with the perks of the blogger. so i'd like to have a fixed intro page with a description of my research and then use the labels to divide the blog into relevant areas similar to a webpage. right now i've added the tab label hack from hackosphere.

Problem: i just need a simple way to have one post permanently displayed when someone loads the blog and then they can click on the labels/tabs to see the rest of the blog like a webpage.

Link: The blog in question.

thanks

Solution

at least a possible solution.... Check out Caramuel's category hack. This hack allows you to categorise your content, but also allows you to force the display of a given category when your main page loads.... So, put your intro / sticky post in its own category, then force that category to load as the default....

Author Comments

Description I want a way to make it so when I comment on my own posts, my comments appear with a different font color.

Link Ramani of Hackosphere uses it on his blog. You can see it in action here. I just don't know how to do it.

Author Comments Highlighting comes to us courtesy of Aditya at The Last Word. Enjoy.

• Another option is Comment Photos and Highlighting (the photos are totally optional) - Singpolyma 09:28, 7 November 2006 (EST)

Expandable Posts in Blogger Beta

Description I want a way to make expandable posts like we saw in 5Memes. The problem is that the hack in this wiki teachs how to make that on Blogger's template, but Blogger's Beta Templates are different and they don´t have the Style tags. Link 5Memes

Hide the labels field from the main page and post pages

Labels are nice and all, but they take too much space off the main page and post pages. I still want ot label my posts, but I dont want to display them after each post...

Solution

A possible solution courtesy of Michael and Hoctro, both of whom have played with Blogger Beta's new "if / then" logic to create the conditional display of content on certain kinds of page. I'd recommend that you leave your labels on your post pages, so that readers can see how you've categorised a post, & follow the link to a category that they're interested in,... but hey, it's your blog! This will probably work w/ minimal customisation.

Make link go to wikipedia

I want [[foo]] to go to the Wikipedia page called "foo". How?

That's a page outside this wiki, so you'll need a single square bracket, full url, space, link anchor word, closing single square bracket, like this:

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo Foo]

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!!

Pick up labels in adding to delicious (beta)

I know there is a known hack to add capability to link to delicious from beta blogger posts. But right now it does not pick up labels of the post and create automatic tags for delicious bookmark. I know it should be not so difficult to include the tags for the delicious link.

I am quite used to the current Greasemonkey method to tag my non-beta blog posts and am itching to move to the new beta, but this is one big roadblock for me.

Any takers?

http://usctrojan98.blogspot.com

My feeds for autodetection (beta)

Is it possible to add my feedburner feed in the beta blog so that autodetection is done on the feedburner feed rather than the default Atom feed or even the beta blogger RSS feed?

http://usctrojan98.blogspot.com

• See these comments over on FreshBlog: #1, #2, #3 - Singpolyma 09:32, 7 November 2006 (EST)

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?

Label Hacks

I am curious to know if we could have a Label Cloud thats displays the most labels most used on my blog page. OR I also wish to know if I can display the most used lables on my blog instead of the whole list of labels.

https://tarunsblogs.blogspot.com

• See Code for Beta Blogger Label Cloud and Setup and configuration for Blogger in Beta Label Clouds - Singpolyma 09:35, 7 November 2006 (EST)

Want Visitors List at bottom of each post, in Blogger Beta

I'd like to have a list, at the end of each post, that gives the name of all the people who left a comment, and links that name to the website URL they left in the comment form. You can see what I mean here: http://wystful1.blogspot.com/ At the end of each post is a 'Visitors List'.

Can someone tell me how to implement this for Blogger Beta? Thanks.

http://caylynn.blogspot.com

• Commentor names / links to their comments would be entirely possible modding my peek-a-boo hack, commentor URL would require hugely more scraping (and may not be possible at all). If anyone finds a way please let me know, though, it would be nice in my hack! - Singpolyma 09:39, 7 November 2006 (EST)

Bypass "This blog is open to invited readers only"

This freaking annoying new blogger beta function disallows random users to view blogs, anyone has a workaround for this? thx

Related Posts from your blog under a post you just wrote

I'd like to have a short list of related posts that I have written on my blog underneath the post I just wrote. I've seen this hack on non betta blogger, but have yet to see it on beta. Thanks.

http://frugallawstudent.blogspot.com

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.