I have been thinking of migrating my blog from Blogger to a WordPress-solution hosted on my own domain. After doing some research, I decided “what the heck”, and downloaded and installed the package. The installation went without a hitch, and I went on to find a decent theme for the blog. Having downloaded and installed… Continue reading Migrating from Blogger to WordPress
Category: Blogger
Automatically tweeting your blog posts
I’ve been using twitter for a while now, and lately, I’ve been posting my blog posts as tweets. However, I don’t do it manually. Rather, I’ve set it up to be posted automagically. Setting it up is as simple as it could possibly be. Here’s how:
Adding a Twitter feed to Blogspot
One of the big things of today is micro-blogging. If you don’t know what it is, think of Facebook, and then think of the status field in Facebook. Strip most of the other functionality away. That’s microblogging. In other words; microblogging is responding to the question “What are you doing right now?” I’ve got… Continue reading Adding a Twitter feed to Blogspot
Blogger – displaying the latest comments gadget
From time to time, people comment on my blogposts (you may too by the way, just click the “# COMMENTS” link below to comment on this post), and at times they even comment on very old blogposts, such as this one, dated September 14th, 2007. The problem with this is that unless you actually read… Continue reading Blogger – displaying the latest comments gadget
Adding a label cloud to your BlogSpot blog
I like to apply all the relevant labels or tags to my blog posts, so that they are easily found through search. I was getting annoyed that my list of tags was getting longer than my actual blog, and decided to do something about it. There are many ways of doing it, from adding javascript… Continue reading Adding a label cloud to your BlogSpot blog
Adding a favicon to a Blogger or BlogSpot blog
As you might notice, I’ve got a favicon, a small picture, on my blog. Here’s what it looks like in Firefox: It’s actually pretty simple to implement in Blogger. To do it, you’ll need to have somewhere to store the favicon file. Favicons are imagefiles (dimensions 16 by 16 pixels) ending in .ico.… Continue reading Adding a favicon to a Blogger or BlogSpot blog