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Looping through the listing of blog posts <b:loop values='data:posts' var='post'> Inside the loop data:posts changes to data.post (determined by the value of var, set here as va…

This tip was created by us to solve a challenge that one of our readers left for us on our Resizing your thumbnails in Blogger's Popular Posts widget  post. Initially we decided to make take this…

Why didn't we think of this sooner?!?!? Most blogs on  +Blogger  take advantage of the Popular Posts widget in their blog, and to some extent, most people wish it could look better or do more. Fo…

Video bloggers, as well as bloggers that simply have some YouTube videos in their blog posts, have been requesting a version of our Thumbnail and Summary Script that includes the functionality for Y…

In many of our tips we recommend wrapping the Javascript code that we're providing in something called a "if statement" and a "page type"; these two structures (in the form of…

It seems as though we're getting a bit carried away with our thumbnail and summary script ... we've created another one for you! This one is also by request; the desire to have the first pos…

Our thumbnail and summary script was such a success that people have been asking us for further and further customization based off of it. The most frequent request has been the ability to set just …

This tip mainly applies to blogs that take advantage of jump breaks in their posts as a way to shorten posts on the front page(s) with links to the full post. In cases where you use jump breaks to li…

You've done it. You've finished a long, thoughtful blog post, spell-checked it a few times, re-read it to make sure your grammar wasn't too awful, and you're ready to publish. You com…

It's been a while since we took a look at the Blogger navbar, mainly because we simply got in the habit of using CSS to remove it ! It turns out that at some time in the past few months the Blogg…

For a long time I've been disappointed with the way most content management systems provide image captions in their WYSIWYG editors. Many, including Blogger, create an old-school table wrapped ar…

In the spirit of sharing, we've decided to open up our Sartorial 2 and Sartorial 3 templates for free download! Unlike most templates that you download from the web, these make full usage of th…

In our last post we discussed the types of RSS feeds that your Blogger site automatically creates for you, and how to use the URL string to change the types of content returned in the feed. Examples…

We came across a comment on Google+ this morning that had us scratching our heads, mainly because we never noticed this odd behavior in Blogger, but once noticed, it really is strangely wrong. Basic…

A few weeks ago we posted an article on our corporate blog entitled " Forget Facebook; keep your fans to yourself! ". The gist of the article is that by focusing too much on growing your F…

When we first started creating custom websites using Blogger, one of the first real script needs that we ran up against was the need for an automatic thumbnail and read more function, one where you c…