[New Blogger] How do I reset the "edit posts" page?

I too have switched to the new blogger...

I am trying to give labels to my posts, but am finding it frustrating. I set the "edit posts" page to show 300. When I click "older," it shows the next 50, not the next 300. Then I click on a post to add labels and post, but when I do, it brings me back to my first 50 posts again. Does anyone know a way to set it to show 300 posts all the time?

And while Im at it...I am really loving these labels. Is there a way to make that label list that appears on my "edit posts" page actually show up on my blog?

This Post was written by Rachael from Fresh Approach

[Wordpress] 2.1 migration issues

If anyone's considering migrating to 2.1, FYI the upgrade totally barfed on our site. We can’t upload photos using the editor, nor attach links. Even more amusingly, the misbehavior is totally different on IE vs Firefox. (And Cameron says that the support forums are filled with finger-pointing and denial. Sweet.)

Since hand-coding really sucks, we’re rolling back to 2.0.7 tonight and then manually reposting today’s post and about a dozen comments. Fun...

(And here I was, all worried about my non-food blog and the New Blogger migration, which went off flawlessly.)

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This post was written by Anita from Married... with Dinner

[New Blogger] Sidebar issue

Since I switched to new Blogger, I've mostly been thrilled with it. However, there is one small issue that's driving me crazy. My blog looks fine in Firefox, but in Internet Explorer there is a small box after the right sidebar that should not be there. In the box is a word or a few letters which are the end of the phrase right above it (I have IE at home and school, two different versions, and they both look slightly different.)

I have looked and looked at my template and I don't see anything wrong. I recently removed the footer and I thought maybe I had removed a [/div] tag that should be there, but even when I add one in, it's still screwed up.

(BTW, it's impossible to preview your template in IE, from what I can tell. My blog does not display correctly when I hit preview, although when it's published it looks fine. The preview function works great in Firefox though, so if you're doing manual template editing I recommend using Firefox.)

If anyone who has IE on their computer would take a look and let me know if they see anything that might be causing this, I'd greatly appreciate it.

(Edit 1-31-07: I still haven't had any suggestions about what's causing this. I'd love to know what's doing it if anyone has any suggestions.)

This Post was written by Kalyn from Kalyn's Kitchen

Check for your content...

Hi All,

I recently found unauthorized use of my blog content with no credit given and no contact info on the site. After a bit of annoyance, I managed to get Google to remove ads from the site. Since this point, the site owner has removed my content (Yay!), but there is still a lot of other stuff up on the site that may not be authorized. Google is going to re-enable ads on the site unless I bring a restraining order... and since my content isn't being stolen anymore, I'm backing off.

However, I do recommend folks checking it out. The site (I won't link to it) is at www.articlelads.com/baking101/

This Post was written by L from Cook & Eat

Help

Some of my friends that use explorer with pc (with mac no problems, just pc...) say that they do not see the header of my blog... And I'm afraid this problem is going on sice I switched to the new blogger, at the end of December...
The piece of html I use (and used in the older blogger version) is this:

/* Header
-----------------------------------------------
*/

#header-wrapper {
width:750px;
height:200px;
margin:0 auto 10px;
border:0px solid $bordercolor;
}

#header {
margin: 0px;
border: 0px solid $bordercolor;
text-align: center;
color:$pagetitlecolor;
}

#header h1 {
margin:0px 0px 0;
padding:120px 10px .25em;
line-height:1.2em; background:url("http://farm1.static.flickr.com/137/338848211_8ad78c9ca4_o.jpg")no-repeat left top;
}

#header a {
color:$pagetitlecolor;
text-decoration:none;
}

#header a:hover {
color:$pagetitlecolor;
}

#header .description {
margin:0 5px 5px;
padding:0 20px 15px;
max-width:750px;
text-transform:uppercase;
letter-spacing:.2em;
line-height: 1.4em;
font: $descriptionfont;
color: $descriptioncolor;

}

Can someone help me?


This Post was written by Sara - Piperita from The Kitchen Pantry

Fixed Width Drop Down Menu Code

This is an example from the class of Swedes:

<form name="Swedes">
<select name="selitems" style="width:215px;" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 204);" onchange="javascript:window.location.href=''
+document.Swedes.selitems
[document.Swedes.selitems.selectedIndex].value;">
<option value="http://foodblogscool.blogspot.com/" selected>Class S06 | Swedes</option>
<option value="http://www.mamacooks.com">Mama Cooks</option>
<option value="http://kitchen-notebook.blogspot.com/">Lucy's Kitchen Notebook</option>
<option value="http://www.cforcooking.com">Adding Flavor</option>
<option value="http://www.kungfoodie.com">Kung Foodie</option>
<option value="http://cooking-101.blogspot.com">Cooking 101</option>
<option value="http://www.2tastyladies.com">2 Tasty Ladies</option>
<option value="http://www.theoldfoodie.blogspot.com/">The Old Foodie</option>
<option value="http://www.myfavouriteplum.blogspot.com/">My Favourite Plum</option>
<option value="http://homerecipes.org">Home Recipes</option>
<option value="http://www.dessertfirst.typepad.com">Dessert First</option>
<option value="http://saffrontrail.blogspot.com/">Saffron Trail</option>
<option value="http://yulinkacooks.blogspot.com">Yulinka Cooks</option>
<option value="http://www.foodchair.blogspot.com">Food Chair</option>
<option value="http://www.copperpots.blogspot.com">Copper Pots</option>
<option value="http://www.dailyeats.com">Daily Eats</option>
</select>
</form>

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where Swedes is marked in bold in the above example, edit these 3 iterations of your form name so that they are all unique to your blog roll but the same for each of these three iterations.

"Class S06 | Swedes" should be replaces by whatever you want to be the title of your menu.

specify the width of your menu in pixels ie width:215px;

Hope that makes sense to anyone who would like to have such a menu.

This Post was written by sam from becks & posh

[Misc] Another Way to Market Your Blog

With the recent Food Blog Awards, I discovered a lot of new, wonderful food blogs out there that I might have otherwise missed, and that got me to thinking. It would be great to have a site to highlight new or perhaps undiscovered blogs. So, to that end, Madeline and I recently started In the Bloglight, as a way to do just that ... introduce everyone to blogs they might not have discovered yet. If you want to submit your own, or another, drop us a line at inthebloglight@gmail.com.

Written by Cate at Sweetnicks.

Drop-Down Menus

Before my blog migrated to new blogger, I had drop-down menus for my recipes. Now I don't. They didn't migrate. I didn't like the old ones anyway, since they weren't the kind I wanted. (Mine were variable widths).

I would like to put menus back in my blog - exactly like the ones to the right that Sam uses for the FBS "classes." How do I do that?

Written by Cyndi of Cookin' with Cyndi

Drop-Down Menus

Before my blog migrated to new blogger, I had drop-down menus for my recipes. Now I don't. They didn't migrate. I didn't like the old ones anyway, since they weren't the kind I wanted. (Mine were variable widths).

I would like to put menus back in my blog - exactly like the ones to the right that Sam uses for the FBS "classes." How do I do that?

Written by Cyndi of Cookin' with Cyndi

[new blogger] Photo Linking Problem

Ok, this is where I have to admit I am sneaky. I wanted pictures larger than large in my posts. Blogger allows for a maximum width of 400 pixels when loading up a photo. But, as we all know, if you click on the photo it takes you to a larger version of the loaded photo.

So what I used to do was resize my photo to 550 pixels (width) which is the size of the photo I wanted in my post, loaded it as large and then edited my html to link to the larger version of the photo rather than the 400x one blogger provides. I have been doing this for yonks.

Suddenly, with the advent of new blogger, I am no longer able to hot link to the large version of my own loaded picture. At least the old ones pre-new-blogger work, but not with the photos loaded since I made the switch. The photo is there, it exists, it has an url, but when I paste into my code and publish, the photo does not show in the post.

As you may imagine, this really narks me, since I am no longer able to get large pictures in my post which went a long way to defining the look of my blog. I don't understand why blogger would stop me from soing this - it is clearly not a disk space issue since the photo is physically situated on the server and there is nothing to stop anyone from looking at it via the link.


This Post was written by Sam from Becks & Posh

[Blogger] Food Blog S'cool is now migrated to New Blogger

"Congratulations! Your move to the new Blogger is complete."

Some thing is up with the post template which automatically defaults to compose mode and therefore does not display the html code as it used to. Wil need to look into the settings.

Also - can everyone see my gmail address in the top bar or is it just me?

Additionally - maybe we can all start thinking about labelling our FBS posts in future

Please report any other problems.

Thanks

This Post was written by Sam from Becks & Posh

[Blogger] Food Blog S'cool is now migrated to New Blogger

"Congratulations! Your move to the new Blogger is complete."

Some thing is up with the post template which automatically defaults to compose mode and therefore does not display the html code as it used to. Wil need to look into the settings.

Also - can everyone see my gmail address in the top bar or is it just me?

Please report any other problems.

Thanks

This Post was written by Sam from Becks & Posh

new blogger publishing issue and resolution

Well, I finally migrated to the new blogger this morning. It appears to be successful but I did encounter one problem, due to my ignorance, so I thought I would share it (and the resolution) here in case others experience it.

After migration I could not republish any existing posts. Even when I made absolutely no change to them, I would get the "URL contains illegal characters" error.

After about 45 minutes spent reading the help and playing around I realized that the Link field expects a URL, not just words. I really never understood the function of that Link field. I thought blogger used the text in it to generate the permalink, so I always put my post title there. That worked fine in old blogger but new blogger doesn't like it. If I make it blank, it publishes fine.

Even though I am now able to republish, I would like to understand the function of that Link field. The blogger help is not very helpful. How you do you all use this field?

Thanks!

This Post was written by Lydia from Kitchen Exhibitionist.

[blog identity] Describing Your Blog -in Person

While refining our blog byline serves as a good writing exercise, its not a line I use in the Real World.

When explaining my blog to a friend or acquaintance, I find the first response needs to be succinct, and without the flourish our previous exercise allowed.

My typical first answer:

My blog is where I record my recipes. That way, I never lose them.

Not exactly a colorful response, but I'm working on it.

Distant Relative: You have a blog?
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This Post was written by McAuliflower from Brownie Points Blog.

[NEW blogger] Switching Food Blog S'cool Over

I think I have to switch over Food Blog S'cool to new blogger. I can no longer ignore the annoyance of logging in and out of my gmail and blogger accounts all day long to use one thing and then another. I would like to do it tomorrow but it would be unfair of me not to give everyone notice. So, I hereby give 28 days notice which I hope is reasonable. The blog will not be switched before February 24th 2007. The blog will be switched thereafter at my convenience, I am not sure what my schedule will be at that time.

I imagine members of Food Blog Scool, especially those with blogger accounts, will somehow be affected. I am not sure how - we will cross that bridge together when we come to it and if needs be I will sign up anyone who needs to be signed up again, again.

I will not be signing up any new members until after the switch now. If any current member has any urgent issues that need my attention, please write to me at my regular email address which I check more regularly.

Please let me know in the comments here if there are any concerns, although encouragement would be more welcome!

Further to comments from Kalyn, (thanks Kalyn), I think it might be better to switch asap. Does anyone object to me trying tomorrow?

This Post was written by Sam from Becks & Posh

(Blogger) Using own domain name with new blogger

Someone told me that once you have switched to new blogger they are now offering hosting on your own url, for free, no FTP, and that it's very easy to do. The person I heard this from said that your old blogspot address is eliminated and all the links automatically transfer over.

What they didn't know is what would happen to internal links. Has anyone done this, and if so, do you know if the internal links will transfer as well as external incoming links.

This Post was written by Kalyn from Kalyn's Kitchen.

Has anyone here done a blog name change? I'm considering it (although I'd keep the current name active and use forwarding to keep links from breaking). Any thoughts, comments, or suggestions about "gotchas?"


This Post was written by Kevin from Seriously Good

Update on the blogger switch...

I know I'm not the only one who has had the "invitation" to upgrade to the new blogger, but then told you could not when you tried to accept it. I did my daily check to see if I could this morning and it actually gave me the option to change over the blog.

I will actually change over tonight since I've heard it can take a bit of time for some blogs with large amounts of posts. Has anyone else been able to switch over now that could not before?

This Post was written by Joe from Culinary in the Desert

Sitemeter - have you noticed a problem?

Sitemeter doesn't seem to be updating very well. Is it a problem with Sitemeter or Blogger?

(That was the gist of a question I put up earlier but when I tried to post a reply to the comments below, it disappeared. Anyway, I've written to someone called David whose contact details are provided in the Weblog but have no reply. I think I'll wait it out, what are you all going to do?)

This Post was written by Sra from When My Soup Came Alive

It's Now Easier to Report Copyright Violations on Sites with Google Ads

If you sign up for "Google Alerts" using your name and the name of your blog they send you a daily e-mail when those words appear online. If you do it, you'll probably be unpleasantly surprised how many sites you'll find that are stealing your content.

For quite a while now I've been systematically reporting to Google when I find sites that are scraping my feed and using my content to create a "splog" purely to host ads. (Splog means spam+blog.) I am encouraged that lately I am seeing "this site has been archived or suspended" on sites that I have reported.

Recently Google has made it even easier to report copyright violations with only a few clicks on sites that have google ads. Here's how to do it:

1. Where the ads are click "Ads by Google"
2. In new window click "Send Google your thoughts on the site on the ads you just saw"
3. Scroll down, click "Also report a violation"
4. From menu, "The issue is with", check box "The Website"
5. From menu, check box "The site is hosting/distributing my copyrighted material"

You can leave your e-mail address or not. I don't usually bother to leave it unless it's a site that is consistently stealing from me.

Posted by Kalyn from Kalyn's Kitchen