(Added 16 May, 2009) First an apology to anyone who found this post while it was looking a mess. For some reason Blogger decided to do away with all the paragraphs and replace them with line breaks. Some it turned into divs and it took out all the highlighting. Why? Only Blogger knows. I have now reformatted it and it should be easier to follow.

This is a fairly long post so I recommend that you read it all the way through before changing any code.

At the moment there is a problem with feeds on Blogger and many people are finding that when they upload a template to Blogger they are unable to configure the “Recent Comments” and “Recent Posts” widgets supplied with the templates. All they get is a blank and unresponsive Configure Feed window as below.

Continue reading "The Blank Configure Feed Problem"

 

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In Blogger templates a separate page has been used for posting comments on a blog. But now they have enabled an embedded comment form, which is available in all standard Blogger templates.

To use the embedded form you will need to go to the Settings>Comments page from your Dashboard and scroll down to find the “Comment Form Placement” settings and select the radio button for “Embedded below post”. Then scroll to the bottom of the page and save the new setting.

If you are using one of Bloggers templates you will now have a much neater embedded comment form. However, if you have customised your template or are using a third party template it will probably not work. You will need to add a simple line of code.

First go to Layout>Edit HTML and take the sensible precaution of clicking on “Download Full Template” in case of disasters. Then tick the “Expand Widget Templates” box and, using your browser’s Search or Find tool, look for the following line of code:

<b:include data='post' name='comments'/>

Then add the following line of code immediately below this.

<b:include data='post' name='comment-form'/>

When you have done this save your template and you should now have the embedded comment form available in your blog. Remember that the form will only show on the individual post pages and not on the Home Page of your blog.

For a more in depth article see this post by Amanda Fazani on Blogger Buster.

 

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