Unfortunately the widget described in this post no longer works. At first it refused to show in Firefox 3.5, but worked perfectly in all other browsers. Then it suddenly stopped working in all the browsers I tried, so I have now replaced it and will post the details as soon as I can.

This is a slightly belated answer to one of my readers who wants to add a Popular Posts widget just as I have in the footer of this blog.

Update: I changed the title to Popular Posts 30-05-2009.

If you scroll to the footer you will only see the Most Commented widget  and not Popular Posts. This is because they are the same thing. They work by counting the number of comments your posts receive then listing them with the most popular at the top. What you call it is up to you, but I have also seen them called Favourite Posts, Best Posts and several other names. But Most Commented and Popular Posts are what most people look for and understand.

I was reading Making Money Online 101 (this link no longer works) which is a WordPress blog using the original version of this Blogging Pro template. When I reached the bottom and saw the Most Commented column I decided that I would like it on my blog. So I went in search of the right widget.

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Someone who uses this blog template has tried to put Google AdSense For Search into the search box at the head of this template and come seriously unstuck. So this article is to try to provide an answer to the question posed in the comments section of eBlog Templates.

Paul Antczak
thank,,,
but how to replace google seach in the search box???
i dnt knw abt xml or rss code
teach me T_T…. huhuhu

Obviously this will be mostly of interest to those of you who use Blogging Pro, but parts may be useful for other bloggers.

I have set up a a test blog to work on it and show how the search box looks but I have not yet added anything else to the template on that site.

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Blogger is constantly improving the way that it works in order to give us a better service. This is great and it means that users can get the best performance out of their Blogger blogs. Unfortunately it does cause problems for those of us who choose to make our blogs a little more individual by using third party templates.

Some of these problems include the inability to save the template once it is uploaded because the dreaded and totally unfathomable BX error window pops up and leaves a message that no one can understand.

Sometimes the template starts to save and you confirm that you want to replace the widgets in the list. Then along comes the message:

The new widget id "Recent-Posts-Widget2" is invalid for type: Feed
or
The new widget id "ads2" is invalid for type: HTML
or
The new widget id "search" is invalid for type: HTML

and nothing seems to solve this.

So, let’s look at a cure.

Continue reading "Fixing Problems Uploading Templates to Blogger"

 

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Do you ever wonder what is going on with your blogs when strange things happen? I certainly do and sometimes I am just left shaking my head as there seems to be no rational explanation.

My most popular post so far is The Blank Configure Feed Problem because a lot of bloggers are experiencing the same problem as I did. Then I started getting comments that the Recent Comments widget was not working. So I looked at the post and it was a mess.

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One of the things that many designers tend to leave out of their templates is the Quick Edit Pencil for posts. A lot of blog owners want it back as it is very useful to have and saves some time in getting back to the post you wish to edit.

There have been a lot of search results leading to the previous article about restoring quick edit links to widgets: How to Replace Quick Edit Links but they all came from searches for the Quick Edit Pencil.

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(See also: Restoring the Quick Edit Pencil to Posts.)

One thing that many of the template designers do is to leave the Quick Edit links out of the widgets they supply with their templates. There are times when their absence can be quite frustrating. This is particularly true if your blog does not have the Blogger Navbar so that you can click on Customise to return to the Layout>Page Elements tab.

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Although this is a new blog there already several posts which have attracted many comments. Some of these are queries which I will always try to answer by leaving a comment.

Therein lies a problem as there is no guarantee that the commenters will know that I have answered the query. They will have to keep coming back to see if there is an answer, but there is no guarantee that I can answer immediately.

Continue reading "Add a Comment Feed for Individual Posts"

 

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Today Insider-Insights asked me an intriguing question in a comment:

Hi, what if I dont want to remove the counter instead I just want it to appear on the right side of the months ( e.g MAY (3) APRIL (2))rather than seeing it below the Months? Thanks.

This set me thinking because I have found that if you use a standard Blogger template the post count appears next to the year or month in the Blog Archive list. But, when the Blog Archive widget is added to a third party template the count always appears below the year or month. This is untidy and was one of the main reasons that I decided to remove the count from my Blog Archive lists.

Continue reading "Moving the Blog Archive Count in Third Party Templates"

 

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Anyone who has downloaded the Blogging Pro template (the template used for this blog) from eBlog Templates will have noticed one slight display problem.

The template is supplied with a built in AdSense location in the header. If you choose not to use AdSense ads or if your reader is using an ad blocker then the ad space collapses and the top of the right column covers most of the RSS subscription buttons. You may also have noticed this if you use an external blog editor such as Windows Live Writer to write and preview your post.

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