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Blogger has recently changed its blogging interface suddenly. While retaining most of its old interface features, but in a modern format, it has added new features too - like post selection by page numbers in drop down list, view count and comment count for each post, etc. The preference of retaining the old interface is gone; all are commonly presented with only the new Post Editor interface for blog posting. Uploading of images to the Post Editor has been made easier now. Read more about this here --> Moving to the New Blogger Interface.
Old is gold always for the Bloggers using Google Docs! But it is not easy now to get the old version of Google Docs. Then how Bloggers like me get the old version? Read here the way that I follow routinely whenever I prepare a document for publishing it in a blog as a blog post:
Sign in Google Docs --> click on the white wheel of Options --> select New Features! in the list --> scroll down to New Google document graduates --> click Learn more in it --> The New version of Google documents --> click on the link given at the foot of the page --> old version of Google Docs opens in a separate tab!
But as I have found it tedious to go through all these steps for getting the old version, now I choose this easy way of short cut: open a new tab by clicking '+' on the bar (Mozilla Firefox) --> copy and paste the URL (obtained in the above said way, copied and saved already in a Word file for use at each time!) and get the old version!
While blogging, by default a picture is uploaded at the top in the Post Editor (of Blogger). To bring down the picture below the post you shall have to select it and drag it down below the text. But if you then want to change its position there, by dragging to the other positions (e.g. right or the left from the central position) it will go back and refuse to shift! To change its position here you shall have to try this: before uploading this picture, select the 'None' radio button. After uploading and bringing down the picture below the text, simply select the picture by a single click. Then click on the Align Left, Align Center or the Align Right icons found on the menu bar of the Post Editor as you desire. Now the picture would have shifted automatically to the desired position!
In blog posting, bloggers experience certain hurdles in preparing the posts as desired. In Blogger (with old Post Editor), if you want to have a gap between the blog post's title and the first content photo, it will be hard to get it. Here is a way to get it: if the photo is at the centre position hold it with the Pointer and drag it diagonally down either to the left or the right side, to just the width of the photo and release the hold. Now the photo will occupy down a line's space! So, do not drag the photo vertically down, frantically: follow the tips that have been mentioned here.
Bloggers, when you have a long list of other blogs to follow, then you will wish naturally to remove some of the them - to 'Unfollow' from Following. Here is the way to Unfollow:
From Dashboard of your Blogger account go to --> Reading List --> click on MANAGE tab --> Manage Blogs I'm Following --> click on Settings (near the blog's name) --> sign in your Google accounts --> Stop following this site --> click on Stop Following.
In Blogger blogs 'Followers' widget is used to display the bloggers who have added themselves to view that blog and to follow it as they wish. If the author of the blog doesn't want a follower to be in the Follower's widget and wants to block him/her, he/she may find it difficult to do that. Here is the procedure for that:
Go to Dashboard ----> Click on the number of Bloggers shown as following ----> On the list of Followers click on the photo of the follower to be removed ----> below his name click on 'Block this user' ----> Click on Block.
Bloggers, if you want to upload an image in Post Editor of Blogger for publishing it in a blog post, you shall upload that first and then proceed to type the text below it. But after typing the text first, if you want to upload the image below it, that image will be uploaded only above it! To bring the image below you shall click on the image, hold, drag it down and release the hold there. Here you cannot shift also the position of the image to the other places from the uploaded position (the left, center or the right)! You cannot insert images between already typed lines too! Yet you can insert images in these places in another way. Just copy the image from your computer file, place the Insertion Point at the needed place of insertion in the Post Editor and paste. But by default the image will be positioned to the left. To move it to the center or to the right, select it by left clicking on it and then just click once on Center-Align tool icon or the Right-Align tool icon found on the Post Editor Toolbar. You shall now see the image positioned and inserted in the desired place!
