Apr 202007
After months of waiting, Google/Blogger has finally allowed my account to be migrated to “New Blogger”. I’ll have to test out all of these new featues. Since I FTP-publish my blog to my own domain (instead of the far more common practice of using blogspot.com for hosting) some of these new features may be unavailable to me.
Updates:
- Uploading posts from Blogger to my servers seems to be a lot faster now.
- Labels work (see below) but I’ll need to use a 3rd-party script to get a labels list in the sidebar. I’m currently using del.icio.us to do this same thing but it would be better to use Blogger’s label function because it will display all the posts with that label, in their entirely, rather than just showing a list of post titles only.
- I was hoping that uploaded images would be hosted by Google’s Picasa like it does for blogspot Bloggers, but I’ll still need to host my own uploaded images.
- That cool dynamic hierarchical archives list that blogspot Bloggers get to use appears to becompletely unavailable to me. My current Archive list will still work fine but since my Archives list is so long already, it would’ve been nice to be able to collapse previous years, and also to have the number of posts displayed next to each month.
