Dynamic Templates Lack A Dashboard Link Inwards The Header Bar

Yesterday, nosotros saw a few reports inward Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, mentioning the lack of a link, inward the dynamic views header bar, to our dashboards.

I'm using dynamic views as well as right away can't access my dashboard!

It appears that the Blogger logo / Attribution ("Powered past times Blogger" caption), which formerly linked to our dashboards, is non there, whatever more. This deficiency appears universal - the links no longer look on all dissimilar dynamic views, on header bars amongst the views listed adjacent or inward the pulldown list, or on blogs where dynamic views are default, or optional.

Having reported this occupation to Blogger Support, nosotros were informed that they are planning an update, coming really soon, that volition furnish links inward the header bar like to the correct side of the non dynamic template navbar. We will, presumably, bring links to "Design", "New Post", as well as such. Until then, the previous links bring been removed from the header bar.

For the fourth dimension being, y'all may access your dashboard but using the link to Blogger.

access the non dynamic alias of whatever blog, for instance

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/?v=0

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(Update 2011/11/16): We meet now, diverse blogs amongst dynamic views, showing tiny Pencil ("New post") as well as Home ("Dashboard") icons, when the weblog possessor is properly signed in. You, non existence an possessor of this blog, volition withal meet nothing, inward my dynamic sentiment demonstration of this blog.

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Dynamic Templates Lack A Login Link Inwards The Header Bar

Last week, afterwards approximately complaints were heard from weblog owners who were using the dynamic templates on their blogs, Blogger added "Dashboard" too "New Post" links inwards the header bar. These novel links are accessible when the weblog possessor is logged in, equally a weblog administrator.

Unfortunately, their improvement did non get got into concern human relationship the require to login. Blog owners, non logged in, volition notwithstanding come across no links.

If non logged in, y'all may access your dashboard merely using the link to Blogger.

access the non dynamic alias of whatever blog, for instance

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/?v=0

and y'all may thence live on the "Login" link inwards the navbar.

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Google Friend Connect Accessory To Hold Upwards Provided Past Times Blogger

This week, Google announced the destination to its website based community edifice accessory, Google Friend Connect, for non Blogger based websites.

We're retiring the service for all non-Blogger sites on March 1, 2012.

The statement notes its replacement amongst Google+.

We encourage affected sites to attain a Google+ page too house a Google+ badge on their site too hence they tin convey their community of followers to Google+ too utilization novel features similar Circles too Hangouts to maintain inward touch.

Blogger spider web log owners tin larn out on to utilization the Followers gadget, tin utilization Google+, or tin construct their communities using both features.

Blogger spider web log owners were of late offered several suggestions, to integrate Google+ into their blogs.

• The Google+ badge, placed on the blog, directs your readers to your Google+ profile.
• You tin supervene upon your Blogger profile amongst your Google+ profile.
• Replacement of your Blogger profile amongst your Google+ profile enables you lot to publish your spider web log updates to your Google+ followers.

With Google retiring Friend Connect, this allows Blogger to attain got over its functionality. Blogger spider web log owners, who similar the thought of letting their Followers display their icons on the faces of our blogs, too thought our spider web log updates inward the Blogger Reading List / Google Reader displays, tin larn out on to utilization the Followers accessory.

By removing Google Friend Connect from the Followers accessory, Blogger is hoping that the code supporting the Followers gadget tin live on simplified, too volition larn to a greater extent than stable. This volition hopefully resolve many of the of late reported outages, both inward the spider web log confront display, too inward our dashboard too Reading Lists.

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Please Blogger, Restore My Deleted Blog!! #2

In 2009, Blogger Support became weary from treatment also many work reports from weblog owners who had made such a unproblematic mistake.

I striking the incorrect key, in addition to deleted my blog! Help Me!!

They started archiving deleted blogs, in addition to gave us a sorcerer to un delete a newly deleted blog, from the archive. Unfortunately, that might to un delete a weblog has two major limitations.

1. A deleted weblog tin move un deleted inside xc days.
2. A deleted weblog tin move un deleted past times a weblog administrator.

Some weblog owners honour out the relevance of the minute limitation the difficult mode - afterwards they delete their blog, in addition to then honour out that they cause got two (or more) Blogger accounts.

From a cursory examination, 2 like symptoms

I striking the incorrect key, in addition to deleted my blog!

and

I can't honour my weblog on the dashboard!

would number from the same problem, in addition to cause got the same solution - un delete the deleted blog. However, the minute symptom has an as mutual diagnosis

You are logged inward amongst the incorrect Blogger account.

This diagnosis is to a greater extent than oft than non derived from ownership analysis, of the missing blog.

Unfortunately, ownership tin exclusively move determined when the weblog inward enquiry is online. And that is the work seen, also many times, when people endeavor to un delete their deleted blog.

If you lot merely deleted your blog, at that topographic point are 2 diagnostic procedures, unremarkably used inward Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, that you'll non honour useful.

• Account recovery. The Blogger "Forgot your username or password?" sorcerer is useless, for a deleted blog.
• Ownership analysis. You cannot decide the owner, without examining alive weblog content.

If you lot merely deleted your blog, in addition to you lot don't cause got access to an owning Blogger account, you're going to cause got to animate beingness forcefulness your mode dorsum to control. For each possible e-mail address (GMail or non GMail), you lot must

1. Clear cache, cookies, in addition to sessions (yes, all 3!), in addition to restart the browser.
2. Use the Blogger "Forgot your username or password?" wizard, in addition to plug inward an e-mail address.
3. See if you lot instruct e-mail in addition to tin recover access to a Blogger account.
4. See if you lot tin un delete anything from the dashboard, for that account.

This is going to move a frustrating practise - but it's in all probability your exclusively solution possible. There are exclusively 2 ways to avoid this exercise.

• Don't delete your blog, past times mistake.
• Always maintain access to your blog.

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Where's The Dashboard?

We run across this confusion, a brace times a week, inwards Blogger Help Forum: How Do I?.

Where is the dashboard?

In the Classic Blogger GUI, the display which contained the "Blog List" (at the top), in addition to the "Reading List" (at the bottom) was labeled "Dashboard". Many people every bit good called the "Settings" / "Template" screens for the diverse blogs, linked from the Blog List, the dashboard.

The New Blogger GUI has no page alongside the label - in addition to no links "To The Dashboard". The Navbar (another unlabeled feature) has ii links - "Design" in addition to "New Post" - which atomic number 82 to dissimilar dashboard sections, when yous are appropriately logged inwards to Blogger. And, the "B" logo at the far left of the navbar will, similarly, accept yous to the Blog List / Reading List.

The Blogger Dashboard is exactly the "Blog List" / "Reading List", in addition to all attached utilities which you, the owner, administrator, or author, access, every bit yous manage the blog.

• Change diverse spider web log settings.
• Control the post service template.
• Publish in addition to edit posts.
• Edit the spider web log template.
• Add, delete, in addition to reposition accessory gadgets.

The Dashboard - in addition to "My blogs" / "Reading List".

The Dashboard - in addition to Overview.

The Dashboard - in addition to the Posts index.

The Dashboard - in addition to Settings.



There are in addition to hence many Dashboard pages - in addition to the top dog pages lead keep sub pages. And every dissimilar page in addition to sub page is mentioned, inwards this blog.

Comments Posted, Using Google / Google+ Profiles, Live On Noreply E-Mail Addresses

Recently, we've noted a pose out of complaints almost Blogger commenting, inward Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken

.My comments all role a "noreply" e-mail address, instead of my actual e-mail address. How create I convey people e-mail their replies to my comments?

These are people who convey updated their Blogger accounts, to role a Google or Google+ profile. Neither Google or Google+ profiles supply the pick to

Show my e-mail address

It appears that, alongside the deployment of the novel Google / Google+ profiles to Blogger, Google is making soundless i to a greater extent than endeavour to convince us to network using Google+ - too choke on our e-mail addresses to ourselves.

If y'all moderate or monitor comments to your blog, y'all may convey lately noticed many non anonymous comments labeled alongside a mutual e-mail address of "noreply-comment@blogger.com", instead of personal e-mail addresses.

People who intentionally wishing to expose their e-mail addresses inward their comments volition need to revert their Blogger accounts to the Blogger profile. If this is a trouble concern for you, larn to your dashboard. From the carte attached to the gear ikon at the acme right, choose "Revert to Blogger profile", too you'll convey your Blogger profile back. Then edit your profile, choose "Show my e-mail address" nether Privacy, too you'll survive dorsum to sharing your e-mail addresses inward your comments.

It's probable that the noreply e-mail addresses are existence offered to choke on many bloggers from, inadvertently, exposing their e-mail addresses to e-mail mining techniques. In remembering the long agone discovered "nice blog" spam, it's possible that "nice blog" spam was originally developed to aid the spammers assemble e-mail addresses, using very innovative technique.

All that an imaginative spammer has to create is to post a "nice blog" comment, choose "Email follow-up comments to me" - too then scout every bit the Inbox fills upwards alongside follow upwards comments from bloggers, willingly giving upwards their e-mail addresses to every stranger besides selecting "Email follow-up comments to me", inward that comment thread.

The people willingly providing their e-mail addresses, to the footing inward general, are perfect targets for hackers subsequently trying to brute forcefulness access to the Blogger accounts, using their e-mail addresses.

If y'all determine to revert to a Blogger Profile for posting comments - or fifty-fifty if y'all don't - see using Google 2-Step Verification, to protect your Blogger / Google account from hacking.

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Attempting To Take Away Former Ftp Published Blogs From Blogger Concern Human Relationship Corrupts The Bloglist

Recently, we've seen a few reports from unhappy weblog owners who used to pose out blogs using FTP, who tried to delete the FTP published blogs from their Blogger account, as well as instantly can't access their dashboard bloglist - or fifty-fifty login to their Blogger accounts successfully.

I late tried to delete an one-time FTP published weblog from our account, I hitting the "delete blog" button, as well as I larn mistake code bX-dm6o9e. When I evidence to access my dashboard, I larn the same error.

The selection to pose out a Blogger weblog to remote, not Google hosted, server infinite - known equally FTP Publishing - ended several years ago. Now, people attempting to build clean upward their weblog list, as well as trying to take old, FTP published blogs volition honour a problem. We complaint that the dashboard utilities, inwards general, tin all the same move accessed, using the navbar links - or the quick edit ship service links.

We convey a the Classic or the New GUI - or both?

Does your Blogger draw of piece of job organisation human relationship purpose a Blogger, Google, or Google+ profile?

What's your Blogger Profile URL?

Is the weblog beingness deleted inwards existence, on the remote server?

Does the weblog beingness deleted convey electrical current as well as valid DNS addresses, pointing to the contents?

What's the URL of the weblog beingness deleted?

What browsers convey y'all tried using? Do y'all larn the bX-dm6o9e mistake from each browser?

If y'all are experiencing the bX-dm6o9e code, delight answer the questions equally best y'all can, to encourage Blogger Engineering to position as well as right the campaign of the problem.

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Blog Owners Study Mysterious Blogs Added To Their Dashboard Weblog List

We are seeing a pocket-size but steadily increasing flow of work reports, inwards Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, from Blogger weblog owners, wondering where these mysterious blogs, beingness added to their dashboard "My blogs" list, are coming from.

Is anyone else experiencing random blogs beingness added to their dashboard? I login, together with I notice that many blogs require maintain been made - together with they're all amongst names that are exactly a jumble of letters together with numbers, but no posts. All of them atomic number 82 to the same weblog though.

Here's a random listing of the names of seven such blogs, which were of late created inwards the "blogspot.com" refer space. If y'all wishing to bear witness these blogs, together with these require maintain non yet been deleted yesteryear the Blogger anti spam processes, I strongly advise that y'all use a proxy server, or like isolation technique. Never bear witness whatsoever hacking / spam ready on component, unprotected.

yyxfkfgpiy
x24xd2wtu1
4o4fq0rqp9
26djmc3xyh
m9s5tdor2l
h62wo5uthr
bsojvu43gk

Some weblog owners are seeing dozens of these mysterious blogs. Adding to the confusion, a duet owners require maintain fifty-fifty idea that their legitimate blogs require maintain been replaced. Fortunately, what is happening is that the legitimate blogs are nonetheless at that topographic point - exactly non visible inwards the noise.

When queried for details, many owners study having received, together with accepted, an offering involving FaceBook, together with the proffer to "Change your colors". Apparently, if logged inwards to both Blogger / Google, together with FaceBook, this mysterious "FaceBook app" volition merely setup quantities of BlogSpot hosted spam blogs, frighteningly reminiscent of blogs created every bit role of the long agone observed Russian Business Network spam weblog farms.

Each weblog created has the same initial content - a display, amongst the offering to "Change your FaceBook colors". The link to require maintain the offering thence leads to a non Google website, which installs the malware, which creates the mysterious spam blogs, inwards majority quantity. For your examination, hither is 1 event spam weblog - which may or may non currently endure online, using a proxy server link.

http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://yyxfkfgpiy.blogspot.com/

We don't yet know what, if anything, is beingness installed on the reckoner used inwards the blogs creation - nor how malicious the virus is, when installed on one's ain computer. Our advice is uncomplicated - avoid becoming a victim. If y'all are receiving invitations for this service, it's possible that your FaceBook friends, supposedly sending the invitations, are the electrical flow victims. If y'all ignore the offer, y'all should endure safe.

It's possible, too, that this ready on is enabled yesteryear the massive attacks of seemingly purposeless spam comments, beingness published on diverse blogs.

If y'all are concerned nigh this situation, y'all powerfulness desire to check all of your blogs for unfamiliar code - thence review your electrical flow protection, together with fifty-fifty consider using Google 2-step verification.

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Improved Spam Review / Undelete Selection Inwards Blogger

One of the to a greater extent than positive changes inwards the "New GUI" involves an improved mightiness to find, as well as correct, deleted as well as locked blogs.

Finding deleted / locked blogs, nether before versions of Blogger, was e'er a challenge - both for the individual looking for the necessary display - as well as for the people trying to learn how to uncovering the necessary dashboard display.

In the electrical flow Blogger dashboard, 1 merely logs inwards as well as looks for the "Deleted Blogs" push - right beneath "New Blog", when the spider web log possessor has whatever self deleted blogs, or whatever blogs deleted or locked yesteryear the Blogger abusive blogs classifier. Clicking on "Deleted Blogs", nosotros come across a listing of blogs - alongside either an "Un delete" push (for self deleted blogs), or a "Restore" push (for spam classifier locked / deleted blogs).

Neither the "Restore" or "Undelete" push attain an immediate or universal lawsuit - both are nonetheless discipline to previous limitations.

• The "Restore" push leads to the "Review Request" dialogue - as well as to the actual spam review - nonetheless limited to blogs which tin live on un deleted.

It is merely straightaway far easier to uncovering the spam review / un delete mechanism, than it was under the previous GUI.

If your spider web log was deleted yesteryear yous - or deleted yesteryear Blogger for hosting malware, yous should live on able to striking "Restore", as well as the spider web log volition live on restored piece yous wait. If the spider web log was deleted or locked yesteryear Blogger for suspected spam hosting, yous volition likely receive got to solve a CAPTCHA - as well as hence hold off 24 to 48 hours, piece the spider web log is reviewed. In the long run, yous volition likely uncovering this extra receive volition live on worth your time.

In to a greater extent than or less cases, the owning Blogger draw of piece of job organization human relationship may live on locked, next odd draw of piece of job organization human relationship action - generally, brute strength password guessing attempts, inwards an receive to hijack command of the draw of piece of job organization human relationship as well as whatever owned blogs. After submitting an draw of piece of job organization human relationship restore asking as well as / or changing the draw of piece of job organization human relationship password, the blogs owned yesteryear the draw of piece of job organization human relationship volition live on restored - by as well as large 24 to 48 hours later the draw of piece of job organization human relationship is restored. This is a normal, as well as unavoidable, lawsuit of Google, protecting your draw of piece of job organization human relationship as well as blogs from hacking activity.

Just live on aware that not all blogs volition live on listed yesteryear the "Deleted Blogs" wizard.

Please live on aware of the limitations of the restore process. This procedure serves spider web log owners who receive got been spuriously classified. If yous asking restore - as well as Blogger confirms that yous are a spammer - yous volition live on best advised to start over, or to find a dissimilar platform for publishing.

If yous attain root over, yous should live on rattling careful, as well as avoid making the same mistakes - lest yous live on discipline to more strict punishment. Spammers merely are not welcome, inwards Blogger / Google - sorry.

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The Dashboard Spam Review / Undelete Pick Tin Last Used To Your Advantage

Recently, Blogger added an improvement inwards the spam review process, to assistance shorten the review cycle. Blogs that are deleted or locked, equally suspected spam hosts, are right away listed on the dashboard, behind a "Deleted blogs" / "Locked blogs" push or link. Each blog, deleted or locked past times Blogger, tin laissez passer on the axe endure submitted for an automated review, past times using the "Restore" push adjacent to whatever weblog listed.

Not all weblog owners come across the practise goodness of the novel option. Some owners intend this represents silent 1 to a greater extent than hurdle, inwards the endless protocol.

I merely desire my weblog restored! Can y'all delight merely forrad my review request, without the carmine tape?

Many weblog owners don't realize the benefits of the dashboard based spam review asking wizard.

• Many blogs, amongst review requested past times the dashboard link, tin laissez passer on the axe endure reviewed, in addition to restored, inside 24 to 48 hours.
• Blogs restored afterwards dashboard based review asking don't necessitate the possessor to pass fourth dimension inwards the forum, requesting review.
• Blogs restored afterwards dashboard review asking don't necessitate Blogger Support to pass fourth dimension conducting a manual review.

Use of the expedited, dashboard based review procedure shortens the review procedure for everybody.

There's a exceptional practise goodness during weekends. Blogs submitted for manual review volition sit down inwards the review queue for at to the lowest degree 48 hours, when no Blogger staff are available to comport the review. And that 48 hours starts alone afterwards the review asking is forwarded to the Blogger Support review queue.

Many forum based review requests are recognised, past times the helpers, hours - or days - afterwards the forum topic is posted past times the weblog owner. The forum based latency causes frustration for everybody, in addition to farther delays the forwarding of the request. And unopen to review requests tin laissez passer on the axe endure processed only when primal Blogger Support personnel are available.

Use of the dashboard based spam review asking makes it easier for everybody. And this helps the forums run smoother - in addition to to a greater extent than weblog owners in addition to readers tin laissez passer on the axe endure helped.

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How Y'all Login To Next Affects Your Mightiness To Follow Blogs

Following, instantly using Google Friend Connect, gives its members several options - together with to a greater extent than or less of these options may displace confusion. You tin dismiss login to Following using whatever account, hosted on whatever of six dissimilar Internet services, together with Follow using whatever of seven dissimilar Following profiles. Many Blogger weblog owners together with guests assume that whatever weblog that they Follow volition hold out visible inwards their Reading List - together with this won't e'er hold out the case.

The Reading List, which is where many Blogger Followers read the contents of the blogs that they Follow, is purpose of our dashboard (or weblog list, using the New Blogger GUI 2011). The dashboard / weblog listing is purpose of our Blogger accounts.

If you lot login to Following using a Blogger / Google account, whatever weblog that you lot Follow volition hold out automatically added to your Blogger Reading List. If you lot login using whatever of the five other Following describe of piece of occupation concern human relationship hosts, this won't hold out the case.

Similar to the confusion from lack of mightiness to Block Followers, the lack of mightiness to e'er honour each weblog existence Followed volition hold out an occasional rootage of confusion.

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How Y'all Login To Next Affects Your Mightiness To Follow Blogs

Following, instantly using Google Friend Connect, gives its members several options - together with to a greater extent than or less of these options may displace confusion. You tin dismiss login to Following using whatever account, hosted on whatever of six dissimilar Internet services, together with Follow using whatever of seven dissimilar Following profiles. Many Blogger weblog owners together with guests assume that whatever weblog that they Follow volition hold out visible inwards their Reading List - together with this won't e'er hold out the case.

The Reading List, which is where many Blogger Followers read the contents of the blogs that they Follow, is purpose of our dashboard (or weblog list, using the New Blogger GUI 2011). The dashboard / weblog listing is purpose of our Blogger accounts.

If you lot login to Following using a Blogger / Google account, whatever weblog that you lot Follow volition hold out automatically added to your Blogger Reading List. If you lot login using whatever of the five other Following describe of piece of occupation concern human relationship hosts, this won't hold out the case.

Similar to the confusion from lack of mightiness to Block Followers, the lack of mightiness to e'er honour each weblog existence Followed volition hold out an occasional rootage of confusion.

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Blogs Listed Twice, Inwards The Blogger Profile Or Dashboard

Occasionally, an oddity inwards our Blogger profiles volition movement confusion - as well as offering exactly about weblog owners a chance to brand a bad mistake. For exactly about unknown reason, exactly about Blogger blogs may locomote listed twice, inwards the dashboard or profile Blog List.

If you lot are 1 of these weblog owners, seeing the same weblog listed twice inwards your dashboard or profile, mean value earlier you lot act! Check the URL behind the weblog title, for each entry - you'll meet an identical URL behind both.

Seeing the duplication as well as entirely wanting a build clean list, exactly about weblog owners volition innocently delete 1 of the duplicates.

I don't request 2 of the same!

Since the 2 entries reverberate the same blog, the possessor volition meet the listing become from 2 of the same, to cipher of the same.

Now where is my blog?

Hopefully, the mysterious weblog volition directly locomote acquaint inwards the deleted blogs list, as well as tin locomote un deleted.

1. Possibly, the weblog can locomote un deleted - as well as volition arrive at 1 entry inwards the weblog list. This is the best result.
2. Less desirably, the weblog tin locomote undeleted, as well as volition exactly restore both duplicate entries to the list. This is the realistic result.
3. Undesirably, the weblog won't seem inwards the deleted listing - or can't locomote un deleted, fifty-fifty if inwards the list. This is the undesired (but nonetheless possible) result.

Do you lot experience lucky, punk?

Recalling a few previous reports of this oddity, I've observed that the work spans GUIs - both the Classic GUI, as well as directly the New (2011) GUI. I'm pretty for sure that the work involves the Blogger profile - the Classic dashboard (dark blueish / orange) is where I kickoff observed this, though I won't enjoin that the work is non every bit good acquaint for weblog owners using the novel Google profile (orange / white).

It's your blog, as well as your profile - then you lot are entitled to meet what happens. I recommend exactly accepting the incertitude - you lot won't locomote charged whatever to a greater extent than for having 2 blogs, than for having one.

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