New Blogger Gui 2011: It's Optional, Correct Now

Less than two months ago, Blogger announced their novel together with shiny GUI, in Draft Blogger. This week, they made it an option, in Production Blogger.

As y'all may accept heard, things are starting to await a picayune dissimilar across many Google products—and today, Blogger is the side past times side production to larn a makeover.

Right now, it's slow to try the novel GUI - together with if y'all don't similar it, it's likewise slow to furnish to the one-time GUI. Like all Blogger upgrades, don't conception on it beingness an option, for really long.

Try the New GUI. If y'all create upwards one's heed that y'all don't similar it, allow Blogger know. Every New GUI display has a gear ikon inwards the upper correct corner, or a straight link to "Send feedback" inwards the lower correct corner. The "Send feedback" magician makes it pretty slow to pose whatever features, on whatever specific display, that y'all mean value tin last improved.

As alongside every Blogger feature, nobody volition last good served alongside Blogger having to keep redundant versions of their product, for an extended total of time. The Classic GUI may last your preferred version of Blogger - only it's non going to last around, forever.

Try the New GUI - now, together with allow Blogger know what y'all don't similar - now. Give Blogger feedback, then they tin ameliorate it, spell it's optional. You may regret your immobility, later.

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A Template For Virginia Usa #3

For over a year, I've been suggesting that the fourth dimension for using Classic (HTML Based) templates has expire a affair of the past. This month, nosotros are hearing suggestions that nosotros are genuinely nearing the goal of back upwardly for the Classic templates. As many spider web log owners constitute out nearly the goal to FTP Publishing, yous produce non produce goodness past times waiting until the in conclusion minute.

While there's nevertheless time, it's to your produce goodness to try out the novel templates, notice what yous produce non similar nearly them - together with what yous absolutely cannot alive with, together with objectively study your issues inwards Blogger Help Forum: Layouts & Templates.

If yous convey issues, your issues are shared past times other spider web log owners similar you, together with all concerned tin study their issues, you'll convey a amend run a jeopardy of having your concerns heard past times Blogger. In effect, yous tin assistance to effort the in conclusion migration, from HTML to XML based templates - if yous acquire involved piece at that spot is nevertheless fourth dimension to produce that.

If yous expect until the in conclusion minute, when Blogger gives yous the "last call" notice

FTP publishing is no longer available equally of May 1, 2010
You currently convey blogs that are published using FTP. You must migrate your blogs to a novel custom domain URL or a blogspot URL. To acquire more, encounter our dedicated spider web log together with assistance documentation.

it may live likewise late, when yous break out details that absolutely don't work, for you.

Move ahead, instantly - or be stuck, later

I estimate it's fourth dimension to deed to WordPress, equally Blogger isn't listening!!

A Blogger Account, For Virginia, Usa

A few months ago, a few Blogger weblog owners were given important news which may non bring pleased them.

For a release of technical together with operational reasons, we’ve decided to in conclusion terminate our back upward for migrating legacy accounts together with blogs later December 5, 2011.

If you lot are i of the weblog owners who needs to read this, you lot volition bespeak to know the advert together with password for your (Legacy) Blogger account.

You volition bespeak to execute the Blogger concern human relationship recovery wizard may function for you lot right away - merely later the terminate of adjacent month, it volition likely not.

If necessary, deed ahead, this month. Next calendar month volition hold out also late.

Blog Owners Amongst Former Browsers May Desire To Avoid Trying The Novel Gui

In general, it's skillful to endure adventurous - exactly non always. Sometimes, listening to our friends, to endure adventurous, gets us into trouble. We're beingness urged to "Try the updated Blogger interface", past times our "friends" - aka Blogger - inwards our Classic GUI dashboard. Blog owners who are nonetheless using an older browser, that's admittedly unsupported past times Blogger, may discovery themselves alongside a problem, when they "Try the updated Blogger interface".

Clicking on the link, to "Try the updated Blogger interface", you'll discovery yourself viewing a rather monolithic as well as ominous warning.

Your browser is no longer supported past times Blogger. Some parts of Blogger volition non piece of employment as well as you lot may sense problems.
If you lot are having problems, endeavor Google Chrome. | Dismiss

Now, you're at a betoken of no return. If your browser is current, you lot tin e'er accept a expect at the New GUI, therefore click "Old Blogger interface", behind the gear picture - as well as you'll endure none the worse. If your browser is out of date, when you lot give-up the ghost to The New GUI, you lot may non come across the gear picture (or anything else).

If you lot cannot operate the "Old Blogger interface" bill of fare item, you lot tin operate the Blogger Classic GUI Recovery URL.

www.blogger.com/opt-in-new-ui.g?useNewUi=false

One day, though, you lot volition need to deed forward.

• Install Chrome, or a dissimilar browser at electrical flow version, therefore switch back.
• Upgrade the electrical flow browser.

You stimulate got to deed forward, eventually. Don't wait, forever.

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Better Top Away Into The Novel Blogger Gui Before Long - Together With Country Blogger What Problems You Lot Find

The New Blogger GUI (2011) was pushed out, during the yesteryear week, to a issue of spider web log owners - together with the complaints are showing upwards inward Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken. Some are polite.

Please, Blogger - allow us the choice of staying amongst the quondam format.

and approximately less polite

Are y'all listening Google? Your novel interface SUCKS!

Only i matter is obvious - many people, all of a precipitous finding themselves using the New GUI, produce non similar the New GUI.

Unfortunately, at that topographic point are existent reasons why the New GUI has been developed - together with those reasons are non going to croak away. The New GUI is hither - to stay. Right now, comprehensive together with objective criticism is needed, to convince Blogger to croak far ameliorate - earlier they withdraw the Classic GUI altogether.

Both major together with tike features, developed of late yesteryear other groups inward Blogger, together with yesteryear other divisions of Google, are integrated into the New GUI.

• Blogger Dynamic Templates, together with the supporting separation of the Layout together with Template card options.
• Google+.
• Better Post Editor.
• Better back upwards for non BlogSpot (aka "custom domain") publishing.
• Blogs accessed nether Country Code TLD Aliases.

We've seen evidence of all of these efforts, recently.

As long every bit Blogger has to maintain 2 GUI versions, they volition bring to motion slower to maintain both versions working. Staff has to hold out employed to both maintain both versions, together with maintain the diverse features inward both versions working together. As long every bit at that topographic point are 2 versions of the GUI, approximately staff, that should hold out improving the New GUI, is going to hold out busy supporting the Classic GUI.

One of the causes, of approximately New GUI problems, involves people switching dorsum together with forth betwixt the 2 GUIs, to ameliorate purpose the features that they prefer. If y'all bring observed problems amongst your spider web log recently

• Custom Domain Publishing.
• Post Editor paragraphing.
• Post Editor advance postal service scheduling.

you are perhaps observing a work caused yesteryear conflicting code inward the 2 GUI versions. Until everybody is using the same GUI version, the conflicting code volition croak on to drive problems - together with approximately Blogger Support staff volition bring to pass fourth dimension identifying together with patching the problems.

Yet, at that topographic point are features that are acquaint inward the Classic GUI, that need to hold out added to the New GUI, earlier substantial numbers of people tin laissez passer on notice foremost using the New GUI. In guild to position those features, plenty people bring to foremost using the New GUI - together with allow Blogger know what features are missing, that involve to hold out provided, immediately.

We bring a work rollup discussion, currently hosted inward Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, where nosotros am actively soliciting comments from people who bring tried the New Blogger GUI. Please maintain your comments brief, polite, together with on topic.

Just bear witness to brand your comments before it's also late - when The New Blogger Interface becomes The Blogger Interface.

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Mass Confusion Caused Past Times Legacy Concern Human Relationship Migration

In 2012, Blogger started the side yesteryear side stage of the Legacy Account migration process.

For several days, nosotros saw majority confusion, inwards Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken.

Why am I getting this email? Is it a scam?

and

I can't migrate my account!

and

I migrated my account, too my blogs disappeared from my dashboard!!

The people targeted inwards the email were registered owners of legacy (pre 2006) Blogger accounts, created earlier Blogger started using Google (email address based) accounts.

The confused owners are like to the ones amongst whom nosotros accept been dealing for several months, unable to find access to their long dormant Blogger / Google accounts.

Many practice non recollect creating accounts, others don't recollect the login details, which are essential to spider web log control.

Both the spider web log owners, too Blogger, contributed to the confusion.

The confusion was caused jointly yesteryear Blogger, too yesteryear the spider web log owners. And, it was not a surprise, to Blogger Support.

The confusion started amongst the history of the migration.

• In 2007, Blogger offered the chance to transfer command of owned blogs, to a novel Google based account, when mortal attempted to login to their legacy Blogger account.
• People never logging inwards to Blogger afterwards 2007 never got the offering to migrate.
• Some people elected to non migrate - but setup novel Google accounts too manually transferred command of their blogs - too left some legacy accounts inactive too without whatever owned blogs.
• Last year, Blogger warned people that the terminate of life, of the legacy accounts, was inevitable.

  For a number of technical too operational reasons, we’ve decided to finally terminate our back upward for migrating legacy accounts too blogs afterwards December 5th, 2011. So if y'all accept a Blogger concern human relationship too haven’t logged inwards since 2007, y'all volition lose access to the concern human relationship too associated content permanently unless y'all update to the Google Account organization earlier December 5th.

• Last week, Blogger took the side yesteryear side step.

  You are receiving this message because your e-mail address is associated amongst an unmigrated legacy Blogger account. As nosotros announced inwards Apr of lastly year, legacy accounts volition no longer live accessible afterwards May 30th, 2012 unless they are updated to the Google Account system. Any spider web log content associated amongst this concern human relationship volition also live unmodifiable afterwards that date.

• The emails went to registered owners of all unmigrated legacy accounts, whether or non whatever concern human relationship owned a blog.

The confusion was magnified yesteryear issues caused yesteryear the diverse spider web log owners.

• Blogger insists on making it slow to practice a Blogger account, oftentimes resulting inwards non intentional creation of multiple Blogger accounts. Some people, for instance, may accept created Blogger accounts to post comments, on other blogs.
• Some people receiving the e-mail had stopped using Blogger, long ago.
• Other people had continued using Blogger, but amongst newly created Blogger accounts - too only ignored the unused legacy accounts.
• Many people, overlooking the fact that the migration had started inwards 2007, became unhappy that they were given exclusively 1 calendar month to conclude what they had been given, to appointment - v years.
• Too many people, non having used their legacy accounts since 2006, were unable to recollect the concern human relationship advert or password, too were forced to purpose the "Forgot your password?" wizard.
• Some people, anxiously awaiting the arrival of the password reset email, constitute that this critical e-mail is subject to e-mail spam filters - too now, to email spoofing filters (and the ii are non the same).
• Some people managing to consummate the migration - but amongst their blogs owned yesteryear a dissever (newer) Google based Blogger concern human relationship - watched inwards horror equally their blogs appeared to disappear from their dashboards. The migration created a novel account, leaving their of import blogs owned yesteryear their previously created Blogger / Google account, which became inaccessible to them.

The confusion continued, amongst multiple scenarios.

The history, addition the issues, resulted inwards several scenarios - each resulting inwards an unhappy concern human relationship owner.

• Owners amongst a migrated previously legacy Blogger concern human relationship (created inwards 2007), too 1 or to a greater extent than un migrated legacy Blogger accounts. These people accept 1 or to a greater extent than legacy Blogger accounts (that they don't know about), addition an already migrated previously legacy concern human relationship (that can't live migrated, again).
• Owners amongst a Google based Blogger concern human relationship (created inwards 2007), too 1 or to a greater extent than un migrated legacy Blogger accounts. These people accept 1 or to a greater extent than legacy Blogger accounts (that they don't know about), addition a Google based Blogger concern human relationship (that can't live migrated).
• Owners amongst a unmarried un migrated legacy Blogger account, unable to migrate because of forgotten concern human relationship advert or password. These people accept a legacy Blogger concern human relationship (that tin live migrated, if they know the concern human relationship name, too the password).
• Owners amongst a single, newly migrated legacy Blogger concern human relationship (created this week, amongst no blogs), too a previously migrated or created Google concern human relationship (created inwards 2007, amongst the owned blogs). These people are straightaway logged inwards to Blogger amongst a novel Blogger account, too cannot access their blogs, owned yesteryear their previous Blogger account.

The unhappy recipients of the email, next the instructions provided to them, posted their complaints inwards Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken.

If y'all accept questions, delight see our Help Forum at http://www.google.com/appserve/mkt/OKddNnCN05400K too practice a message amongst [legacy Account] inwards the dependent land line.

Confusion was magnified yesteryear forum complaints, too inability to help.

The confusion spread, equally the forums became saturated yesteryear the complaints. Not all complaints used the "[legacy Account]" tag, suggested inwards the instructions. This motivated diverse forum helpers to purpose fuzzy processing techniques inwards sorting diverse forum complaints, too some non legacy issues were treated equally legacy issues. Other legacy issues were overlooked, inwards the book of posts.

Blogger Support, becoming aware of the numbers of complaints, created a legacy Account FAQ, too started answering questions, posted inwards the FAQ. And the frustration became expressed inwards various FAQ responses.

This is clearly non working out good for Blogger. In the truthful concern world, heads whorl when fails are too thence epic.

This spider web log possessor is overlooking the history too the issues, too making no acknowledgement of his contribution to the problem.

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(Update 2012/04/30 10:00): Blogger Support has straightaway provided a form, for any legacy concern human relationship possessor to use, to asking details.

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Mass Confusion Caused By Legacy Account Migration


Challenges Created By Legacy Account Migration

Confusion Betwixt The Novel Blogger Gui, As Well As Dynamic Templates

Recently, we're seeing only about possible confusion betwixt the blueprint of our blogs, in addition to the blueprint of the menus in addition to utilities used to keep in addition to pose out our blogs.

I similar my blog, equally it is! Please, Blogger, don't brand me alter my blog!

Not everybody, posting inwards Blogger Help Forum: How Do I?, understands the changes that Blogger in addition to Google is making.

The New Blogger Interface is what we're existence constantly urged to switch to.

The former Blogger interface volition hold upwards removed inwards the coming months. Upgrade Now.

This is the honor at in ane lawsuit appearing on our Classic dashboards. The New GUI volition (when it's working properly) offering us, the weblog owners, meliorate ways to keep in addition to pose out our blogs.

Separate from the novel interface, in addition to offered past times both the Classic in addition to New GUIs, is the dynamic templates. The dynamic templates offering us, in addition to our readers, novel in addition to exciting ways to stance our blogs.

The New GUI will, eventually, driblet dead the alone GUI. Even equally many of us abhor the New GUI, if nosotros sympathize organisation design, nosotros know that Blogger cannot continue, in addition to permanently keep both the Classic in addition to the New GUIs. Until The New Blogger GUI becomes The Blogger GUI, everybody needs to cheque out The New GUI, in addition to let Blogger know what needs fixing.

The electrical flow (non dynamic) templates, in addition to the dynamic stance templates, on the other hand, are alternate ways to savour whatever unlike Blogger blog. This blog, correct now, is published to a non dynamic template. If yous want to stance this weblog using a dynamic view, though, only click on "DYNAMIC" inwards the carte du jour bar (or here). The dynamic views are optional - in addition to should rest so, for only about time.

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The Novel Gui (2011) Is Hither - Together With Is Non Going Away

Last month, Blogger took the adjacent step inward making us role the New Blogger GUI, too started migrating our accounts, aggressively. This modify did non delight a lot of people.

Why won't Google acknowledge the novel interface is an speak failure, too fleck it?

This is an instance of misguided optimism. Blogger is non only going to fleck it.

The people such every bit inward the latter example, who are protesting the coming of the New Blogger Interface, are making 3 mistakes.

1. They are wasting their ain fourth dimension too energy, protesting.
2. They are non telling people, specifically, what problems they see.
3. They are encouraging other people to waste matter fourth dimension too energy.

The New Blogger Interface is non going to drib dead away - nor is it an speak failure.

No previously controversial Blogger features, seen inward the past, direct maintain been scrapped.

• Auto pagination.
• Automated describe of piece of occupation concern human relationship too weblog recovery.
• Spam mitigation.

Each of those features direct maintain received far to a greater extent than criticism than The New GUI - fifty-fifty considering the problems discovered, inward The New GUI, to date. And, each of those features are nonetheless inward house - too are tuned, occasionally.

Better larn used to it, folks. The New Blogger Interface will, eventually, drib dead The Blogger Interface - with, or without, your approval. If you lot desire to scope something, enjoin everybody what, specifically, you lot consider to hold upwards a problem. Just enjoin everybody what problems you lot see, piece at that spot is nonetheless fourth dimension to larn something done - earlier nosotros come across a Gear icon, alongside no bill of fare entry for "Old Blogger interface", on everybody's dashboard.

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(Update 9/19): This week, the goal exactly got here.

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Dynamic Templates, Equally Role Of Blogger History

Recently, we've seen people who desire to utilization a dynamic template on their weblog - merely are unwilling to position upward amongst the limitations.

Why can't Google brand its Dynamic View Template slow to customize?

and

Why can't I select who I desire reading my blog, together with permit my readers utilization a dynamic view?

and

Why should I let on my weblog to a "Dynamic Template" - which appears to live on Google beak for "It doesn't operate at all."?

Not every Blogger weblog possessor realises why the dynamic templates operate every bit they do, yet offering every bit few options.

To empathise why dynamic templates operate - or don't operate - every bit they do, 1 should empathise the history of Blogger blogs, together with utilization of templates.

A Template For Virginia Usa, #4

As the frustrations most the CC TLD aliases proceed to endure reported inwards Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, as well as roughly of the details are discovered as well as resolved, nosotros are seeing suggestions of other, to a greater extent than subtle problems.

Some spider web log owners claim that their page rank / search engine reputation has taken a olfactory organ dive, because their readership is spread out over many unlike countries. Apparently, canonical resolution yesteryear the search engines does non work, for all "blogspot.com" published blogs. Older blogs, including those alongside Classic (HTML based) templates - as well as mayhap roughly older Layout templates - seem to lack canonical resolution.

The canonical resolution process, yesteryear the search engines, requires the canonical tag inwards the template header - as well as the search engines can't aggregate the CC alias URLs generated yesteryear the many unlike set down code references.

Any blog, indexed yesteryear the search engines, separately, nether the unlike CC TLD aliases, is going to conduct maintain a lower overall search reputation. The unlike references, nether the many aliases, volition endure indexed - only every bit each volition endure to a greater extent than diverse, each reference volition look lower inwards SERP lists. This volition number inwards less search engine related traffic - as well as afterward nevertheless lower SERP positioning.

If your spider web log depends upon search engine generated traffic for publicity, as well as you lot conduct maintain an older blog, you lot are going to desire to check the template header.

<link href='http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/' rel='canonical'/>

If you lot produce non notice a like tag inwards the template header for your blog, you lot require to upgrade your template. Your readers volition give thank you lot you, too.

A Template For Virginia Usa, #5

For a few years, I bring been making jokes close roughly Blogger weblog owners, together with their (perceived) take to maintain a Classic (HTML based) template, on their blogs. Some weblog owners maintain to inquire naive questions inwards Blogger Help Forum: How Do I?.

How produce I allow my readers sentiment 'Older Posts'?

or

How produce I add together a Pages menu?

or

How produce I role Following, amongst the "Follow" link lately removed from the navbar?

Recently, inwards musing close roughly of the recent Blogger policy changes, such every bit the cease to the Blogger FTP Publishing option, a formalised browser support policy, together with the cease of pre-Google (aka "legacy") Blogger accounts, I realised that ane of the side past times side changes, logically, would last a phasing out of back upwards for HTML based templates. I intend that this thought is in all likelihood long over due.

With the lately offered Layout, thus Designer, together with right away Dynamic templates, at that topographic point are thus many features offered past times Blogger that y'all are simply patently missing out on, if y'all insist on using an HTML based template.

Don't instruct me incorrect - I'm non suggesting that y'all take to upgrade your template, this calendar month - or fifty-fifty this year. Even so, I believe that ane day, maybe sooner than y'all would think, the twenty-four hours volition come, together with you'll run into the latest Buzz article.

Time to upgrade your template!

My suspicion is that the few remaining owners of blogs, however using an HTML template, are smaller inwards publish than those who objected to the forced installation of automobile pagination, or those forced to migrate from FTP Publishing, or those who are currently objecting to the New Blogger GUI. And of those iii changes, maybe solely the implementation of automobile pagination was simpler to execute.

Those of us who bring migrated a weblog from Classic (HTML) to Layout (XML) - or maybe Designer (XML) - know how elementary most Classic template upgrades are. Start from the Blogger dashboard Template wizard.

• Click on the "Upgrade template" button, if necessary.
• Select an XML template.
• Use the "Page Elements" magician (now the "Layout" carte du jour entry), together with commencement adding accessories.
• Occasionally, role the "View Classic Template" option, to recollect roughly overlooked HTML code.

The GUI menus together with wizards, too, volition brand a Classic to Designer upgrade almost transparent. Under the Classic Blogger GUI, at that topographic point was a completely unlike develop of links, menus, together with wizards, for a Classic, every bit opposed to a Designer, template.

Under the New Blogger GUI, the top dog divergence betwixt a Classic together with Designer template would last the absence of the Layout carte du jour entry, for a Classic template. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Classic template solely needs the "Template" carte du jour entry, together with the "Edit HTML" push clit inwards "Template" - simply a build clean subset of the existing carte du jour structure.

Is this jumping the gun? If so, my apologies, inwards advance.

Time to upgrade your template!

But, is over v years non long enough, to wait?

Legacy Accounts Are No Longer Supported

Today, I was advising the latest legacy Blogger trouble organisation human relationship holdout.

I got the electronic mail that says

You are receiving this message because your electronic mail address is associated amongst an unmigrated legacy Blogger account. As nosotros announced inwards Apr of in conclusion year, legacy accounts volition no longer endure accessible later on May 30th, 2012 unless they are updated to the Google Account system. Any spider web log content associated amongst this trouble organisation human relationship volition likewise endure unmodifiable later on that date.

Upon reporting this latest back upward postulate to Blogger, I was advised of the distressing reality, past times a Blogger Engineer.

Legacy back upward has been deprecated.

We direct maintain seen this coming, for a long fourth dimension - in addition to it has finally arrived.

It's possible that the Legacy Claim form may attention yous - though the queue for activity tin endure a week, or more. Here, equally always, yous direct maintain a much amend gamble of success if yous know both the Username in addition to Password.

Alternately, if yous tin setup a novel Blogger account, elbow grease recovering the blog into the novel account. Alternately, checkout the Known Blogger Issues article, for some possible solutions.

Other than that, allow Blogger future chance for trouble organisation human relationship hacking.

What this advice agency is uncomplicated - if your blog(s) are owned past times a legacy Blogger account, that account, in addition to blog(s), is immediately frozen, if the Claim Form is non useful.

• You can't convert your account.
• You can't update your blog(s).

You direct maintain been warned, repeatedly. Now, Blogger has moved on - in addition to yous can't endure helped.

• They won't delete your blog.
• They won't accept the URL away from you.
• You can't delete or update the spider web log - or re operate the URL.

If yous wishing to let on using Blogger, start a novel blog, nether a novel Blogger account. If you're hither because yous direct maintain non published your spider web log since 2006, the changes to Blogger direct maintain been in addition to thence extensive that you'll endure starting over, anyway. Start a novel spider web log - yous tin e'er include the onetime blog, inwards the novel one, equally static content.

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(Update 2015/05): It appears that the deadline has passed, for unopen to remaining unmigrated accounts.

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The Novel Gui Is Here

Several people are reporting seeing the New Blogger GUI inward their dashboard - fifty-fifty when they did non intentionally upgrade. Possibly, this was forced yesteryear the necessary Custom Domain Authentication Feature, which is straightaway operational - on the New GUI only.

I am expecting my Blogger trouble concern human relationship to change, soon. Let's meet if I larn a "Your spider web log post published successfully!" display. So far, I am accept the changes.

If you lot wishing to brand your feelings known, delight post inward the latest Problem Rollup: V4 I create non similar the New Blogger Interface because ...

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Template Designer Upgrades Necessitate Supporting Updates To The Private Spider Web Log Templates

This week, we're seeing a pocket-size inundation of occupation reports inwards Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken nearly problems alongside the Template Designer.

Every fourth dimension I modify something, I accept to refresh the page inwards gild for it to demo up. It won't "Save" when I endeavour to salvage the layout changes. It simply says "Saving..." at the altitude of the page as well as fades away, but doesn't genuinely salvage whatever changes.

Many problems involve changes made to the template, using the Designer, which aren't beingness saved - or are broken when saved. Most of the people reporting these problems accept made changes to the template, previously - or then are then experienced at making changes, they can't believe that their latest changes could always accept problems.

Interestingly, this history of changes is non a coincidence - as well as it's probable that or then of the changes helps to crusade these problems.

Take a hold off at the template code inwards your blog, or then time. You'll discovery a lot of code which doesn't hold off similar CSS, HTML, or XML. Some of it is code which supports the diverse spider web log features that are adjusted or configured using the Template Designer.

Many template features involve 2 sets of code.

1. The Template Designer wizard, business office of the Blogger dashboard, is mutual code used past times all spider web log owners.
2. The blog template, post service template, as well as / or widget template, is business office of the private blogs. Some template code does zip but back upwards the Template Designer - as well as permit y'all configure your spider web log layout,

Every fourth dimension Blogger Engineering adds or updates template features, they accept to brand changes to both sets of code.

Blogger Engineering does non edit each private blog, afterwards they upgrade the Template Designer. They brand changes to the principal template code - as well as their changes replicate into the private spider web log templates. These changes replicate much to a greater extent than consistently, when the private templates accept non been changed.

The to a greater extent than custom a template is, alongside changes applied by the spider web log owner, or maybe in a 3rd political party template, the less probable it is to properly update, to back upwards each succeeding Template Designer update.

Any fourth dimension Blogger Engineering updates the Template Designer, to add together a novel feature, or maybe to support a novel browser version, their updates may involve changes which are non properly applied to all blogs - as well as the Template Designer stops working, inwards or then blogs.

When the Template Designer stops working, the park recommendation is to refresh the post service or widget template - or maybe to upgrade the spider web log template - as well as things get-go rolling again. And the spider web log possessor goes dorsum to tweaking the template, until something breaks again.

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Legacy Blogger Accounts Are No Longer Supported

Last year, Blogger made an announcement that displeased a few Blogger weblog owners.

For a lay out of technical in addition to operational reasons, we’ve decided to in conclusion cease our back upwards for migrating legacy accounts in addition to blogs subsequently Dec 5, 2011.

The initial proclamation was made inward April, 2011, amongst an activity date, initially scheduled, good earlier Dec five - in addition to the activity engagement was delayed, several times. The quotation that you lot run across was edited past times Blogger Support, inward their article, repeatedly.

On Dec 6, 2011, back upwards for Legacy Blogger accounts in conclusion ended. Even so, nosotros all the same run across occasional signs of oblivious describe of piece of work organisation human relationship holders, inward Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken.

My describe of piece of work organisation human relationship doesn't direct maintain a Google address because it it is eight years former - how create I recover access to my account?

Apparently, non everybody who needed to create so, bothered to read the announcement.

Like the long announced FTP Publishing migration, Legacy accounts back upwards has ended. There's no known alternative, for Legacy accounts - nor is the condition of the accounts themselves - or the blogs, or of the URLs, owned past times the non supported Blogger accounts - known.

What does the higher upwards proclamation state? Simply, if

1. You direct maintain a legacy account.
2. You never bothered to migrate your legacy account.
3. You travail migrating your legacy describe of piece of work organisation human relationship inward the future.
4. And you lot direct maintain a work amongst the migration.
5. Then, you lot are on your own.

Blogger is looking to the hereafter - in addition to needs to pass their fourth dimension to a greater extent than productively. They merely don't direct maintain fourth dimension to diagnose problems amongst private accounts that can't live on migrated, subsequently many months of warning, close this change, was provided.

What does the higher upwards proclamation non state?

1. You can't role your legacy Blogger account, inward the future.
2. You can't migrate your legacy Blogger account, to a electrical flow Google account.
3. Your legacy Blogger describe of piece of work organisation human relationship volition live on deleted.
4. Your blogs, owned past times a legacy Blogger account, volition live on deleted.
5. The URLs, used past times blogs owned past times a legacy Blogger account, volition live on taken from you.
6. Any URL, used past times a weblog owned past times a legacy Blogger account, volition live on made available to you.

None of the higher upwards were stated, inward the announcement. The proclamation states alone that migration back upwards has ended. Whether whatever of the higher upwards volition change, inward the future, can't live on predicted. We'll promise that some alert volition live on given, earlier whatever of the higher upwards change. Just don't bet whatever coin that alert volition live on given.

All that nosotros tin say, correct now, is

You were warned.

Sorry. All things come upwards to an end. You direct maintain to support Blogger, to aspect them to back upwards you.

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