Some Blogger Fixes

With the new year, I have been helping some bloggers with some issues.  I have some suggestions below. I also have commented in the Blogger community assisting people with Blogger problems. You can find some of my posts under Linda P.

BLOGGER ACCOUNT RECOVERY

A few bloggers couldn't get into their blogs.  It is usually because they forgot which email account they used. I usually help them along the way through account recovery. 

Forgot the email address you use to sign in

1. Follow the steps to find your username. You’ll need to know:
   • A phone number or the recovery email address for the account
   • The full name on your account
2. Follow the instructions to confirm it’s your account.
3. You’ll see a list of usernames that match your account.

COMMENTING

Blogger has several comment systems. One of them requires the use of third party cookies.  If they are blocked, then you will not be able to comment.

Some bloggers had a problem commenting with the Safari browser, I recommended they try Chrome. That seemed to work for many. Others that have issues commenting need to make sure third party website tracking is enabled.

 Check Safari/Preferences/Privacy and make sure Block all cookies isn't checked. If that doesn't work, try unchecking Prevent cross-site tracking.

UPLOADING PHOTOS

Blogger also changed the way photos are named after uploading. Images imported into Blogger from the post editor are now being stored at urls that begin at a new blogger subdomain at the googleusercontent.com domain.  For instance I used this photo below in a post.

                    

I uploaded the same photo  at different times,  meaning the first I  used and it gave me a totally different link. See the difference in the links?  Blogger took away my image name and gave it a long string of letters.  It makes it difficult to see each photo's name. Bloggers that use third party templates, (meaning not a Blogger template) sometimes have issues with their photos, first thumbnail or images in slider being blurry.

I for one had an issue with my thumbnails being blurry. I found a fix for my template to fix it.  If you have an issue with blurry photos, just get in touch with me.

PROBLEM EDITING GADGETS

Another blogger contacted me telling me she could not edit her gadgets on her layout page. She was using a Macbook and Safari.  I told her to download Chrome and it worked for her. Blogger also took away the little wrench for editing.

COMMENT NOTIFICATION EMAILS

The Easy Fix - Go into Settings on your dashboard.

Click Email.

Your email address should be in the box. Remove it! Click Save settings. Now  Add it back in, click enter and click Save settings.

You will then receive an email from Noreply+subscribe@blogger.com
It will be addressed to your blog email.

Below is what you will see:

You have been invited to receive email notifications at lifeandlinda@gmail.com when new comments on blog Life and Linda have been published.
Please click the Subscribe link below to accept this invitation. If you don’t want these email notifications, you can just ignore this message, or click the Decline link below.

If you want to stop receiving comment email notifications for this blog, you can click the opt-out link here or in any of the notification emails.

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Decline

After you click Subscribe, you will get a message that looks like this:

You are all set to receive email notification from comments.
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ADDING PHOTOS SIDE BY SIDE

Your have to create a table. in the HTML part of your post.

<table>
  <tr>
    <td><img border="0" width="100px" height="100px" src="IMAGE 1 LINK HERE" /></td>
    <td><img border="0" width="100px" height="100px" src="IMAGE 2 LINK HERE" /></td>
    </tr>
</table>

Grab your two photo urls.  Add the first one where it says IMAGE 1 LINK HERE.

Add the second image where it says IMAGE 2 LINK HERE.

You can change the size by changing the height and width where it says 100px.

To center them, add <center> before the table and add </center> after the bottom table. These hearts were changed to 300px  height and width.

A Valentines Tablescape Blog Hop is coming up on January 25th.

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About Linda @ Life and Linda

Hello, welcome to LifeandLinda. I am from Northern California. I enjoy blogging, Designing Blogs, Decorating, cooking, entertaining, gardening and clogging. I hope you enjoy your visit.