Blogger missing comment - issue

If you are facing any issue with the comments in your blogger blog, basically your recently published comments are not shown on the posts or the comment count itself is shown wrong, no need to panic; everyone else is facing the same issue and blogger is working on it as per this thread

How to delete a follower from blogger blog

Recently when I was looking at the followers of one of my blog, I found a few of them to be spam and thought of removing them from the followers list.

This is how you can remove or block a follower from blogger:

- Go to your blogger home page . All your blogs will be listed in the page, also the number of followers in right side of each blog.

- Click on the 'followers' link which will show you all the list of followers.

- Identify the follower to block/delete. Click on it. Next to the name, you should see a 'Block this user' button.

List all posts in blogger feed url

Default feed url such as http://all-mixed.blogspot.com/atom.xml or http://all-mixed.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default is not going to list all the posts in your blog.

To do so add the following query string at the end of the above urls

e.g.

http://all-mixed.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=499

will list first 500 blog posts from your blog.

Similarly

http://all-mixed.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=499

Replace "all-mixed" with your blog name above.

How to change robots.txt in blogger

When I started using Google webmaster tools , one day I got to see something like this:

URLs restricted by robots.txt : 24 urls

When I saw the details, then I came to know that most of the restricted urls are nothing but the "labels" I created on my blog. Did a lot of Google and finally I learnt that we cant change the robots.txt file in Blogger (unless we host our blog in our server).

The I looked at my rebots.txt (http://all-mixed.blogspot.com/robots.txt) which looks like this:

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User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search

Sitemap: http://all-mixed.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated
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So,
"Disallow: /search" seems to be fine as it just not going to index the search result pages (labels too), which are kind of duplicate (as individual post url is going to be indexed anyway, if no error)

** In the above default site map, the line
"User-agent: *" means that allow all types of user agents to index your blog content.

If the information I put above seems wrong, please correct me. thanks.

Blank page on blogger main page - blogger tip

Last day when I was posting a new entry on my bash scripting blog , I just got surprised when after publishing the post and navigating to the main page (from View Blog link) saw a blank page. I refreshed and its the same luck. Damn!! what I did.

I was a bit confused as the old posts were still listed on the sidebar, and there when I click on them. But in the main page, it was a blank page.

What I did ?

I just went to customized -> Posting -> Edit Posts tab and then edited the latest post and just did "Publish Post" without changing anything and this made my posts on homepage appear again.

Not sure if this trick helped me to get my main page again, or something happened just by luck. You can give a try ...

Shaded text box for code block in blogger templates

I am using this trick from Geek Pit to create the shaded text boxes to put my codes in my unix bash scripting blog. Thought of sharing here. Its useful.

How to add youtube video to blogger - blogspot

I found this youtube video very useful. If you don't know how to add a youtube video to your blogger post, see the following.