Updates and Bug Fixes for June 26th

Today’s Blogger release is a big one for Blogger in Draft. Let’s lead off with the quick stuff:Google Gadget integration continues to improve, with better editing of gadget preferences.The new look for the Dashboard has seen a handful of tweaks, including a new button style that we’re trying out and, by popular demand, the “show all blogs” toggle is now sticky.The subscribe page element has been published to WWW.We’ve added a “Make Blogger in Draft...

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New Feature: New Post Editor

Today we’re releasing the first iteration of a completely new version of the Blogger post editor. This editor is more stable, compatible, predictable, and will help us bring more functionality to posts on Blogger over the coming months and years.Out of the gate you’ll notice two areas where the new editor improves significantly over Blogger’s current editor: images and raw HTML.One important quick note before we get into those, however: Autosave...

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New Feature: Import and Export

Today’s release brings another long-desired feature to Blogger: Import and Export of blogs. Now you can export all of your posts and comments into a single, Atom-formatted XML file for easy backup. You can then import the posts back into Blogger, either into an existing blog or into a new one.To export your blog, log in to http://draft.blogger.com/ and go to the Settings > Basic page. You’ll see the Blog Tools links at the top of the page for...

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New Feature: Embedded Comment Form

One of the most common complaints about Blogger’s comment form is that it’s on a separate page from the post, styled in a way that doesn’t match the blog. Our new embedded comment form addresses that by putting the comment form where your readers expect it: at the bottom of the post.To turn on the embedded comment form, log in to http://draft.blogger.com/ and go to Settings > Comments for your blog. You’ll see that the “Show comments in a...

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Webmaster Tools for Blogger

Ever wonder why your blog shows up where it does in the Google search rankings? With our new Webmaster Tools integration that information is just a click or two away.Webmaster Tools is a Google service that provides you with detailed information about your website’s visibility to Google’s search engine. You can see how often Google’s web crawlers visit your site, find out who links to your site, what searches are used to find your site, and even...

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New Feature: Star Ratings

With our new Star Ratings feature, your readers can easily rate your posts — or the things you post about — from one star to five stars with a single click, right from the post footer.Think of Star Ratings as a mini-poll for each of your posts. If you blog about fashion, food, crafts, quotes, or art we think this will be particularly useful to you.To enable Star Ratings, log it to http://draft.blogger.com/ and go to your Layouts page. From there,...

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New Feature: Posting Gadget for iGoogle

Today we’re launching a draft version of the Blogger Posting Gadget for iGoogle. With this gadget, you can write, save, and publish posts to any of your Blogger blogs directly from iGoogle.Interested? Try it now: Make sure you’re signed in with the same Google account you use on Blogger in order to start posting.Currently, the gadget supports the following:Editing the HTML of title, body and labelsA drop-down menu to select from multiple blogs (if...

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New Feature: New Dashboard

Our old dashboard was getting a little cramped, so we reorganized things and gave everything a fresh, new look. You can see this now by logging in to Blogger in draft.The new dashboard contains all of the same information that the old one did, but rearranged to emphasize the most important content and changes (and with a little more room for future goodness).By default, only some of your blogs are shown in the dashboard, although there’s a link you...

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Blogger in Draft Bug Fixes for June 6th

Today we have a couple of new features (more on those later in the day) and some bug fixes. We’ve also published Blog List, so it’s now available to everyone on the main Blogger site.Here are the highlights:The Google Gadget page element configuration has been greatly improved. We’ve fixed a number of cosmetic and functionality issues in this area. Try it out with the new unified Gadget and Page Element directory.Adding feed URLs to a Blog List directly now works reliably for all supported feed types.Adding a blog with no detected feed to a Blog...

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