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MFBQ

Most Frequent Blogger Questions



I don't know more than I know--sometimes I know even less!
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Kick-starting The Blog
1. Refresh (F5) or Ctrl-F5
2. Clear cache (delete temporary Internet files) and cookies in Tools-Internet Options.
3. Add a question mark to the end of your blog's internet address in the address box and see if it will show the latest update. (Can also be done with other people's url's in the address window.)
4. Republish (if in classic Blogger)
5. Reboot
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Friday, May 2, 2008

Future-Dating A Post -- NEW!

Create the illusion of "being there".!
Future Dating of posts is now available from Blogger

Click here to see Blogger's instructions about it!

Now you can leave some posts lined up when you are about to leave on vacation or for a month in jail and they will publilsh, one or more every day, while you're absent.

So many people have inquired about this for the past five years that I suppose a lot of people will now praise the lord and send their checks (as usual) to the nation's poor. I have heard a great many complaints about how it "doesn't work", yet I don't think I've had a single one fail to publish. Admittedly, I am using the "future-publishing" on a more infrequent basis than some people. I doubt I ever use it more than 2 or 3 times a week.

[More below...]



There doesn't appear to be any difficult moves added to the Publishing process. It works the way many of us used to think would just be logical. One could always use the Post Options to change the date to anything you liked, but there was no automatic publishing--you always had to come back and hit the publish "button" on that date.


1. Give a date and time in Post Options for tomorrow, next week, or whenever
2. Then hit Publish,
3. The system will show a sign that says the post will be automatically published on X date at X time.
4. the system will wait until that date and time to publish it.


Couldn't be simpler, unless they screw it up. If they screw it up, let me know.

Future-Dating A Post -- NEW!

Create the illusion of "being there".!
Future Dating of posts is now available from Blogger

Click here to see Blogger's instructions about it!

Now you can leave some posts lined up when you are about to leave on vacation or for a month in jail and they will publilsh, one or more every day, while you're absent.

So many people have inquired about this for the past five years that I suppose a lot of people will now praise the lord and send their checks (as usual) to the nation's poor. I have heard a great many complaints about how it "doesn't work", yet I don't think I've had a single one fail to publish. Admittedly, I am using the "future-publishing" on a more infrequent basis than some people. I doubt I ever use it more than 2 or 3 times a week.

There doesn't appear to be any difficult moves added to the Publishing process. It works the way many of us used to think would just be logical. One could always use the Post Options to change the date to anything you liked, but there was no automatic publishing--you always had to come back and hit the publish "button" on that date.


1. Give a date and time in Post Options for tomorrow, next week, or whenever
2. Then hit Publish,
3. The system will show a sign that says the post will be automatically published on X date at X time.
4. the system will wait until that date and time to publish it.


Couldn't be simpler, unless they screw it up. If they screw it up, let me know.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

TOS Violation Page

Where to go to report the troublemakers, including a screenshot of the report page:



Contact this page and report any of these items at:

Terms of Service Violations.

TOS Violation Page

Where to go to report the troublemakers, including a screenshot of the report page:



Contact this page and report any of these items at:

Terms of Service Violations.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Strikethrough Code

Once in a while someone knows about the strikethrough tag without knowing what its called or how to utilize it, so here is the strikethrough tags:

<strike>TEXT</strike>

I don't see any way to do this in Compose Mode, so you have to switch to the Edit Html Mode in order to do it.

At times people don't know the exact word that's involved in this and may say "cancel" or some other similar word.

Strikethrough Code

Once in a while someone knows about the strikethrough tag without knowing what its called or how to utilize it, so here is the strikethrough tags:

<strike>TEXT</strike>

I don't see any way to do this in Compose Mode, so you have to switch to the Edit Html Mode in order to do it.

At times people don't know the exact word that's involved in this and may say "cancel" or some other similar word.

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Line-Height

Below is not a solution to why line-height may arbitrarily change in your posts, but it is a fix. When that line-height change happens, try the following for the post text:

<div style="line-height: 18px;">TEXT</div>


You may need a different number (of px) to match your own blog post, so see how it adjusts with larger and smaller numbers. .

You could avoid the aggravation of typing it each time by putting the code above in the Settings-Post Template and it would be inserted for you already in each new post—then you can either use, delete, or ignore it.