Showing posts with label Profile. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Profile. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Switch your Blogger profile with Google+ profile

Today Google announced that your Blogger profile will be replace with your Google+ profile.

But for everyone who wants to switch your Blogger profile with Google+ profile, this option is available for Blogger in Draft's users, and will be accessible from www.blogger.com in the coming weeks.

If you have a Google+ account and would like to replace your Blogger profile with your Google+ profile, log in to draft.blogger.com and click “Get started” on the promotion message, pictured below, or click here to get started right away.


If you don’t have a Google+ account, you can create one at plus.google.com, and then head back to draft.blogger.com and look for the promotion message.

And if you change your mind, you can always revert to your Blogger profile. However, all the changes that you made to your Google+ profile won’t transfer over to your Blogger profile.
Linking your blogs to your Google+ profile is a way to maintain one identity across the web, and you’ll have one less profile to manage and update. On your Google+ profile, you can link to your other online content in addition to blogs, which makes it easier for others to discover what you’ve produced on the web.
Keep in mind that this switch is completely optional - it’s perfectly okay to continue using your Blogger profile on your Blogger blogs. This option is only for those who feel comfortable associating their Google+ profile with their blogs.

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Thursday, June 17, 2010

How to link authors' names to profiles on your own/team blog

If you have several people posting to a blog, you might want to set it up so that each person's name at the end of their posts links to their profile. Comments currently work this way automatically, but we don't yet have this feature for regular posts. Here's a way to get around that and make it work.

First, what you'll have to do is get the profile addresses for each person who will be posting to the blog. You'll notice that each one looks something like this: http://www.blogger.com/profile/XXXXXXX where "XXXXXXX" is a particular ID number. Make a note of that number for each person.

Replace "First Member" with the name that appears on the first member's posts, and replace "XXXXXXX" with the ID number corresponding to that person's profile. Repeat for the second member and so on, adding as many more lines as you need.

Now, look at the section of your template between the <Blogger> tags, where the posts themselves are displayed. There you should be able to find the <$BlogItemAuthorNickname$> or <data:post.author/> tag, depending on what kind of template you have. This prints out each persons display name. Replace that tag with the following:
Next, add the following code to your template, between the HTML <head> tags:
<script type="text/javascript">

var team = new Array();
team["First Member"]="XXXXXXX";
team["Second Member"]="YYYYYYY";
team["Third Member"]="ZZZZZZZ";

function makeprofilelink (authorname) {
var pid = team[authorname];
document.write("<a href=\"http://www.blogger.com/profile/"
+ pid + "\">" + authorname + "</a>");
}

</script>
(for classic templates)
<script type="text/javascript"> makeprofilelink("<$BlogItemAuthorNickname$>"); </script>

(for layouts)
<script type="text/javascript"> makeprofilelink("<data:post.author/>"); </script>

When you're all done, preview it to make sure it works, then save the changes and republish. The result will be something like this at the end of each post, with the appropriate profile link for the name:
... blah blah blah and that's the end of my post.
# posted by Free Blogpot Templates at 12:09 AM.
Notes:

  • You will need to update the list of members and their ID numbers anytime you add new people, or any time they change their display names.
  • Each member will need to have a unique display name, so they will be linked to the correct profile.

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Thursday, April 1, 2010

How to move a Blogger blog between accounts

The short answer is that you can do this by making the blog in question a team blog, with two members, then removing the original team member.

In detail, the process goes like this:
  1. Sign in to Blogger with Account 1, which we'll assume is the account containing the blog. Go to the Settings | Permissions tab.

  2. Click the Add Authors button and send an invitation to the owner of Account 2, the account to which you'd like to move the blog.
  3. Wait for the owner of Account 2 to accept the invitation. If you're sharing a computer, you'll need to sign out of Account 1 first, or each use a different browser.
  4. Once Account 2 has joined the blog, Account 1 can log in again and go back to the Settings | Permissions tab.
  5. Click the grand admin privileges link next to Account 2.

  6. Click the remove link next to Account 1.
Notes:
  • You'll still see any posts made on the blog by Account 1 with Account 1's display name. Account 2 can delete and repost these posts if they'd like to change the display name.
  • Account 1 cannot be removed until Account 2 has admin rights, since every blog must have at least one admin member at all times.
  • Photos uploaded with Account 1 will break if that account is deleted. If you want your old photos to display after adding Account 2, you'll have to leave Account 1 active.

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Monday, March 8, 2010

How to create a team blog

Team blogs are quite useful when small groups of people wish to contribute to a single blog. Basically, one person initially creates the blog, then adds other people to it as members.

Team members can either be administrators or not. Administrators can edit all posts (not just their own), add and remove team members (and grant admin access), and modify the blog's settings and template. Non-admins can only create and edit their own posts.

Here's how to add members to your blog:

First, go to Settings | Permissions:


Then click Add Authors:
Next, type the email addresses of the people you're inviting to the blog, separating each address with a comma. They'll receive an email with a confirmation link soon. Note that they must have Google Accounts, and if they don't already, they'll be prompted to create one.
When you're ready to send the invitations, click Invite.

To remove a team member, go to the Settings | Permissions tab and click the "remove" link of person you want to remove:

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Saturday, February 20, 2010

How to change your Display Name that appears at the end of each post

To change your Display Name, click the Edit Profile link on your Dashboard page:


Scroll down to the Identity section and change the Display Name:


Once you've changed your Display Name, click the Save Profile button at the bottom of the page.

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