Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Super Tech Fun Pak Too

MORE CODE-BASED HACKS

A cartoon light grey computer with a widescreen and opened browsers with green backgrounds with multiple streaming and social media sites opened, and a number of icons like a laughing emoticon, red heart, magnifying glass, light bulb, speech balloon, and a facebook thumbs up like floating on top.

Where some bloggers embrace scripts and theme-code mods, I seek ways to use Blogger's native features to automate and add new things to the page.

After all, Blogger should deliver its functional goodness without requiring us to know about the code behind it all.

Yet here are three useful hacks including some that use code. I didn't invent these, just passing them along.

Friday, October 25, 2024

Spam in bulk? No problem!

Only you can prevent comment pollution.

An industrial trash bin overflowing with garbage
photo: bicanski

Comment spam makes your blog feel unfriendly and neglected.

Here's how to wrangle the garbage—if you get a lot of it.

Thursday, October 17, 2024

Comment spam? Take out the trash

Comments are great. Comment spam is toxic.

The word TRASH is stenciled on the sode of a metal barrel
photo: donald giannatti

Comment spam harms your blog.

Here's how to wrangle the garbage, step by step.

Monday, October 7, 2024

Comment spam on Blogger:
Keep it clean

A hand wearing a purple rubber gloves holds a soapy sponge.
photo: andrej liĊĦakov

Comment spam hurts your blog.

Block and manage it by

  • moderating comments, or requiring commenters to solve a captcha (no need to do both)
  • marking spam, which trains Blogger's spam filter.

Sunday, September 8, 2024

NOT feeds: exclude

In brief

  • Use the NOT operator - (minus sign) in the feed url to exclude a search term.
  • For multiple search terms, use AND NOT (+-).
  • Follow the feed in a reader or use it to create a dynamic list in your blog.
Image: Kismalac (public domain)
B excluding A

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

A feed that combines two things

In brief

  • Use the OR operator | (or "%7C") in the feed url to filter the union of two search terms.
  • Follow the feed in a reader or use it to create a dynamic list.
Two curved shapes join to form a single pointed arrow
image: openclipart-vectors

Thursday, August 22, 2024

A feed of overlaps

In brief

  • Use the AND operator + in the feed url to filter the intersection of two search terms.
  • Follow the feed in a reader or use it to create a dynamic list.
Image: Kismalac (public domain)
A AND B