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"Dynamic" means the list revises itself automatically whenever you add or subtract a label from a post.
Blogger hints, hacks, and attitude
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"Dynamic" means the list revises itself automatically whenever you add or subtract a label from a post.
New here?
Maybe you know exactly where you are going with your new blog. If so, don't let me slow you down.
For my part, when I was getting started, I was uncertain about the right way to do things.
I'm writing this for newcomers, though old hands may find a few tidbits of interest too.
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At the end of the setup process for a new blog, you'll find yourself at your blog's dashboard: the private back end of the blog where you can write, edit, format, and run your blog.
To get your blog started, you can click the New Post button at top right on your dashboard.
It's not a bad idea to try this out. You can always edit or delete a practice post later.
But one dashboard section that deserves your early attention is the Settings page, full of controls and options.
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Attentive reader Peggy K wishes for a way to make such complex blog searches as "all my posts about Twitter that are NOT about Elon Musk."
(My hypothetical example, not hers.)
Seek no further.
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Blogger is a database that lets you shuffle and filter posts in different ways.
Today we take that to the next level, with logical OR searches on labels A or B (posts with any of the labels).
Today we take that to the next level, with logical AND and OR searches on labels.
That is, making a single page of all posts with (1) labels A and B, or (2) A or B.
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Increasingly over the past two years, bloggers in the help community say they can't
These problems (often) have the same cause: Blogger's outdated dependence on tracking cookies.