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| Photo: Roy Harryman |
Once, all you needed to manage your blog was your user ID (usually an email address) and your password.
Today, this may not be enough.
If you've been away from your blog for a few years, or are signing in from a new device, you will almost certainly be greeted with additional challenges from Google.
The subscribe-by-email feature that had been integrated into Blogger since 2011 may finally be ending, nine months after Google told us it would a year ago.
There were still some instances of subscriber emails going out last week, however.
SOME GOOD NEWS, FOR ONCE
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| Your image gets a name |
Blogger has added filenames to the urls for images that are uploaded into the blog or imported from Google Photos.
This should resolve a number of problems that bloggers have reported about how these images are (and aren't) showing up in blogs.
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| Jef Poskanzer, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons |
A recent back-end change for hosting Blogger images was supposed to be nearly invisible to us bloggers, and not any sort of big deal.
Instead, six months into the transition, there are clear issues that Google has not addressed.
Some may never be fixed.
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Place an image in Blogger and, lately, it is not always clear what will happen.
There have been a lot of issues recently in the help community about images. That's often a sign that the Blogger developers are tinkering.
This week we are seeing evidence of a change in the wiring.
Hello, young bloggers, go back up your blogs.
Like smoking, drinking, and electing leaders who are warming the planet to the boiling point, blogging is about to become an adults-only activity.
That is to say,
After September 1, students designated as under 18 in K-12 Edu domains will lose access to the Blogger service.
USE THE POST EDITOR FOR FORMATTING
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| Former formatting tools |
Inexplicably, Google has rolled out new widget dialogs lacking basic functionality.
These dialogs are the versions you get when you create or edit a widget from the Layout page of the Blogger dashboard.
