Old wiring

photo: yung chang

Increasingly over the past two years, bloggers in the help community say they can't

• sign in from their blog—from the public "front end" of the blog at blogspot.com, connecting to the back end at blogger.com
• leave comments on blogs—even their own!—from their Google accounts
• find the quick-edit tools
• managing comments on their blogs, or delete comments they made on other blogs

These problems (often) have the same cause: Blogger's outdated dependence on tracking cookies.

Modern image manager debuts

Google stashes the images you upload into your blog in the Album Archive, their online home that is separate from Google Photos.

Now, Google has written a new back end for those images, available today at www.blogger.com/mediamanager.

New blog—and account

photo: aaron burden

Are you new in town? Welcome!

In this guide for newcomers, the ➧ symbol indicates my personal recommendations for success.

A blog is a...database?

Image: geralt

Not only is a blog a kind of database, but a defining characteristic of a blog is having database superpowers.

Namely, the ability to filter posts in different ways.

Super Tech Fun Pak

A COLLECTION OF CODE-BASED HACKS

I avoid giving advice, or solutions, that involve code.

Yet here are some code-based tricks that I use.

Paragraph vs Normal spacing

Google gave us a perplexing, nay, maddening issue about the spaces between paragraphs when it introduced the latest iteration of Blogger in 2020.

Blogger provides a drop-down menu of paragraph styles that are mostly self explanatory, eg Heading, Subheading, and so forth.

But there are two choices for regular body text, Paragraph and Normal.

What are these for, and what should you use?

Undelete deleted posts

HALLELUJAH

New this past month: Undelete. For posts and pages.

I do not apologize for feeling giddy about this.