Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Four ways to flip your blog posts

Update: Parts of this report are obsolete. Parts still work, but not with the latest blog themes from Google. It's complicated.

Online stuff changes from time to time, and for this topic a revision would be impractical.

Read more about archived posts, if you like.

One of the most-sought missing features from Blogger is the little button you click to show your posts in chronological order, oldest first.

Where Blogger fears to tread, however, clever hackers (one of them too clever by half) have rushed in with template modifications and other tricks.

As of this writing there are four different hacks to show your blog's content first to last instead of last to first, each method with its own advantages and disadvantages. Here's a quick survey.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Using those new dynamic views—selectively

If you are an early adopter you may already have switched your blog to one of the shiny new dynamic templates.

But maybe you are cautious (like me), your face pressed wistfully against the glass, eyeing the sleek futuristic designs but aware of some drawbacks (and uncertain of others).

Sigh no more! You can link directly to dynamic views of your blog without changing your template.