Thursday, February 29, 2024

Making sense of the PageList widget

Drawing of an impossible geometric figure

If you are having trouble setting up the PageList widget (also called just Pages) on your blog, you are not alone.

Here's help.

Friday, February 16, 2024

Hosting Audio on Drive

You can upload images to Blogger, and video too (though you might be better off using YouTube).

Realistic painting of a dog with head cocked at the mouth of an old-fashioned victrola
francis barraud

But there is no provision in Blogger for hosting audio.

You can still host audio files at Drive, though it recently got harder to do. I've got a solution that formats a valid embed from Drive as a basic audio player:

Saturday, February 10, 2024

Fixing Drive hosting for 2024

If you used Live Writer or other third-party app to publish blog posts, you do not need me to tell you that the images in your posts have disappeared.

A box of bandaids
franck injapan

That may be the worst consequence of a recent restriction at Google Drive, but anyone who used Drive to embed anything on any web page probably needs to adapt to the new reality.

Here are some options for doing that.

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

The perils of third-party tools

harsh penalties for those who stray from the map

old map of the ancient world
GARBIS MINASIAN / CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

A change at Google Drive has bolluxed images inserted into Blogger using tools like Live Writer.

The images no longer display on Blogger. Indeed, the change affected pretty much any use of Drive to host media for any websites. Check your embeds.

A (somewhat) similar problem afflicted the users of an app called BlogTouch last year.