Blogger quick takes

More small stuff that you might like to know

Google has a help page documenting all the Blogger settings, and it's really well done.

Filter blog posts in complex ways (like "all posts labeled 'bread' (but excluding the word 'rye') plus all labeled 'cheese'").

How: Blogger boolean superpowers.

If you have a question or problem for the Blogger help community, be as clear and specific as possible, and include a link to your blog.

Google doesn't provide support, these are volunteers! Be nice.

Here's how to get helped. 

Control where the title of a blog post breaks.

Most HTML will be stripped out of the Title field, but you can write the HTML entity for the nonbreaking space   (in place of regular spaces) between the words you want to keep together.

The line break <br /> also works, but is an inferior solution. (A line break can look great on one device and be awkward on others.)

The preview of your blog theme on the Theme page is not "live." It is not connected to your personal theme.

Rather, it's a static jpg of what the theme looks like unmodified.

If you modify it in any way, the "preview" will be replaced by the words "Theme preview is currently unavailable."

It feels kind of cheap, but it is not a bug and Google probably won't fix it.

Put hyperlinks in comments using HTML.

The form is <a href="[url.com]">[anchor text]</a>. For example, a link to this blog, from the anchor text "this blog," would be formed as

<a href="too-clever-by-half.blogspot.com">this blog</a>

All Blogger accounts are Google accounts. Yes, even that blog you started in 1999 with a lycos email sign in.

Anything involving your account rather than your blog is in account settings, not Blogger settings.

These include recovery email and phone, which you should keep up to date or you'll be sorry.

See also editing quick takes.