Too Clever By Half

In brief

• Use the OR operator | (or "%7C") in the feed url to filter the union of two search terms.
• Follow the feed in a reader or use it to create a dynamic list.

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In brief

• Use the AND operator + in the feed url to filter the intersection of two search terms.
• Follow the feed in a reader or use it to create a dynamic list.

Image: Kismalac (public domain)

A AND B

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The insight that your blog is a database unlocks special blog pages tailored to combine subtopics.

Not just a page showing all the posts you've labeled "bread" (an old trick, and a handy one), but a page combining posts with two labels ("bread" plus "cheese").

Or, a page restricted to posts bearing both labels ("bread" and "cheese"). Or one that excludes (all "bread," except if also "cheese").

Well, you can do the same things with your blog feed.

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Step back and ask yourself, “How can I give my users what they want while getting what I want?”

I found this excellent advice in an unlikely place.

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The PageList sidebar widget, and the older LinkList widget, each creates a list of links.

PageList, which Blogger calls "Pages" on its list of widgets, has one clear advantage.

LinkList won't automatically reformat as a horizontal list in the Responsive blog themes. PageList will.

A tabbed navigational widget is generally a very good thing to provide for your readers.

Some find PageList challenging to set up. The user interface is poor, so I've written a PageList guide.

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

Here's help.

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

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: