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1. Comment at 1168438200//Y-m-d2007-01-10 1168438200//H:i06:10 by Aditya

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   Thankyoozy for update!

2. Comment at 1170219960//Y-m-d2007-01-30 1170219960//H:i21:06 by Ariel

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   This is the update I've been looking for! Question, though: What do I need to do to make the del.icio.us tag field show up? I'm getting the trackback field, but no place for tag input. Thanks in advance.

3. Comment at 1170271920//Y-m-d2007-01-31 1170271920//H:i11:32 by Singpolyma

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   @Ariel - the del.icio.us link draws tags from the 'labels' field of the new Blogger no more need for a separate field!

4. Comment at 1170360600//Y-m-d2007-02-01 1170360600//H:i12:10 by Ariel

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   the del.icio.us link draws tags from the 'labels' field

   That's genius. So will clicking on the labels take readers to the del.icio.us pages, as previously?

5. Comment at 1170361380//Y-m-d2007-02-01 1170361380//H:i12:23 by Ariel & Lindsay

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   I should probably clarify a little more. With the previous hack, I liked having the del.icio.us tags appended to the posts, and got a fair bit of traffic from del.icio.us as people launched from one post and then clicked around the index, related tags, etc. Any way that can still be done, in preference to Blogger labels? I have a pretty massive del.icio.us index for my blog which would take a lot of time to bring over.

   Thanks again!

6. Comment at 1170361440//Y-m-d2007-02-01 1170361440//H:i12:24 by Ariel

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   That last comment was me.

7. Comment at 1170366300//Y-m-d2007-02-01 1170366300//H:i13:45 by Singpolyma

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   To make the links point to your del.icio.us account, as previously, change the label-link generating code in your template to this:

   <b:if cond='data:post.labels'>
   <div class='tags'> Tags:
   <ul>
   <b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='tag'>
   <li><a expr:href='"http://del.icio.us/USERNAME/" + data:tag.name' rel='tag'><data:tag.name/></a></li>
   </b:loop>
   </ul>
   </div>
   </b:if>

8. Comment at 1170447720//Y-m-d2007-02-02 1170447720//H:i12:22 by Ariel

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   Great! A tip that may be useful… I've found that by changing the "Tags" or "Labels" text to "Read more:" I get many more pageviews.

9. Comment at 1181410930//Y-m-d2007-06-09 1181410930//H:i12:42 by Daethian

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   Where do I insert this script???

10. Comment at 1181414307//Y-m-d2007-06-09 1181414307//H:i13:38 by Stephen Paul Weber

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    You have to have Greasemonkey installed

11. Comment at 1182034580//Y-m-d2007-06-16 1182034580//H:i17:56 by Brian

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    I've got it installed and the option to enter a trackback URL now appears on my Blogger (new Blogger) post page… but after I publish my posts I'm not seeing the trackbacks displayed in the posts I'm referencing. Is there something I might be doing wrong?

12. Comment at 1182172146//Y-m-d2007-06-18 1182172146//H:i08:09 by Tragy

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    I'm trying to use this script on New Blogger, but I can't have good results for the trackback feature… I can see the textbox where I put the urls to ping, but when I click Publish, nothing happens…

    I write from spain, so my blogger account is using spanish language… I don't know if it's cause of this…

    Any tips to follow?

13. Comment at 1182218003//Y-m-d2007-06-18 1182218003//H:i20:53 by Stephen Paul Weber

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    The ping is supposed to happen on the next page, it should show status. Are you using blogger FTP? I have not tested on the Spanish blogger, not sure if that's it. Does your Javascript console log any errors?

14. Comment at 1182218144//Y-m-d2007-06-18 1182218144//H:i20:55 by Stephen Paul Weber

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    If you put in the proper trackback URL and see the status says success it should be fine…

15. Comment at 1182220902//Y-m-d2007-06-18 1182220902//H:i21:41 by Tragy

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    I was fool… Since I'm not using del.icio.us, I was thinking that I had to click on cancel everytime I post, cause I don't have any name to enter on the diagbox… Now I know that I have to click OK on all diags, and it works fine…

    Yeah, I look like a noob…

    Sorry for bothering you… And nice work with your code, it works 100%

16. Comment at 1182941141//Y-m-d2007-06-27 1182941141//H:i05:45 by Paul

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    Doesn't seem to work for me. I get the new Trackback URL field, but when I click publish, I don't see the status line that it worked, and when I edit the post, the trackback URL is gone (field is empty again).

17. Comment at 1184260158//Y-m-d2007-07-12 1184260158//H:i12:09 by Stephen Paul Weber

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    @Paul — this script has not been tested with Blogger blogs not at blogspot.com. If you give me the contents of the JS error console (Firefox or similar) I may be able to fix it for you. The trackback box does not store the URLs, so that's normal.

18. Comment at 1184381634//Y-m-d2007-07-13 1184381634//H:i21:53 by The Old Vic

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    Hi,
    I wonder if you can help - I am getting the same problem as Paul above. I have installed Greasemonkey and the widget for the new blogger. I get the new window called trackback but nothing happens. I put the address in the window plus /trackback but no trackback takes place as far as I can tell. Any advice would be much appreciated. Vic

19. Comment at 1184686471//Y-m-d2007-07-17 1184686471//H:i10:34 by Stephen Paul Weber

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    @The Old Vic - I have the same thing to say. If you blog is not at *.blogspot.com it may not work because I have no way of testing it in that environment. Send me the JavaScript console contents if you can and maybe I can debug.

20. Comment at 1185325666//Y-m-d2007-07-24 1185325666//H:i20:07 by Tor

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    Hey, thanks. I've been in a cryogenic chamber for six months, and am just now needing to deal with all this.

21. Comment at 1185477015//Y-m-d2007-07-26 1185477015//H:i14:10 by Paul

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    Oh, I'm sorry. How do I just install this to my blogspot blog?

    I am just trying to have trackback to give credit to other blog that I have copied stuff.
    Where would I paste this code in the html template?
    Also I don't have or use delicious…

    thanx
    –Paul

22. Comment at 1185485885//Y-m-d2007-07-26 1185485885//H:i16:38 by Stephen Paul Weber

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    @Paul — this is a greasemonkey script, get greasemonkey

23. Comment at 1186687762//Y-m-d2007-08-09 1186687762//H:i14:29 by JB

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    Ok, this is a really newbie question. I just got into the Trackback concept recently, so since I use the new blogger, I've been looking for something that works with it. I've found this script, so I've installed it (after greasemonkey) and it seems to be OK. When I post (or edit) a new article, the TrackBack field is there. Ok, now the stupid question: what should I put in that box? I've noticed that when I click on the TrackBack blue word, it asks me for my del.icio.us user. I don't know if this is necessary.

    Thanks a lot in advance and sorry for such a newbie question.

24. Comment at 1186700409//Y-m-d2007-08-09 1186700409//H:i18:00 by Bobby Revell

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    Great article! You have answered my question:)

25. Comment at 1186774290//Y-m-d2007-08-10 1186774290//H:i14:31 by Stephen Paul Weber

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    @JB — You put in the trackback URL (linked to from the pot on sites that support it)

26. Comment at 1186774417//Y-m-d2007-08-10 1186774417//H:i14:33 by Stephen Paul Weber

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    The del.icio.us information is ONLY for if you want to tag your posts on del.icio.us — nothing to do with trackback

27. Comment at 1194711463//Y-m-d2007-11-10 1194711463//H:i11:17 by Chris

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    Thanks for writing this script, but as you can probably guess I have a problem. It's the same as what Brian posted on 6/16.

    I installed GreaseMonkey successfully. And I installed the script. I'm using New Blogger. I can see the Trackback box on my post template. I insert the trackback URL. I get a success message. I see the link in del.icio.us. But when I look at the blog I'm citing, nothing is displayed. My trackback doesn't appear.

    Am I doing something wrong?

    Thank you for your time.

28. Comment at 1195064124//Y-m-d2007-11-14 1195064124//H:i13:15 by Stephen Paul Weber

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    @Chris — if you are not putting the trackback URL it may or may not give an error. Make sure you are using the trackback URL, NOT the post URL (unless they are the same, which is rare). If nothing is displayed still that may have to do with haw their blog is configured to display things.

29. Comment at 1208666750//Y-m-d2008-04-19 1208666750//H:i23:45 by LC

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    Thanks a ton for this SPW. A huge help to those who need to issue trackbacks out to others and are stuck at Blogger.

30. Comment at 1208895859//Y-m-d2008-04-22 1208895859//H:i15:24 by Anacher Forester

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    Stephen,

    I've been using this script to great effect for some months now. Unfortunately, Blogger tweaked their system on April 18 and now The trackback box is now 3x as wide. It obscures most of the editing functions. Also, it seems to disable the "Preview" function. What gives?

    -AF

31. Comment at 1208897692//Y-m-d2008-04-22 1208897692//H:i15:54 by Andy Beard

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    I have just been told that there is a problem now with a new update to Blogger that messes up the layout.

    p.s. It is great to see the pingback from one of the people scraping me listed here and not my own article.

32. Comment at 1208977360//Y-m-d2008-04-23 1208977360//H:i14:02 by Stephen Paul Weber

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    @Andy - do you mean that the script breaks on recent versions of Blogger? I can reinstall it and try to debug.

33. Comment at 1208978757//Y-m-d2008-04-23 1208978757//H:i14:25 by Andy Beard

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    Currently the last comment on my article from Anacher
    http://andybeard.eu/2007/06/blogger-trackback.html

34. Comment at 1209581513//Y-m-d2008-04-30 1209581513//H:i13:51 by Anacher Forester

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    Stephen,

    Any luck thus far in debugging your trackback script for Blogger? It worked so amazingly well for me until that Blogger update two weeks ago. I haven't been able to find a comparable script anywhere. :?(

    Cheers,

    AF

35. Comment at 1209593395//Y-m-d2008-04-30 1209593395//H:i17:09 by Anacher Forester

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    Uggh. Sorry for the comments in triplicate. Firefox crashed on me and my first comment did not show up once let alone twice!

    -AF

36. Comment at 1209695829//Y-m-d2008-05-01 1209695829//H:i21:37 by Stephen Paul Weber

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    There was indeed a layout problem caused by some changes to Blogger - I have fixed them. If you reinstall the script you should be good

37. Comment at 1209839286//Y-m-d2008-05-03 1209839286//H:i13:28 by Anacher Forester

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    Thanks much Stephen!

    -AF

38. Comment at 1211609879//Y-m-d2008-05-24 1211609879//H:i01:17 by Anacher Forester

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    Hullo again Stephen,

    FYI, another Blogger update earlier this month seems to have made this script a little buggy again. It's the same issue as last time.

    Cheers,

    AF

39. Comment at 1211615114//Y-m-d2008-05-24 1211615114//H:i02:45 by Anacher Forester

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    PS It works fine until the "draft auto-saved" kicks in. Then it goes all screwy.

40. Comment at 1213460030//Y-m-d2008-06-14 1213460030//H:i11:13 by Wildy

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    Hi.

    I installed the new script and now I don't get a trackback field at all. Any ideas?

    I mean the script is enabled, and is for the correct blogger but I don't see the field. Did you remove it by chance?

41. Comment at 1213555527//Y-m-d2008-06-15 1213555527//H:i13:45 by Jenn

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    I was very excited to find this script but I've just installed it and don't see the trackback box. I have Blogger's backlinks enabled - does that matter?

42. Comment at 1213796464//Y-m-d2008-06-18 1213796464//H:i08:41 by Stephen Paul Weber

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    @Anarcher @Jenn - I will try to look into this when I get some time

43. Comment at 1214559605//Y-m-d2008-06-27 1214559605//H:i04:40 by Graham White

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    I'm getting "Component is not available" on the firefox error console with this script now, the error is from line 398. Wondering if I could have done something silly or if there's an easy fix before I look at debugging in more depth?

44. Comment at 1214561054//Y-m-d2008-06-27 1214561054//H:i05:04 by Graham White

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    Bonus, solved the problem. I forgot to mention I was getting the same issue where the trackback box wasn't being show, this was because the script was barfing!

    The solution seems to be that greasemonkey have reserved the name onclick so if you rename the onclick function and the one line that calls it, this script works nicely again. For me that means changing line 360 to myonclick, and line 397 to myonclick too.

45. Comment at 1214837210//Y-m-d2008-06-30 1214837210//H:i09:46 by Stephen Paul Weber

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    @Graham Thanks! I have changed that in the script itself now.

46. Comment at 1215197026//Y-m-d2008-07-04 1215197026//H:i13:43 by Graham White

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    You're welcome! Thanks for the script, works nicely!

47. Comment at 1217604840//Y-m-d2008-08-01 1217604840//H:i10:34 by Wildy

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    Does anyone else find the trackback box obscures the buttons on the editor when it autosaves?

48. Comment at 1217606523//Y-m-d2008-08-01 1217606523//H:i11:02 by Graham White

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    Yes, I find the same problem. I tend to work around it by disabling Greasemonkey while I write a blog post, then turning it back on again when I want to submit. Would be nice to have it fixed though. Perhaps the simplest fix might be to move the trackback box to the bottom of the page perhaps but I've not looked into what causes this one. Oh, for the record I'm using Firefox 3.0.1 but it happened on FF2 as well.

49. Comment at 1217897501//Y-m-d2008-08-04 1217897501//H:i19:51 by Stephen Paul Weber

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    @Wildy Blogger keeps changing their CSS slightly, causiong this problem If you or someone else fixes it I'll gladly apply the patch to the script

50. Comment at 1218474271//Y-m-d2008-08-11 1218474271//H:i12:04 by Hunter

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    The error from the console for attempting to use this script with a blogspot blog is:

    Warning: Expected declaration but found '*'. Skipped to next declaration.
    Source File: http://www.sphere.com/widgets/sphereit/css?siteid=wordpressorg
    Line: 30

    What changes need to be made to make it work for Blogspot? Thanks! I'd love to get this working…

51. Comment at 1219144167//Y-m-d2008-08-19 1219144167//H:i06:09 by video communication

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    Thankyou for this wonderful work

52. Comment at 1219741874//Y-m-d2008-08-26 1219741874//H:i04:11 by icang

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    wew,thanks for this script, it did help a lot , since blogger.com doesnt provide way to trackbacking. i notice that the trackback url will show my blog title not my post title ,is there anyway to change it so it will use the post title instead of blog title,thanks in advance

53. Comment at 1219758390//Y-m-d2008-08-26 1219758390//H:i08:46 by Stephen Paul Weber

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    @icang The script sends out all information according to the trackback protocol - how it is displayed is up to the other site.

54. Comment at 1221198169//Y-m-d2008-09-12 1221198169//H:i00:42 by Anonymous

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    Hi Steve, thanks a lot for this. It works great but noticed a small bug: When typing a post, Blogger automatically saves the draft post every so often. When this happens, the trackback box moves to cover part of the formatting tools, so I'm forced to disable the script, then re-enable it for the box to go where it should, but when Blogger saves again, the box goes back and covers the toolbar. This make sense? I'm using FF 3.0.1 if it matters.

55. Comment at 1221546818//Y-m-d2008-09-16 1221546818//H:i01:33 by Graham White

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    Mr Anonymous, other people have reported this problem too (see above). I spent some time trying to solve the issue yesterday but I've so far been unable to determine what's causing the shift in position of the google RTF box. The only cludgy fix I could come up with was to increase the top padding of the RTF box itself to ensure it's always moved down the page slightly. If I find a decent fix I'll post it (as should anybody else) and I'm sure Steve will update the script.

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