Now having translated most of my hacks to the new Blogger, it is time to unveil the templates. I myself will likely be switching soon, and my template will be based on the code here published. The features are similar to the first set, but optomised for the new Blogger.

To install one of these templates, just cut-n-paste the code into the ‘Edit HTML’ section of your blog and save. Confirm deletion of widgets (Yes, unfortunately, you lose you widgets. You can make them again).

Templates

• Basic template – all the basic features of the original set, including peek-a-boo comments and backlinks.
• Comment Form – based on basic, my lightbox comment form added in.
• Comment Photos and Highlighting – based on basic, my comment photos and highlighting hack (as translated by PurpleMoggy) added in.
• Basic Asynchronous – Same as basic but with asynchronous peek-a-boo comments.
• Comment Form Asynchronous – Same as comment form but with asynchronous peek-a-boo comments.
• Comment Photos and Highlighting Asynchronous – Same as comment photos and highlighting but with asynchronous peek-a-boo comments.

I have updated my Peek-a-boo Comments for new Blogger hack to include some bug fixes, the use of an external script (for performance and readability), and comment author links.

JoongSeob Vito Kim has created a version of this script that works with the new blogger post editor.

I have made some minor bug fixes to this script, as well as made it so that it saves the trackback URLs when you save a draft. I took time to fix it, but now my website silverringthing.org.uk is back to normal.

Some time ago I married Johan’s del.icio.us and pinging script with my own trackback script into one new script. That script does not work on the new version of Blogger, and the trackback feature has been glitchy for some time. Outgoing trackback is still something we need on the new version of Blogger, and the pinging services provided by this script might even be useful on other blogging services. Del.icio.us posting? Now that we have labels? Well, Freshtags, my calendar widget, and just tag management in general, will work better if you use del.icio.us. If you disagree, this part of the script is optional.

This script does not overwrite the old script. Running both simultaneously will look dumb on the Blogger Classic interface (there will be duplication), but will not break anything. If you only run on the new Blogger, please remove the old script (if you have it installed).

Install the new script

Userscripts.org entry

There was a minor styling error in this hack — I have fixed it now 🙂

This hack was inspired by a comment on my peek-a-boo link lists hack. It is a one-click install hack of a special HTML widget to your blog. Edit the template and content of the widget to be whatever you want (such as JavaScript includes for external blogrolls). The widget will appear either with just a title, or with ‘[+/-] TITLE’. Clicking the title (or [+/-], depending on the version you choose) will display all of the HTML/JavaScript contents.

It has annoyed me for some time that the default ‘Home’ links on the new Blogger (which I will continue to call Blogger BETA, at least for today, don’t worry, I know that’s officially wrong) go to /index.html. Some internal links (‘View Blog’ from the dashboard) do not, which is worse. Why have a URL longer than it need be? Why have multiple URLs available that people can bookmark? Doesn’t that just confuse things.

This hack is very simple and fixes the problem.