Comment Text Hack

This is the section of code that has to be replaced to make the words "No Comments" or the number of comments on a post show as different text.

The original content pulls from a specific data location and that is what creates the words No Comments or the number....so making this change tells the page to pull the comment text from the text written in therefore by making this change, you are giving up the ability to see the number of comments on a post as well...just fair warning in case you decide to do this.

This change is really only designed for the Designer Templates....there are other CSS things you can do for the Dynamics that you can find on other blogs out there.

I mostly wanted this for my own reference for the big updates I need to make. Another note about this, that the post template and full template are updated pretty regularly when the Blogger platform is updated so these hacks can disappear and have to be reapplied.

The content that needs to be replaced is < data:post.commentlabelfull/ >: with the text you wanted. This is the section that you are looking for to make that change.

<br /> < b:if cond='data:post.commentSource == 1' ><br /> < span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' expr:data-count='data:post.numComments' expr:data-onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick' expr:data-post-url='data:post.url' expr:data-url='data:post.canonicalUrl' ><br /> < /span ><br /> < b:else/ ><br /> < a class='comment-link' expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick' ><br /> < data:post.commentLabelFull/ >:<br /> < /a ><br /> < /b:if >

Mishka
Official Blog*Star/Blogger TC
Testing Blogger

CSS For Changing The Wording Of The Commentor

This code worked for me in at least one of my blogs for adding "said:" to the comment after the user's name...I image you could change it to whatever word you wanted. This was only tested on regular templates, not the dynamic views.

Thanks to Yoboy for figuring this out for me.

.comments .comments-content .user:after{
content: " said: " !important;
}
.comments .comments-content .icon.user:after{
content: "said: " !important;
font-size: 0px !important;
}

Mishka
Official Blog*Star/Blogger TC
Testing Blogger

Duh. The easiest way to stop hackers is with real passwords.

This linked article really spells it out in simple terms, how much you can do to protect yourself at your end (READ IT!). Obviously, you can only do so much on this side, but why make it easy for hackers by picking stupid passwords to begin with. Cover you own end and then hope and trust that the big institutions that have all our personal info are covering their part like they are supposed to.

To realize that 600K Facebook accounts get hacked a day is really scary...this means that a ton of users are using 123456 as their freaking password...and if that is the case, they almost deserve to get hacked.

Make your passwords a couple of words, that you can remember using upper and lower case letters, and then substitute in some numbers for some of the letters and throw a symbol or two in there between words...it isn't that hard. On top of that, change your password occasionally...make that computer hack program start from scratch and you won't have to worry.

Another smart thing to do is NOT use only one email address for all your logins. If that email gets hacked, you are screwed. You need to have yourself a little bit more diversified than that...and you need to stay on top of your info...logging into an account is the number one way to prove ownership so you need to remember your info.

Mishka
Official Blog*Star/Blogger TC
Testing Blogger

Side by Side Images Option

Just thought this might be helpful to know. Images have to be small enough to fit side by side or then sizing comes into play.

<br /> If you want to put the images side by side, simply put them all under the same div tag<br /> <br /> < div style="text-align: center"><br /> <a href="imageurl"><img src="imageurl"></a><br /> <a href="imageurl"><img src="imageurl"></a><br /> <a href="imageurl"><img src="imageurl"></a><br /> < /div><br />

Remove all break tags. Space was added to div tag.

Mishka
Official Blog*Star/Blogger TC
Testing Blogger

Conditional Tag for Home Page Only

Just wanted to note this for reference.

<br /> <b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'><br />

Mishka
Official Blog*Star/Blogger TC
Testing Blogger

Basic HTML for Removing Sidebar on Page

<br /> <b:if cond='data:blog.url == "Blog Page URL"'><br /> <style> .column-right-outer{ display: none; } .post-outer{ width: 925px; } </style><br /> </b:if>

Remove any double quotations marks.

Mishka
Official Blog*Star/Blogger TC
Testing Blogger

Basic HTML for Image Table

<br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center"><tr> <td>Image1</td><td>Image2</td><td>Image3</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Image4</td><td>Image5</td><td>Image6</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Image7</td><td>Image8</td><td>Image9</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Image10</td><td>Image11</td><td>Image12</td> </tr> </table>

Remove all double quotation marks.


Mishka
Official Blog*Star/Blogger TC
Testing Blogger

Changing "Email Post" Text

These are the instructions for changing the email post alt text on the mouseover to something else...

Expand widgets on a layout template

Find this line of text

<a expr:href='data:post.emailPostUrl' expr:title='data:top.emailPostMsg'>

And replace it with

<a expr:href='data:post.emailPostUrl' title='E-mail This Post'>

Mishka
Testing Blogger

Grammatical Comments

This is the link to the grammatical comments hack.

http://basangpanaginip.blogspot.com/2006/09/how-to-fix-comment-count-grammar-in.html

Mishka
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