Blogger: Insert Code with Syntax Highlighting

I share here a couple of ways how to embed code in Blogger.

Blogger: How to make width fit to the whole screen

I have noticed that my blog wasn't fitting to the screen width means I could not see the whole content horizontally on the screen and had to use the horizontal scrollbar. The right column wasn't visible without scrolling.

I have looked for a fix and found this one.

Blogger Pitfall: Sidebar moved to the bottom

I've found today an issue in my blog: from the homepage listing a list of posts, the sidebar was not visible as expected to the right.In fact it was moved to the bottom of the post.

How to delete images from blogger

Blogger Images are stored here: https://www.blogger.com/mediamanager 

I had to search for this one for removing images in my blogger blog that may contain personal data.

Google Analytics 4 for Blogger keeping Universal Analytics

I have tried to update my Blogger blog to the new Google Analytics tracking (GA4). But I have noticed that my old tracking with Universal Analytics was discontinued (data won't be fed).

Here is the solution I have come to fix it and keeping using UA and GA4 tracking in parallel.

Blogger: Set up Google Analytics to new dynamic tag (gtag.js)

I got this email by Google Analytics:

I thought my Blogger blog was properly set, but checking at the page source code it wasn't.

Blogger: Combined Search with multiple labels and keywords

In Blogger it is not possible to do some advanced search from the built-in search boxes or label/tag cloud.

I present here a workaround for this - implemented in AutoHotkey and Javascript (for my personal Chrome extension) that allows to make combined searches with multiple labels and keywords in a Blogger/blogspot Blog.

Blogger: Analytics issue because of mobile views

I've noticed following trouble with Blogger and Google Analytics:

A same page will have different analytics wether it is opened from mobile or not.

I present here a solution to fix this.

Blogger: share to twitter including post preview with pictures

 I was looking for a way while sharing one of my Blogger blog post to twitter to embed some nice blog preview including images.

I have this solution here: https://www.kimsixbloggersupport.com/2016/04/how-to-add-twitter-cards-to-your.html 

Blogger: Hide Post Footer from Home

While adding the last modified date to my Blogger blog posts footer, this date isn't displayed nicely in the Home / list view.

I have looked for a way to hide the footer from this index view only.

This is the solution I have found.

Blogger: Add Last Updated / Modified Date

I was looking for a way how to display the Last modified date besides the first published date in my Blogger blog.

I have found the solution here: https://www.twistblogg.com/blog/last-updated-date-in-blogger 

How to hide Blog description from Blogger Template

It is recommended for SEO to add a Blog description.

But the default blogger Template will then display it below the Home page title.

This clutters a lot the page and it isn't very useful/ a bit annoying. Specially if you already have an About page. I present here how to hide the blog description from you Blogger theme.

Blogger: Embed GitHub file

I have looked for an answer to this question: How to embed a GitHub file in a Blogger blog post?

Blogger: How to remove date from url

I was annoyed about standard blogger post url with a date in it e.g. https://tdalon.blogspot.com/2020/07/teamsy.html . I wanted a date neutral one so I can redirect documentation with a fixed doc root url (example from internal to external). Instead of previous url https://tdalon.blogspot.com/2020/07/teamsy.html something like this: https://tdalon.blogspot.com/teamsy  This is a solution I have found to fix it.

Blogger: How to add a Table of Contents

I have been looking for a way to insert a table of contents to my blogger blog posts that is built automatically.

This is the solution I have found.

https://www.mybloggertricks.com/2017/02/create-table-of-contents-javascript.html

Thanks to MyBloggerTricks (MBT) for sharing this one.
 

Blogger: How to add Excerpts

I was looking for this one for my blogger blog: How to display in the Blog Homepage not the full blog posts but only a preview/excerpt of the posts with a Read more link?

I have found the answer here:

http://blogaholicdesigns.com/tutorials/how-to-add-post-excerpts-on-blogger/

It is very easy (it has changed a bit with blogger update)

Simply add a page break now called insert jump break where you want the excerpt to end.