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<\/a><\/p>\nSince I had to edit the template anyway, I decided to make a few other changes too.<\/p>\n
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- Moved the post time to below the title (and removed post author, since it’s only me.<\/li>\n
- Removed the bit of JavaScript that would hide comments on Item pages<\/li>\n
- Fixed the display of icons next to commenters.<\/li>\n
- Some sidebar cleanup<\/li>\n
- Added in some CSS to display labels like other post metadata<\/li>\n
- Pulled the CSS out of the blogger template and put it into a single .CSS file (This alone saved me about 2MB of server space!)<\/li>\n
- Lots of HTML cleanup. I can’t believe the number of places I’d left open elements!<\/li>\n
- Changed my DTD<\/abbr> to XHTML 1.0 Transitional (It still won’t validate though, there’s a lot of work to be done before that happens.)<\/li>\n
- Removed the display of backlinks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
I also changed a couple of settings in Blogger before I was finally done.<\/p>\n
Little did I know…<\/p>\n
Since I publish my blog via FTP, Blogger had to republish the entire site, file by file. Hanging every now and then…<\/p>\n
And then when I looked at my earlier posts, I found them all in single massive paragraphs. Back then, Blogger didn’t have a rich text editor (or maybe it did, I can’t remember) so I used to type my posts in with 2 hard returns to mark the end of a paragraph. Blogger, in all its wisdom, would preserve these hard returns as <br> tags, rather than enclosing each paragraph within\u00a0<p> tags. (Oh glory days! When we didn’t care about semantically marking up content!) I have known for quite a while that Blogger doesn’t seem to want to create paragraphs for you. Not even the new version released just a year ago. Why? Google knows!<\/p>\n
Anyway, I’ve been hand coding paragraphs as I type my posts in Blogger for the last year or so. So most of my new posts display and parse without any problem.<\/p>\n
But today since I was making all these changes, I decided I should fix my older posts and even label them while I was at it.<\/p>\n
And that’s where I hit a brick wall. Or should I say Blogger’s short-sightedness\/cussedness.<\/p>\n
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- Making a change to a post’s labels makes Blogger republish ALL the other labels. Everyone single one in your blog.<\/li>\n
- If you’re editing an older post, you have only two options. Either publish it or save it as a draft. No option to save and publish later.<\/li>\n
- Publishing each old post means you have to wait until it uploads all of the labels each time.<\/li>\n
- If you thought that you could mark a whole bunch of drafts as “publish” from the “Edit Posts” page, think again. All you can do is apply labels to multiple posts there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
So what’s the solution? I don’t want to host my blog on Google’s Blogspot, nor do I want to go purchase a new domain just to point it to Google’s servers. This means I have to sacrifice some new features of Blogger, so be it. But I really want to clean up my older posts. I guess the only solution is to temporarily switch to blogspot, so that republish older posts doesn’t involve a round of FTP each time and when I’m done with all my label and formatting changes, to switch back to my FTP site.<\/p>\n
Too lazy to do that right now though, it will have to wait for another day! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- Removed the display of backlinks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n