Scheduled Posts
- Scheduled FTP publishes now work.
- Posts published via scheduling will trigger BlogSend emails.
- General reliability improvements.
Blog List
- Improved Blog List update reliability.
- Fixed bX codes on Blog*Spot when certain sites are added to a Blog List.
- Removed bolding of blog titles.
- Usability and cosmetic improvements to the Blog List configuration dialog.
Posts
44 comments:
Yesterday and today my Blog List has condensed itself into a list of blog titles but without the other features that were there before. I ended up deleting and reentering Blog List last night and the other elements were restored. I'm assuming I should just sit tight and things will eventually right themselves again.
I've been using "scheduled posts" for the last few weeks and have had no issues, it's really a great feature and a real enhancement to the posting process.
I do have one unrelated question - my template (must be the old one) does not give me the archiving option I've been seeing on a lot of new Blogger blogs - namely little arrows that can either expand or collapse an entire year's worth of posts into one line. When they are collapsed there is a little number showing how many posts there were in that year. Am I right in assuming that is one of the "new" template features, and I have to migrate my blog over in order to use it? My longest archiving window in my list of template options is for one month.
Thanks for the help.
Hey Pete,
While most of these issues are working for me (I guess I'm loved by Blogger) I have only one slight problem regarding OpenID (which involves only one of my blogs).
Basically everytime I use it, it refuses to "confirm" on the first attempt, but it works on the second.
Any reason as to why this is?
Note: Not a major problem, just a tiny, winy itty bitty one. :-D
@darnell: Could you be more specific? What steps are you taking?
Today I tried scheduling a second post for a different date than the first one that seems to be working. It presented me with the following error when I hit publish:
bX-563r0t
Additional information
blogID: 5046333608458306911
host: draft.blogger.com
postID: 6743731741381181522
uri: /post-edit.do
@Pete: Hey Pete! Thanks for the quick response!
Basically whenever I try to post a comment using OpenID with this blog domain [ColonyWorlds.com], it usually rejects the first attempt by saying I typed in the wrong domain or something. Ironically, this is the ONLY domain that does this, as the others are operating perfectly. :-)
You guys are doing great work!
hi guys
I have managed to get most of my blog lists working now - partly through your bug fixing, and partly from discovering little idiosyncracies like you MUST have the www in front of a Typepad blog address for it to work properly, etc etc
But I still have 4 blogs (all blogspot) that are refusing to show titles/dates of latest updates.
You can see them on my blog, floating folornly at the bottom of my "Friends" blogroll.
I have tried so many ways of getting these to work - but with no joy yet.
Any ideas?
It works! Scheduled postings now work for me unlike last week's attempt! I also received the emailed post. I shall keep on scheduling them ahead and hope all goes well. Thank you for this fab feature!
I started using the Blog List sometime last week, its been an off/on thing for me. Sometimes I'm able to edit the list most times NOT. Every time I try adding a blog from Wordpress, the update just 'hangs'. SO nowadays, I'm just adding through the CSS itself.
I am trying to add it to my blog, that people can sign up for my blog, like a subscription service. I signed up for google groups and then feed burner in hopes that I'd easily see how to do it. I think this page is getting me on track, but it is so scattered. Can someone please tell me how to do it in layman's terms? If you're able to copy your comments to Kickingit06@aol.com that'd be very helpful too.
Blog schedule works perfectly for my blog. I will be greatful if this feature is made available to the normal version of blogger in the near future itself
dunno if this is related... but why do some of my blog links (the one that updates) not work???
Scheduled blogs within the day work great for me. However, I just scheduled a blog for 5/9/08 at 3pm and at the top of the hour it posted at 5am today.
I'm not sure if this where I'm to report these errors, but here is my latest one:
bX-ybpkgx
Additional information
blogID: 5046333608458306911
host: draft.blogger.com
uri: /upload-image.g
I was trying to upload an image into a post when this occured. It's repeated itself several times and I still can't upload an image, even though I managed to earlier today.
P.S. I love the schedular option in blogger-in-draft too!
Worked great for me and I'm thrilled to have this feature--it was the only thing where I thought Typepad had the edge on Blogger and I knew given enough time you'd get it for us and now you have . . .
Thanks for all your work!
Don't know if you saw it a couple weeks ago or not but the Wall Street Journal did a big piece on Dooce and mombloggers, listing a top ten list of momblogs but it was pretty thrilling to be the Blogger rep on the list. Long live Blogger.
Thank You for all your hard work behind the scenes!!!
Exelent work
Blog List still isn't updating automatically for me. I'm having to go to my layout settings and resave it for the updates to show.
All the blogs I have linked are blogger.com ones.
Like others I am having issues with some blogs picking up "latest post" info and some (like my own) are not shown.
http://elainearmen.blogspot.com/
My feed (via feedburner) is picked up just fine on my "MyYahoo" page.
Thanks for the help.
I have a couple free Word Press sites in my Blog list, and for one of them it will list the title of the latest snippet, along with a snippet, but for a couple others, it will only list the title. Why?
BTW, my favorite new feature is the one that allows you to update and save for later publishing. Love it!
Hi! I am so thankful for all the work that is put into making the blogroll, you are amazing!!
I still have some problems, about 8-10 blogs are impossible to upload, even when I know for a fact they have feeds that work.
please help???
norskeinteriorblogger@gmail.com
BTW, one feature I'd like to see in this Blog List is the ability to move the blogs into the position that we want them, like we can the links. Instead, we're only offered alphabetical or recently updated.
Darnell: Thanks for the report. The problem is related to the redirect to the www version of the domain.
eileen: Hrm. If it keeps occurring, that's a problem, but that error looks transient.
Scribbit: Congrats!
When adding links into the blogroll, four of them couldn't be entered no matter how many times I tried.
And the ironic thing is, all four of them were blogspot addresses.
And it'd be great if we could edit the name of the link when we added them instead of hvin to add THEN edit its name.
=]
The poll option in draft blogger won't work right. It doesn't show the question, only the answers. I've tried it several times.
@ Pete: Thanks Pete! It definitely was on my end!
~Darnell
I've been trying unsuccessfully to schedule a post. I'm having issues in the title field, and the post field. My typed wards turn into ???????. I'd really like to start using the "scheduled posts" Everything else on the blog is stupendous. Keep of the good work. You're all Shinning Stars.
Charlene
I still can't get the Blog List to work. Trying to import from reader, and selecting which blogs to import. After I hit submit, it says "Please correct the errors on this page" ... But nowhere does it indicate what those errors might be.
For the last 2 days I've had trouble with this. I use to post my new message at any time of the day, immediately and that was fine. Now, suddenly, I have no choice: the posting is automatically scheduled to the time in France on the same day. The problem is I live in Japan. For exemple(today) I post on may 3rd at 10:48 and I get a message telling me it will be posted at 18:48!
I tried changing the time to 10:48, in the posting options but I'm beeing refused and told this is not acceptable and it should be 18:48 !
May be I should just choose another time in the future ? but if the computer is not on or I'm not logged in my blog what happens ?
This is not convenient for me.
Please, can you suggest how to get back to the more simple way I was using ?
Thanks a lot
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Oh my god . The scheduled thing is making my blog sper stupid okey ?
I have tried post-dating some posts into the future to test the scheduling, but they are just posting now. Do you have to check any particular options in your setting to allow scheduling?
I know scheduled posting has been moved to be a regular blogger feature...but it DOES NOT WORK! I have repeatedly test it and it moves right back into draft form as of the publish time. When will this *really* work?
I'm testing to see if my OpenID works.
Testing
Testing
I´ve used the scheduling feature several times, now both in draft and live, and it's never worked right for me. I think it's a timing problem: I have my account set to Santiago, Chile, and when it says "this post saved at [time]" that time is always correct, but when I go to change the post time the time that's there is always some random time several hours beforehand. If I set a post to publish at, for example 7:05pm Santiago time (as I did last night), at that time it doesn't show up - the truth is that I've never waited to see when exactly it shows up since I've come back to check on it just after the scheduled time and just posted manually. Any clues? Thanks!
The post i posted today will only appear tomorrow! Can you tell me whats the problem , and how to solve it ????????????? Reply needed!
I founded the Blogger Draft to be very good!
Many of the problrm's that others are having I resolved within a month of frustrations. The problem was ME, and many of the New Templates that I used to change my blog look to enhance my reader's enjoyment. Every New Template does not format your format accordingly. Some remove your formatting, or condense your sight; some makes one wonder if that is your blog.
I see the New Templates useful to some, and disastrous to others.
My resolution to those that are having problem's, be patient, read carefully the instructions and test the new template that you choose to use. Some Firewall may need to be set to allow some features of Blogger Draft.
I love Blogger Draft!
Happy blogging and I look forward to reading your blog.
I appreciate Blog Lists and use them extensively, for example on http://www.stockholmbypixels.com/
Update reliability has certainly been an issue, good that you're addressing that.
However, I'm not happy with a couple of changes yesterday. The Blog List suddenly occupies a lot more space (at least in the Mr Moto template we're using) and space is precious.
Also, I would like to be able to turn off the toggling "show all"/"show x". Blog Lists are a great way to have old and maybe dead links automatically moved out of sight as newer stuff are added "on top". That purpose is sort of defeated if people can still do a "show all".
Still, a good feature. Hope you can make it even better.
Hi,
Just now I tried scheduled posting, rather Blogger made me try the same.
Me from India and in my Google Account settings, the Country and Time zone is correctly given. Still, in blogger it shows a different time, not my local time. Before, I used to edit the post publish date and time according to my system time and then used to publish my posts. But now, when I do this it's automatically getting scheduled to a future date, which is actually my present date. :(
Yes, I know what the blogger suggests, publish it without editing the current time blogger is showing, then post it; again open the post in edit mode, change the time and re-post. But it's not the way to do it, right?
I like to see my local time as Post Date or an option to select whether a scheduling is required or not.
To make scheduling worthy for people from all around the world, I think the post-time should be local-time.
Sorry if I am off-topic, it will be helpful if someone can guide me, where to post this suggestion. Thank you.
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Sorry if I am off-topic a little bit, but I don't know where can I protest against scheduled posting method.
So, the idea of scheduled posting is great, but the realisation is poor.
The simpler and maybe the best way to do this is to insert a new scheduling date field next to the date field.
Now the date field functionality is too complicate:
a) dating
b) scheduling
c) URL generating
d) sorting
e) archiving
For example, if someone (like me) want to add a post with future date, can't do it correctly.
If I publish it (as blogger team suggests) with current date and then repost it with a new date, then the URL of the post (and archive date) remain unchanged.
So the date of the post and the date in the link (and the archive) are different, and this mismatch is a problem for the blogger and the readers too.
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