Bloggeratto

Last week after I buzzed the Blogger JS Pagination Hack I had a gmail conversation with Mike Smullin about it and just a day and a half later, he updated his post and added a sample to it.

After this, if you still think that is not enough I will make a re-tutorialization of it and add a testblog to it.

Ok, this is a continuation from the GM Categorization Helper UserScript Post

I have nagged Aditya to Release it as a Fx extension too. so here you can download the extension or allow it for direct install.

Delicious Tag Reference Adder v0.1

Tagging your blog huh? You have several posts and you are just tagging your blog... I could see myself working for more than one day tagging my posts.

Not anymore, at most it will be done in a day and that makes me very happy :) Becuase a Slacker like me should not be put to work more that strictly needed.

So Aditya thought about it, reflected upon it, asked me what would be cool and he cooked up one tasty solution in the form of a Greasemonkey UserScript you can grab here

With this userscript you can enter your blog and go and create a new post. When you do so, this script will ask for your Delicious Username, and will load a column bar with the tags you have in your account, place the cursor where you want them and they will get written down with one click. Presto, Slacker Style!

This userscript will also do some extra naughty things for you if you are using The Hybrid Link or Johan´s Blogger/del.icio.us publisher and categorizer helper script and for final funtionality it will add cuteness to your HTML field when you create a new post.

So, go visit Aditya and see what he has to say about this:


Categorizing Helper Greasemonkey Script

The script will be added even more work prevention features becuase as I said, "Aditya, I demand satisfaction...!" ;)

Who says that I am not a good influence to the young crowd?

I did this Mod long time ago, just after seeing someone using the Post Page Categories that of course will also get the post here.

There were two versions of the Post Page Categories, and there are also two versions of this Mod.

They are very easy to have and mantain and here it is the tutorial:


This aproach is better suited for personal blogs and not intensely updated blogs.

In this version of Blogger Categories, we part ways with the post page categories and take it to a new level creating a Archive rule(you can do it in the way you want) for the categories. in this case lets have them monthly, you must create posts in different months, that way it will always remain in one sole month rule in the archive.

For every different month we will have a category where you can place your categorized posts.

In this categories you must remove the $dateheader$ that is after your Blogger $Tag$ in your template and always input the date below your post title like this:

Title
[Date]

making sure the publish date match with the month of the category your are using. The solution to the hassle of having to remember the dates for your categories is very simple, you only need to use the post template and put the dates there with the category they go with. so you will have not to remember them everytime and it will make easier.

You can also put your date in a date wrapper, in a predefined style or even encoded so when your feed reader takes your posts this will be added by date like if you had not removed the date from your template.you can also store it in the post template so you don´t have to pay no mind after doing it once.

You can now let the blogger system generate the month archives, and then selecting them to take out the link location of them.

After that you only need to do your category sidebar with the link to each category, erase the archive blogger $Tag$ of the sidebar, save and republish.

You have categories that work like a charm everytime and without more effort that channging a template style or adjusting your settings.

See a working example of it in this testblog: Archive Categories

I don´t remember seeing this hack listed anywhere else, but this is actually a pretty simple hack, if you want a pagination effect for your blog that can be adjusted to your liking and know your way around your template, this is perfect for you then.

This is a hack that Mike Smullin released back in early May that don´t really got the atention of the Bloggerosphere.

I can guess it was because of the lack of tutorial in his site about it. i will step into that after i test this in another blog but in the meantime visit Mike and check it out.


This a screenshot from the example blog provided by Mike.

Blogger JS Pagination Hack v1.0

I have decided that before we get to see Blogger upgrades this year (we can only hope categories is the main feature rolled out), i will do a extensive review of Category Methods, Hacks and services that have passed from the start of the platform until today.

Why doing it if we are actually getting categories this year?

That is not a Cold Fact yet, and some of the Categories that have been tried in Blogger will be still valid even if Blogger rolls out Categories for the simple fact that some of them can be used as Sub Categories or be converted back to its original use in the case of those that used Tagging to provide a Category Index.

I will start right away later today, so stay tuned.

There is not as much link field use as it should be by Blogger users, but some of us have been using it for category, tagging or label related features.

So if you like to use the link field for your external linking and also would like to try one of the user made categories for Blogger, now you can have both features in your blog at the same time.

So, lets check this out!.

By now you must have the link field activated by the setting in your blog, there you will put two kinds of info. a external link, and/or the category name the post is going be filed in. you must separate them by commas like this:

http://link.com, category-one,.

Everything else will be sorted out by the script, as usual the implementation requires you going to your template and pasting code into it. the code is here:

the this part of the codes goes inside the <head> tags in your template

<script>

function extlink_tags(text, job, title){
text=text.replace(/\s/ig, "");
var part = text.split(',');
var tags = new Array();
var output="";

if(job=='title'){

for(var i=0;i<part.length;i++){
if(part[i].match('http')) {output='<a href=\"'+part[i]+'\">'+title+'<\/a>'; break;}
else {output=title; break;}
}
return document.write(output);
}
else{
for(var i=0;i<part.length;i++){
if(!part[i].match('http')){
output+="<a onclick=\"javascript:tags_s(\'"+part[i]+"\');\" title=\"View posts filed under "+part[i]+"\">"+part[i]+"<\/a> ";
}
}

return document.write('Posted Under: '+output);
}

}

</script>

There is another extension to it, if you are already using The ABC Index
the script will generate links every time you put a category name.

Here is the code for where you want your post title to show:

<BlogItemTitle>
<script>var link<$BlogItemNumber$>="";</script>

<BlogItemURL><script>var link<$BlogItemNumber$>='<$BlogItemURL$>';</script></BlogItemURL>

<script>
if(link<$BlogItemNumber$>=="") document.write(" <script>$BlogItemTitle$>");
else extlink_tags(link<$BlogItemNumber$>, 'title', "<$BlogItemTitle$>");
</script>
</BlogItemTitle>

It is also posible to put this code in div tags to put your own personal adjustments in anyway you want (Css, Classes, Etc)

After placing this script you must go into your dashboard and edit your links in the link field.

And to end this implementation you only need to put in this code for where you want your be linked in:

<BlogItemURL><div class="categ"><script>extlink_tags(link<$BlogItemNumber$>, 'tags', 'tags');</script></div></BlogItemURL>


It is a little extensive but more than worht to have. i hope you like it.


All thanks to Aditya, that you can find the original post for this in here:

Hybrid Link Field

*Updated at 15/06/06 with implentation code