Blogger Trouble despite instructions.

Sometime around 12/10/08 (at 11:50 -0400) Rocky Slaughter said:

I have had success with Blogger actions before. I just must be
doing something wrong.

You have to use the Classic blogger template in the Blogger setup,
you do everything in a single Freeway page, and you must upload your
blog template site to your own web space so that the
blogspot.com-hosted template can find the resources it needs.

I strongly recommend using Freeway to upload; do everything ‘by the
book’ before trying something your own way.

My latest blog layout uses XHTML Transitional. I’d post a link, but
it is part of a site design that’s currently behind a password block
so you can’t see any resources (i.e. images) that need to be read
from the site.

XML error message: XML document structures must start and end within
the same entity."

Try running your layout through a validator. If you see errors then
you know something you’ve done to customise the layout in a
non-standard way. Do you have any custom markup in there? Any old
third-party actions? Been using Source Code Snooper?

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1.) I do normally use a “Classic Template.” But I have tried both the layout and the template.
2.) I do not have anything extraneous on the page that would interfere with the Blogger actions.
3.) I have the blog uploaded to my own host so that blogspot can find the resources.
4.) I have no third-party actions or HTML markup.
5.) I did run the script through a validator.

I feel like something in my actions may be incorrect. Unfortunately I do not have the code brains to figure out errors based on viewing the source.

Does that help in understanding the problem?

Once again, here are the links so you can see where I have uploaded to a host… and the difference there is between that and the code I have added to blogger.

Don’t be mislead by the “blog.rockyslaughter.com” That is really a CNAME pointed to ghs.google.com to go to a normal blogspot blog.

http://www.rockyslaughter.com/blog
http://blog.rockyslaughter.com

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You don’t have to use the Classic template. I know I don’t on my blogspot because the bottom link says, “Revert To Classic Template.” What errors are you getting when you paste the code in? The reason why it doesn’t work on classic mode is because the tag system is different on classic and Freeway doesn’t output “classic” tags. I have a book right here that lists all the classic tags.

For instance, layout’s now work with widget id’s like:

<b:section class='archive' id='archive'>
<b:widget id='BlogArchive1' type='BlogArchive'/>
</b:section>

while in classic mode you’d have to write:

<Blogger Archives><$BlogArchiveName$><$BlogArchiveURL$></Blog Archives>

So what does the error message say when you paste things in?


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The error message I get when copy/pasting into the Layout is that “Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly. XML error message: XML document structures must start and end within the same entity.”

I paste it DIRECTLY out of Freeway with no additional markup or anything.


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I paste it DIRECTLY out of Freeway with no additional markup or anything.

Could you perhaps tell us where we can look at the web page itself,
the one that Freeway generates and uploads, online?

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Yes.

Freeway’s Version: http://www.rockyslaughter.com/blog
Blogger’s Version: http://blog.rockyslaughter.com

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Blogger’s Version: http://blog.rockyslaughter.com

Just for troubleshooting, have you tried this using a totally
Blogspot.com-based domain? For example, rockyslaughter.blogspot.com?

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I can try to revert to that, though it is virtually the same thing. I will keep you posted.


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Okay. The new blog is located at http://www.rockyslaughter.blogspot.com

Same problems.


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Hi Rocky,

I’m not sure what can be happening here. I just pasted the code from
that last link directly into my Layout are on Blogger and it worked
fine:

http://softpresstest.blogspot.com/

Make sure you are not running Classic as Dan mentioned previously. The
Actions write the code using the new Blogger 2.0 API. Also, you do
need the blog to be hosted on Blogger (i.e. blogspot), they haven’t
implemented Blogger 2.0 on externally hosted blogs yet.

Hope this helps.

Joe

On 13 Oct 2008, at 21:59, Rocky Slaughter wrote:

Okay. The new blog is located at http://www.rockyslaughter.blogspot.com

Same problems.


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Very, very strange.

When I do it with a “Layout” I take all the existing HTML out of the “Edit HTML” box. Then I paste the Freeway code in there. Is that correct, or are there parts of code that I need to leave in there?

Thank you so much for all the crazy effort of running through the steps yourself. Freeway support continues to blow my mind. I hope you guys stay like this for years to come.


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SUCCESS!

Weirdly enough, I was able to work backwards a little to get it launched correctly. I figured out that I needed to not “expand widgets” because the widgets had to disappear in order for the code to work properly. I also did a hybrid of the existing template and my template and weeded everything out one by one until I got success.

Thanks to everyone who helped. This whole thing was super complicated and I feel like I must have missed one crucial step somewhere along the way.

Donuts and coffee all around!


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Donuts and coffee all around!

Hurrah! :slight_smile:

I’ll have a coffee but I think I don’t deserve the donut. I just
realised that I told you that you should use the Classic template…
when I meant that you mustn’t use the Classic template. Oy, such a
mistake I made!

:frowning:

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i think you must try add element on the blog because in your site just have 2 element so why u not try to add new ? look here http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn100/ponc0/testing.gif but my site not looks good


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Sweet…I was wondering what ever happened with this thread.

Glad to see you got it working Rocky.

I’ll take Keith’s donut if he’s not eating it.


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danjas u have a yahoo messanger bro ?


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No, I don’t have Yahoo messenger.


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any body who have yahoo messanger ? please tell me i will contact to you to asking about blogger anyway thanks a lot


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Hi,

I am having spacing issues with my blog. I have a problem with the spacing between the body and the Authors name. Way too much space! Can you provide me a way to decrease the excess space? Here is the link:

http://bodycreationsinc.blogspot.com/


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