I’ve been playing around with the Blogger Action for a week or so and think it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread except for one little shortcoming:
Blog posts simply follow each other without a space between them. This isn’t at all satisfactory from a blog reader perspective.
Standard blogger templates have a space, a line, and in some cases even a separate frame between posts.
I think I can probably cut and paste a bit of code from a standard template, but if I can do that, is there a way of hacking the Action to automate that process rather than having to keep a snippet of code to paste in every time I upload a new template?
That’s pretty much what I’ve been doing without freeway for years, and I’d really like it to work like magic!
I’ve added a task to change the Action so this get’s done automatically. In the meantime, add the following style to Freeway (using the Edit Styles Dialog) to add the spacing in yourself:
You can change the values to any pixel value you like.
The steps to do this are:
Open the Edit>Styles dialog
Click the + icon in the bottom left
Add the value “.post-footer” in the Tag field
Remove the value from the Name field
Click Extended
Click New and add the names and values from the screenshot.
Ok all the dialogs
Publish and generate the template code
Paste the template code into Blogger (you may need to use the old interface still, due to a bug in Blogger)
That should do it!
Hope this helps,
Joe
On 20 Mar 2012, at 11:58, PeterH wrote:
I’ve been playing around with the Blogger Action for a week or so and think it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread except for one little shortcoming:
Blog posts simply follow each other without a space between them. This isn’t at all satisfactory from a blog reader perspective.
Standard blogger templates have a space, a line, and in some cases even a separate frame between posts.
I think I can probably cut and paste a bit of code from a standard template, but if I can do that, is there a way of hacking the Action to automate that process rather than having to keep a snippet of code to paste in every time I upload a new template?
That’s pretty much what I’ve been doing without freeway for years, and I’d really like it to work like magic!
And yes, the new interface doesn’t work for Freeway at my place either, if it wasn’t for the 3,000 or so posts I have in Blogger I’d move my blogs I think,
To style all the images in a post, paste “.post-body img” in the Tag field and add the styles you want. If you want to add borders or shadows then you’d need to use the Extended button again.
Have fun!
Joe
On 21 Mar 2012, at 09:32, PeterH wrote:
Hi Joe,
Well that works well!
I presume that providing I can find the right values I should be able to style borders to post images (.post-img ?) as well.
Other than writing your own Action (which could automate the process for you), I’m afraid not. Can you point me to an example of what it is you’re doing?
Joe
On 21 Mar 2012, at 10:17, PeterH wrote:
Joe, it’s the wrong forum I know, but while you are here;
I currently add a bit of markup to each division I want to insert Blogger widgets - set out on another thread.
There are two veriables in it “max widgets” and the section id
(widgetbox) which needs to be different for each div.
Is there an action that you can think of that would be simple for me to hack to do this rather than adding markup to each div?
For instance my (modified blogger template) photo blog at http://sunshinecoastdaily.blogspot.com has a number of widgets including “recent posts, blog list, followers”. I can ignore the html and Javascript ones as I can incorporate them into my new template/
I have also found during my recent fiddles, that Adsense is more likely to appear if added via a widget rather than uploaded directly from the Freeway template.
A standard Freeway upload, when viewed in the blogger “Add and Arrange Page Elements” page, seems to add any existing widgets (gadgets) in an ad-hoc fashion, in one division - sometimes in a sidebar.
To enable flexibility to add them in say the footer, I add a bit of markup to my footer box (and in all divs for good measure, giving “widgetbox” a different number for each. (thanks Walter!)
I see. Thanks for clarifying. I think the method you’re currently using is the best way of doing it for now. We’ll look into the possibility of adding a new Action to do this automatically in a future version of Freeway.
I have similar spacing issues with my blog. I followed the above directions you gave, and I still 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/
> I have similar spacing issues with my blog. I followed the above directions you gave, and I still 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?
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Hi again,
If you have added the values exactly as Joe's screen shot at
http://f.cl.ly/items/1U2V1U2C0h3V3j0v3q3K/Screen%20shot%202012-03-20%20at%2012.51.15.png
The value you are trying to adjust is "margin top"
In the example it is a 10 pixels gap, I think you have 20, but as I said on the other post it doesn't look bad to me. You can easily experiment with the dimension by making the value larger or smaller, try for example 5 pixels and see what the difference is for you,
Cheers,
Peter
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In answer to your question though…Umm… in a word. No!
One of my blogs is currently similar to the one shown, the Blogger template is “Awesome Inc”, but I have not yet got around to nutting out the blogger values that will allow that to happen when I upgrade it to my Freeway template.
I’m sure it will be relatively simple to do, by creating post Style attributes in the same manner as above, but I am a plodder when it comes to this sort of thing, so it may be some weeks or months till I get to it.
If you work it out in the meantime,(or if someone else has) please let’s know!
Glad you got that sorted Curtis but I can’t help feeling that your Font sizing is a bit on the large side. Your page screams out at me - at least thats what I feel from it.
40px for your titles and 18px for the posts themselves seems a bit big.
