Friday, October 19, 2007

The Search Box page element is currently not returning any search results.

Update, 10/24: This has been fixed.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

We are aware and currently working to fix the image uploading issue. This issue predominately causes the following error codes:
bX-6tnmaz
bX-ltlqzv

For updates and discussion of this issue, please visit this Hot Topic thread in the Blogger Help Group.

Monday, October 01, 2007

PicasaStorageSpace

Users who have paid for additional storage space on Picasa Web Albums may not be able to use their additional storage space from within Blogger. As a workaround, try first logging into your Picasa Web Albums account (picasaweb.google.com) and logging out; your additional storage space should then be accessible from within Blogger.

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Comment moderation email appears broken and without formatting in many email clients. Until this is fixed, the Approve and Reject URLs should be visible at the very bottom in the literal HTML. You can also moderate comments by going to the Posting > Moderate Comments tab in the Blogger interface.

Update, 9/18: This has been fixed.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Animated image files will not stay animated if the file is hosted by Blogger. This happens because Picasa doesn't support animated images and the Blogger-hosted photos are stored in Picasa Web Albums.

Friday, August 24, 2007

The new “Post Feed Redirect” will occasionally stop redirecting clients when it is set to a FeedBurner feed. The workaround for now is to add an “?alt=atom” parameter to the feed URL in your FeedBurner settings.

Update, 8/24: This has been fixed.

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Embedded Google Maps can only be edited in Edit HTML mode. Compose mode will change the embedded code so that the map no longer appears, and this may also cause problems using the posting form.

Update, 9/25: This has been fixed (for a week or so now, actually).

Monday, August 20, 2007

Profile interests, favorites, etc. are not currently displayed as links to browse through other profiles.

Update: this has been fixed.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

PicasaBlogThisAlignment

Images uploaded to Blogger via Picasa’s BlogThis! feature are not appearing if the alignment is set to “left” or “right.” The current workaround is to upload images with an alignment of “none.”

Update, 2/8/08: This has been fixed for a while, now. Closing.

Thursday, August 09, 2007

JavaScriptInTemplate734670

Some script tags inserted manually into the template code, instead of inserted through a HTML/JavaScript page element, will prevent the Template Page Elements tab from fully loading. For instance, some users report that they are unable to view the "Add Page Element" link. To workaround this issue, please ensure that all JavaScript is inserted via a page element.

IndustryOccNonEnglishProfiles

Industry and occupation do not display in non-English profiles.

DeletedPicasaWebAlbum

If you delete all images uploaded to your blog from your Blogger Picasa Web album and then delete that album, you will be unable to upload new images to your blog.

CommentNotificationChar

Comment notification emails sometimes aren't properly displaying special characters (e.g. apostrophes, accents, etc.) in the subject line of the email.

IE6DraggingPhotoIssue

In Internet Explorer 6.0 and in Compose mode, if you upload an image and then drag it to another location in your post, you might be unable to click through to the full size version of the image once the post is published. To avoid this problem, you can either use a different web browser or switch to Edit HTML mode to move the image code manually.

wwwCustomDomainIssue

If you are using a custom domain, your BlogSpot address will only redirect to that domain if it does not have "www" at the beginning. I.e. both xxxxx.blogspot.com and www.xxxxx.blogspot.com will display the blog correctly, but only the former will appear with your custom domain name.

HyphenInProfileSearch

If a profile item (Interests, Favorites, etc.) includes a hyphen (eg: Blogger-Cat), then the profile search will not display any results. To workaround this issue, simply replace the "-" with a "+" in the address bar of the search results page, and you'll get the proper results.

RectangularPhotoDisplay

Some rectangular images uploaded via the Picture widget in Layouts are being displayed as square, and are thus distorted.

Monday, July 02, 2007

A bug that made it trivially easy to accidentally set your blog's language to Albanian has been fixed. If you notice that your blog's archives and other text appears to be in Albanian (and you don't want it to be), use Settings > Formatting to change your blog's language.
Readers with Internet Explorer will see a white background behind polls added with Blogger in draft's Polls page element.
The Polls page element (on Blogger in draft) does not currently work well with non-Roman Unicode characters. Also, you may be unable to save a poll in some languages because the closing date contains non-Roman characters.

Monday, June 11, 2007

Autosave and image upload do not work with the new Safari 3 beta. We're investigating.

Update, 6/12: All fixed! Autosave and image upload, as well as other features of Blogger’s Compose mode work in the Safari 3 beta.

Update, 6/22: A caveat on this: Safari’s text editor implementation has a habit of creating <div> tags around each paragraph under certain, yet-to-be-determined circumstances. If you notice a lot of extra space between paragraphs after using Safari 3’s editor, choose “Edit HTML” and delete the <div> and </div> tags.

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

The Blogger Dashboard widget for Mac OS X cannot be used to post to the new version of Blogger.

Update, 6/6: Version 1.0.1 of the widget has been released and works with the new Blogger. Download it.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

AdSenseWidgetError

Adding or editing an AdSense page element from your Layouts section may return the error message "An internal error occurred. Please try again." As a workaround to this issue, copy your AdSense code from your AdSense account and insert it into an HTML/JavaScript page element in the layouts section of your blog.

CantSeeAddPageElement

Some users report that they are unable to see the “Add Page Element” links in their Template | Page Elements tab. This occurs when the blog incorrectly tries to display from a URL with “www2” instead of “www.” To work around this problem, simply remove the “2” from the URL.

Update, 5/24: If you are still experiencing this issue but do not have a "2" in your URL, then there may be JavaScript causing the "Add Page Element" links to disappear. Please ensure that you put all JavaScript into JavaScript page elements, instead of directly into your template code.

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

It is currently not possible to add new Feed page elements to your templates. We are working on the issue.

Update, 5/9: it should now be possible to add new Feed page elements to your templates as expected.

Friday, April 27, 2007

Users posting from the Picasa application are unable to log in.

Thursday, April 05, 2007

NonEngLangInPicasaWebAlbums

Users who have their Picasa Web Albums language set to a language other than “English (United States)” will not see their albums of photos uploaded through Blogger.

Friday, March 16, 2007

If your are posting photos through the Picasa application, you may see your photos each appearing in individual albums. We are working to correct this problem. The best work around is to go to the blogger application and post a photo. All following photos should appear in that newly created album, including those you post from the Picasa application.

Update: The problem has been fixed such that all future photo uploads should go to the most recent web album created for that blog. We are still working to correct people who have been affected by this bug.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

MultipleCommentsModerated

If a blog has comment moderation enabled and receives multiple comments in the same minute to different posts, some of those comments will not appear in the comment moderation list, though they will be counted on the Dashboard as needing moderation. These comments will also not appear on the blog.

The comments have not been lost, and we will be fixing this in the near term to prevent it from happening again. At that time we will also recover the past missing comments so that they can be
moderated.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Comment feeds are not updating correctly for blogs with many comments. The feeds instead only show the earliest comments. A temporary workaround is to add pagination query parameters to the feeds to get the latest comments.

Update, 3/4: This has been fixed. Comment feeds should now show the recent comments for a blog or post, regardless of how many total comments the blog has.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

PicasaBlogThis

The initial release of BlogThis! from Picasa to the new version of Blogger in beta has the following problems that we are working to resolve as quickly as possible:
  • If you are signed in as a Blogger user, sign out, and then sign back in with your Google account (to post to the beta), you will receive an error. The work around is to close the window and repost from Picasa (signing in with your Google account).
  • There is no sign out link if you are logged in as a beta user. The workaround is to exit Picasa.
  • Posting multiple large images sometimes results in the photos not being uploaded properly. The best workaround for the moment is to use the Blogger edit post form to upload the images.

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Word 2007’s new Blogger support does not currently work. We are working closely with the Microsoft Word team to fix this.

Update, 2/1: This has been fixed.

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Accessing new Blogger at beta.blogger.com and uploading an image via the posting form will result in error code bX-68tbuv. Until this is fixed, the solution is to go to www.blogger.com and log in there, which will redirect correctly to www2.blogger.com for new Blogger accounts.

Nevertheless, update any old bookmarks that have beta.blogger.com to use www.blogger.com instead.

Update, 1/31: This has been fixed. Regardless, use www.blogger.com and not beta.blogger.com.

Monday, January 22, 2007

ArchiveTemplateNotSupported

The “Archive Template” feature, once available to long-time users of old Blogger, is not supported in new Blogger.

Friday, January 19, 2007

ClassicTemp20LabelsOnly

If you use a classic template, the labels pages will only display the last 20 posts for each label, with no link to view older posts. If you switch to a Layouts template, you will automatically get "older posts" links to go back through each set of labels.

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Some Blogger Mobile photos posted to the old Blogger will not appear if the blog they’re on is switched to the new Blogger and given a custom (i.e. non-Blog*Spot) domain.

Update, 1/18: This has been fixed. Blogger Mobile images now display as expected on custom domain blogs.
Some images uploaded to Blogger that used to appear on custom domain blogs may not be appearing. We are working to reverse this change.

Update, 3:45PM: This has been fixed.

Sunday, January 14, 2007

FTPLogin530Error

Some users receive the following error message, when trying to publish via FTP "reason: 530 Login authentication failed". This error is specific to certain hosting providers (startlogic for example). The reason for this error that certain hosting providers are denying FTP logins from the Blogger server. The Blogger team is working on fixing this problem.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

PerLabelFeedsFTP500Error

Per-label feeds for FTP blogs give a 500 error when the label contains spaces.

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

FTPURLSettingInBeta

For FTP blogs, leaving the archive URL setting blank behaves differently than it did in the old version of Blogger, which causes some archive links to be incorrect. If your archive path is different than your main publishing path, you'll want to be sure to fill in the archive URL as well, rather than relying on the default. Enter just the URL of your archive directory, without a filename.
FTP blogs currently publish post pages even if the post page setting is set to "no." Until we fix this, feel free to delete these files from your server if you don't want them. (They'll be in /year/month/ folders in the same directory as your main blog page.)

Thursday, January 04, 2007

BlogThis! is not yet supported in beta (it won't accept beta login information). This applies both to the original BlogThis! link as well as the Blogger button on the Google Toolbar.

Update (9/12): This is now being worked on.

Update (1/4): This is now fixed. The BlogThis! bookmarklet and Google Toolbar button link to a login box that accepts either old Blogger or new Blogger (i.e. Google Accounts) logins.

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

The “Flag for Review” button is missing from the navbar on beta Blog*Spot blogs.

Update, 12/4: The “Flag” button is now present in the navbar, though it has a bug that clicking “flag” once will toggle the button to “unflag” on all other Blog*Spot blogs.

Update, 1/3: The toggle behavior has been fixed.

Monday, December 18, 2006

Logging in with an old Blogger account to post a comment on the new Blogger is giving a “please try again later” error. Until we fix this, it may work to log in first at http://www.blogger.com/login.g, and then go to the comments page on the new version of Blogger in beta.

Update, 12/18: This was fixed this past Friday.

Saturday, December 09, 2006

IESecuritySettingHighCHTC

Users who have their Internet Explorer security settings set to “High” may have trouble logging in. After sigining in, they see a “Click here to continue” link that does nothing. One workaround is to right-click on this link and choose “Open in a new window.”

Monday, December 04, 2006

Comments posted with Blogger accounts or Google Accounts that have not signed up for the new version of Blogger in beta cannot be deleted by their authors. Update, 12/4: This was fixed some time ago.
Setting a blog's timezone to America/Sao_Paulo may cause errors in the new version of Blogger and on Blog*Spot. This is due to daylight saving time changes that lead to Sundays without midnights in the timezone. Other timezones that have Sunday-at-midnight daylight saving time changes will be similarly affected. Until we fix this, the workaround is to use a different timezone. Update, 12/4: This has been fixed. Please contact Blogger Support if you see any other timezone problems.
Blogs set to not appear on your public profile will not be listed in the Blogger GData metafeed of blogs. This will prevent them from appearing in 3rd party clients that use the new version of Blogger’s GData/Atom 1.0 API. Until this is fixed, you may be able to set your client to post directly to your blog’s “service.post” URL. Update, 12/4: This has been fixed.
Clicking on links in the navbar on Blog*Spot blogs with Internet Explorer 7 will open those links within the navbar. Until we fix this, the workaround is to right-click and open the link in a new window. Update, 12/4: This has been fixed.

Monday, November 27, 2006

LayoutsInSafari

Drag-and-drop customization of the new Blogger’s new template system (layouts) does not work in Safari, nor does fonts and colors customization. You must use either Firefox or Internet Explorer 6+ to use these features of the new Blogger. (They also work mostly with Opera 9, though with some visual glitches.)