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Tutorial Notes On Building A Blogger Theme
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ThemeBasics.md

Theme Basics

Theme Basics is a series of tutorial notes on building a Blogger theme.

Discover tips and learn how to start building your own Blogger theme:

  • Minimum code requirements.
  • Basic templates.
  • Tags & Data definitions.
  • Resources and examples.

Learn how you can create your own Blogger template.
It is easy - You will enjoy it.

Visit project site for details: https://nikahmadz.github.io/Theme-Basics/

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Google Gadgets

  • Uses iframe 👎

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nikahmadz commented Jun 16, 2017 •
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Template Script

<b:template-script async='true' name='indie' version='1.0.0'/>

generates

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://resources.blogblog.com/blogblog/data/res/3742035236-indie_compiled.js" async="true"></script>

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If you want to design your template to handle both single- and multiple-author blogs, you can use the data:team variable to distinguish between the two cases. E.g. <b:if cond='data:team=="true"'> (display multiple authors) </b:if>

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Private blog

Settings > Basic > Let search engines find your blog? > Yes / No

<b:class cond='data:blog.isPrivate' name='isPrivate'/>
<b:class cond='data:blog.isPrivateBlog' name='isPrivateBlog'/>

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To do:

super includes

<b:include name='super.headerByline'/>

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To do:

b:skin creates entries in Theme Designer > Advance CSS

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nikahmadz commented Jul 8, 2017 •
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Blogger Page Types

There are 8++ types of pages available in Blogger.
Each URL has different object available:

  1. Homepage = isHomepage, feed, index
  2. Search = isSearch, feed, index
  3. Search Query = isSearch, feed, index, searchQuery
  4. Search Label = isSearch, feed, index, searchLabel
  5. Archive = isArchive
1. | <a href='/'>Home</a>
2. | <a href='/search'>Search</a>
2.1 | <a href='/search?q=a'>Search Query</a>
3. | <a href='/search/label/a'>Search Label</a>
4. | <a href='/2017_07_09_archive.html'>Archive</a>
5. | <a href='/2017/07/a.html'>Post</a>
6. | <a href='/p/a.html'>Page</a>
6.1 | <a href='/p/admin.html'>Admin</a>
7. | <a href='/404'>404</a>
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		<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'> 
			<b:comment><!-- 1. (homepage) only homepage --></b:comment>
		<b:elseif cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'/>
			<b:comment><!-- 2. (page/post) all item pages --></b:comment>
		<b:elseif cond='data:blog.pageType == "static_page"'/>
			<b:comment><!-- 3. (page) all static pages --></b:comment>
		<b:elseif cond='data:blog.pageType == "archive"'/>
			<b:comment><!-- 4. (archive) all archive pages --></b:comment>
		<b:elseif cond='data:blog.searchQuery'/>
			<b:comment><!-- 5. (search) all search pages --></b:comment>
		<b:elseif cond='data:blog.searchLabel'/>
			<b:comment><!-- 6. (search/label) all label pages --></b:comment>
		<b:elseif cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'/>
			<b:comment><!-- 7. (homepage/search) all index pages --></b:comment>
		<b:elseif cond='data:blog.pageType == "error_page"'/>
			<b:comment><!-- 8. all error pages --></b:comment>
		<b:else/>
			<b:comment><!-- unknown pages --></b:comment>
		</b:if>

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nikahmadz commented Jul 10, 2017 •
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References

http://template-data.blogspot.my
http://blogger2ools.mystady.com/

https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/46871?hl=en&ref_topic=6321969
https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/46888?hl=en&ref_topic=6321969
https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/46995?hl=en&ref_topic=6321969
https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/47270?hl=en#global

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nikahmadz commented Jul 25, 2017 •
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<meta expr:content='data:blog.postImageThumbnailUrl' property='og:image'/>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.title' property='og:site_name'/>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.metaDescription' property='og:description'/>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.pageName' property='og:title'/>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.url' property='og:url'/>

And then save template.

Facebook and other social networks use the OG info to decide what to show from shared items. You need to make sure that the images you are including in your posts are big enough to be picked up but not so big that they eat up all your storage space in Picasaweb. I generally upload images that are under 300KB and they all seem to be picked up okay.

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