{"id":355,"date":"2006-08-15T11:10:54","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T17:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/2006\/08\/15\/blogger-getting-a-much-needed-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2006-08-15T11:10:54","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T17:10:54","slug":"blogger-getting-a-much-needed-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/blogger-getting-a-much-needed-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger getting a MUCH needed upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I switched to using WordPress because Blogger simply lacked the tools I wanted to use. I wanted categories (tags), I wanted a customizable template <i>(but not necessarily free-code)<\/i>, and I wanted speed and efficiency. I may have all that now.\n <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s now a <a href=\"http:\/\/beta.blogger.com\">beta Blogger<\/a> available, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2006\/08\/14\/bloggercom-unveils-new-beta-version\">Mike tells us<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a rundown of some of the cool things Google is finally adding to their blog software that hasn&#8217;t been updated with new features for roughly three years.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Integration with your Google account<\/li>\n<li>Labels (tags)<\/li>\n<li>Template customization<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;Widget&#8217;-like customization<\/li>\n<li>Free-form coding still available<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>RSS feed widgets<\/li>\n<li>Javascripting <i>(there&#8217;s something they will have over WordPress)<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m playing around with the features, viewable <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdflood.blogspot.com\">over here<\/a>. As I learn more and tinker, I&#8217;ll see if this is something I feel like staying with permanently. I&#8217;ve used Blogger for several years now <i>(my very first blog was setup on Blogger back in 2001)<\/i>, so I feel that now that they&#8217;re beginning to add features and improve the system, I owe them a second look.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll report back here on my experiences periodically.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I switched to using WordPress because Blogger simply lacked the tools I wanted to use. I wanted categories (tags), I wanted a customizable template (but not necessarily free-code), and I wanted speed and efficiency. I may have all that now. There&#8217;s now a beta Blogger available, Mike tells us. Here&#8217;s a rundown of some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[322,269,92,319],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-blogging","tag-google","tag-internet","tag-upgrades","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}