Showing posts with label Blogging Tools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogging Tools. Show all posts

Backup Windows Live Writer Posts and Plugins

I recently came across a handy utility on Codeplex called Windows Live Writer Backup (WLWBackup). WLWBackup is a backup utility for Windows Live Writer. It backs up blog settings, posts and plugins.

image

This tool is useful if you plan to change your machine and need to take a back up of your Live Writer. You need .NET 3.5 SP1 on this machine.

Here is a simple tutorial that shows Backing Up and Restoring your settings, posts and plugins.

Download the Windows Live Writer Backup version 3.0

Add a Twitter Button into Blogger next to the Post Title

You must have observed the new Twitter Button on each post. Within minutes of adding it, a devcurry reader mailed me asking how I implemented the code. It’s quite easy. I am using the tweetmeme service to add a Twitter Button into Blogger with the help of this post Integrating the button into Blogger

Step 1: Sign Into your Blogger account > Layout > Edit HTML. Make sure you save a copy by clicking the link ‘Download Full Template’. Check the box ‘Expand Widget Templates’

Step 2: Copy the code shared in the link I shared earlier. Now this code adds the twitter button at the end of each post. However what we want is to add a Twitter Button next to the Post Title.

Making sure you have checked the box ‘Expand Widget Templates’, search for the text ‘post-header-line-1’

Blogger Twitter Button

Step 3: Just before the closing div tag, add the following code as shown below:

<b:if cond='data:blog.homepageUrl != data:blog.url'>
<script type='text/javascript'>
tweetmeme_url = &#39;<data:post.url/>&#39;;
</script>
<script src='http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js type='text/javascript'> </script>
</b:if>

Blogger Twitter Button

The piece of code 'data:blog.homepageUrl != data:blog.url' checks if the page is not the homepage url and displays the button only on individual posts.

Step 4: Preview the template and then save it.

Now every post of your should have the Tweet Button displayed next to the Post Title

Blogger Twitter Button