Blogger Gets New and Improved Features

Posted by Andrew G.R. / 27 June / Add comment

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Google’s Blogger has unveiled a bunch of new and improved features that are available immediately within their Blogger in Draft sandbox.

* Webmaster Tools Verification. Turn this on to automatically add and verify all your blogs on Google’s Webmaster Tools.

* Star ratings. Add a 0–5 star rating control to the bottom of your posts so that your readers can rate them.

* Import / export of blogs. Back up all of your posts and comments to one Atom XML file on your computer, and import your posts from one blog to another.

* Embedded comment form. By incredibly popular demand, we’ve brought the comment form to your blog’s post pages, with support for Google Account and OpenID authentication.

* New post editor. We’ve completely revised the post editor, bringing in drag-and-drop image placement and better HTML handling.

* Google Gadget integration continues to improve, with better editing of gadget preferences.

* The new look for the Dashboard has seen a handful of tweaks, including a new button style that we’re trying out and, by popular demand, the “show all blogs” toggle is now sticky.

* The subscribe page element has been published to WWW.

* We’ve added a “Make Blogger in Draft my default dashboard” to the Blogger in Draft dashboard, so now you don’t have to remember to type “draft.blogger.com” instead of “www.blogger.com.”

* So you can easily keep up with the news, we’ve added this blog as a tab on the Blogger in Draft Dashboard.