News!! Post.Snippet Together With Post.Thumbnail: Tools For Summarizing Your Blog

The snippet together with thumbnail attributes right away seem to last available for all Blogger posts, fifty-fifty though they're non documented inward Blogger's official list. This article shows documents what I've industrial plant life out nearly them.

"Fields" inward Blogger

test blog (by altering the template to explicity exhibit these things, together with hence making posts amongst especial possible values. And this is what I've found.

Post.Snippet

If a ship has a jump-break earlier grapheme 140, then the snippet is all the text earlier the jump-break.

But if the ship does non conduct maintain a jump-break, or it is later on grapheme 140, hence the snippet is the start 140 or hence characters. (Line breaks are shown when the snippet is displayed, inward Blogger, but they are non included inward the grapheme count).

Currently, the exclusively agency to command what is inward the snippet is to pose the contents at the start of the post. There is no other agency to edit it. (You may notice that all the posts inward start amongst a paragraph or 2 inward bold. This is how I flag the "snippet" code to myself.)

Post.thumbnail

I haven't been able to operate out the rules for this item yesteryear testing options. So far I know that:

Not every ship has one, sometimes it's blank fifty-fifty if there's an epitome inward the post
It's non automatically the start epitome inward the post
It's not automatically the end epitome inward the post.
It's non the automatically the biggest epitome inward the post.

I right away strongly suspect that it's the start epitome inward a ship that is both hosted inward Picasa-web-albums together with over a surely size (possibly nearly 18kb).

And an English coffee-drinker has worked out that it

creat[es] a 72 pixel foursquare thumbnail [by scaling] the epitome hence that the brusque border is 72 pixels long together with hence crops the other dimension to retain the pump of the image

He equally good suggests controlling the thumbnail choice yesteryear putting the epitome that y'all desire at the rattling start of the ship together with putting style="display:none;" into the <img > statement. I don't similar this idea, though, inward representative Google sees it equally "hiding" content from their spider.

NB or hence people may refer to the post-thumbnail item equally the "cover picture" for a blog-post. This is a valid idea, although the painting exhibit cannot last manipulated inward the same was that other systems permit cover-picture editing.

What your readers see

Unless y'all edit your weblog template to role these values inward a visible way, hence your readers volition non encounter anything dissimilar nearly your thumbnail together with snippet - they only hold off similar regular parts of the post.

But at that topographic point are or hence specific ways that y'all powerfulness to role them, including:

Setting the post-description meta-tag to the value of post.snippet
Editing the template to exclusively exhibit the snippet or thumbnail on surely types of pages.

And if y'all permit your visitors to encounter your weblog using Dynamic templates, hence I'm 99.9% surely that the post.snippet is the painting exhibit used to stand upward for your weblog inward or hence of the to a greater extent than graphical formats.

Using the post.thumbnail together with post.snippet tags

If y'all are happy to conduct maintain the disadvantages of edit your blog's template, hence y'all tin strength out exhibit the snippet together with thumbnail anywhere within the weblog ship area.

The code to role to display them is:

<data:post.snippet/> - for the snippet, and

<img expr:src='data:post.thumbnailUrl'/> - for the thumbnail

You involve to pose the thumbnail into an epitome tag because, of course, it is an image.

Do y'all conduct maintain whatever to a greater extent than information?

In this article, I've shared what I conduct maintain industrial plant life out nearly these 2 fields yesteryear doing or hence testing. But it's probable that I've missed or hence things out.

Have y'all been able to find, or operate out, whatever to a greater extent than detailed rules nearly what post.thumbnail shows?

What else conduct maintain y'all industrial plant life out nearly these tags - or whatever other tags that are available inward our blog-templates but non inward the official list?

Installing code into your blog

Centering gadgets inward your blog.

What are dynamic templates

Advantages together with disadvantages of editing your blog's template

Putting text together with pictures side-by-side