Version 1.2.1 of the Blogspot.stack was released on 19 March 2018

If you purchased this stack, you can re-download the installer via your Paddle account.
If not, you can read more about it here .

Changes, additions and fixes:

• When using Disqus, you can now have the number of comments shown, in each post.
• Categories, archives and the RSS-feed would not render with some PHP installations. Reason: on those servers PHP is not allowed to fetch data via regular PHP commands. This has been fixed by using HTTP requests.

Version 1.2.0 of the Blogspot.stack was released on 16 March 2018

If you purchased this stack, you can re-download the installer via your Paddle account.
If not, you can read more about it here .

Changes, additions and fixes:

• You can now change FontAwesome icons. There is a new section, called 'FontAwesome Icons', where the checkbox has been moved to and input fields are added where you can change the icons, supported by Stacks : https://fontawesome.com/v4.7.0/icons/
• The RSS-feed link now links to XML data, generated by the Blogspot.stack, on your own webpage. The XML data is pulled from Blogger and the links to your Blogger-posts are changed so they point to your webpage's blog. When you have chosen to filter the posts by category or categories, the RSSfeed data is also filtered by those same categories.
• Added a blank option to the 'Time format'-popup menu. When chosen, only the post's date will be shown.
• Removed the 'Show RSS link'-checkbox. If you want to list the RSS link, place the 'Blogspot RSS Feed link'-stack where you want it, or use the code snippet.
• Removed the 'Enable categories'-checkbox. If you want to list the list of categories, place the 'Blogspot Categories'-stack where you want it, or use the code snippet.
• Added CSS to .blog-entry and .blog-entry-body classes, so the use of float and other styles do not affect the layout.
• Version number in edit-mode now shows the actual version number.
• Some oddity with server locales / timezones when formatting the archive dates correctly has been fixed.
• A problem with detecting if Blogger is reachable has been fixed.
• Some problems with showing Blogger or Disqus comments have been fixed.
• The localized string for 'Comments' was not used with Disqus comments. Fixed.
• Some problems with displaying UTF8 characters in localization strings have been fixed.
• Changed all HTTP URLs to HTTPS URLs where appropriate

Read the user manual for more info on how to use the code snippets.

Version 1.1.5 is out with the following changes:

Released on 05 mar 2018.

• Better error handling.
• Reports error message from Blogger, when there is one.
• Added localization field for 'No posts found' string.
• When no posts are found, a 'No posts found'-string will be shown. If you do not want this message displayed, simply empty the corresponding localization field.
• The categories-list is now sorted case-insensitive. Categories in Blogger are case-sensitive!
• Added a category-filter to only show posts and an archive-list of specific categories. If you specify more than 1 categpry (comma-separated), only posts which have all specified categories will be listed.
• Moved the common shared PHP code files to the side-wide assets folder.
  This means that you can clean-up the 'files' folders inside your blog-folders.
  To do this, first republish all your blog-pages with RW, then start your FTP client. Open your site folder, open the folder of the blog-page, open the 'files' or 'index_files' folder and delete all of the following files, when you see them there:
  
  • archiveMonths.xml
  • blogContents.php
  • blogEntry.php
  • blogspot.css
  • blogspot.js
  • bshelpers.inc
  • bspear.inc
  • bsremotegrab.inc
  • bsrequest.inc
  • bssocket.inc
  • bsurl.inc
  • bsxml.inc
  • feedtimeline.js
  • LHPEAR.php
  • localVars.php
  • rapidblog.js
  • rapidBlogHelpers.php
  • remoteGrab.php
  • Requestrb.php
  • Socketrb.php
  • URLrb.php
  • xmlrb.php
• RSS feed link is a link again.
• Various internal bugs fixed.
• Updated the documentation on this page.

If you purchased this stack, you can re-download the installer via your Paddle account.
If not, you can read more about it here .

Version 1.1.4 is out with the following changes:

Version 1.1.4

Released on 27 feb 2018.

Known issues with deprecated, removed and changed PHP calls from PHP v5.4 through v7.1 : fixed

Some other bugs fixed.

Added a checkbox 'Display errors on', which shows possible PHP warnings. Use it on your local machine and on your live site and then please report any warnings and errors you see (Deprecated: , Warning:, Notice:, Fatal error:), to me, with screen-shots. Then switch it of again.

Added YEAR-only option to archives. When selected, archive-links are shown as 1 link per year, and when 'Show archive count' is checked, with the number of posts per year.

Removed 'Show author' checkbox - you can swicth it on or off in the 'Alternate ordering'-settings.

Added the option to leave out blogpost-sections inside 'Alternate ordering'. If you don't want a certain section in your blogposts, check 'Alternate ordering' and choose the 'blank' option for that section.

Added the RSS feed link as a stack. Instead of being always on top of the blog, you can now place it anywhere you prefer, or use this code snippet: <?php renderRSSlink(); ?>

Included FontAwesome via Stacks API.

Cosmetic changes.

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If not, you can read more about it here .

Version 1.1.3 is out with the following changes:

Version 1.1.2

Released on 23 feb 2018.

Bug fixed when viewing a permalink.

Permalinks now have the Google SEO name added to their URLs.

Version 1.1.3

Released on 23 feb 2018.

You may now also enter the complete domain, like myblog.blogspot.nl, if you feel more comfortable about it.

Domain check: if the domain you entered, doesn't exist, an error is displayed at the top of the page. In Preview and real-time mode.

Some PHP4 code removed.

Fixed E_STRICT and E_DEPRECATED errors. Not by simply switching error-reporting off, but really fixing the code!

If you purchased this stack, you can re-download the installer via your Paddle account.
If not, you can read more about it here .

Version 1.1.1 is out with the following changes:

Version 1.1.0

Released on 21 feb 2018.

Added 'In blog-entry footer (default)' to the Interblog-settings.

Version 1.1.1

Released on 22 feb 2018.

Bug fixed in XML parser.

Code improvements.

If you purchased this stack, you can re-download the installer via your Paddle account.
If not, you can read more about it here .

After installing the update, you have to mark the page as changed and re-publish it, so the updated code files get uploaded to your server:

As a replacement for the old RapidBlog from Loghound , I created a replacement, named Blogspot.

Although RapidBlog was a page-plugin for Realmac's RapidWeaver , my replacement is a stack, for use with YourHead's Stacks-plugin .

Read all about it here

The advantage now, is that:

• You don't have to add new posts inside RapidWeaver. Blogger is much better for that purpose.
• It's mobile-friendly
• By using Stacks, you can place a Blogger-blog anywhere in the content-area of the page.
• It's fast
• No usernames and passwords required to login to Blogger.
• Blogspot.stack displays any public accessible Blogspot-domain.

Here's a tip on how to redirect visitors of your blog on Google permanently to your own blog-page. Very handy when using my Blogspot.stack to display your Google Blogger blog on your own website.
When doing this, you don't have to worry a bit about the Blogger-theme ... no-one will ever see it.

Login to your Blogger-account and choose the blog you want to redirect.
Then, click on the 'Edit HTML' button:


When you see the source code of the theme, add a 'meta refresh' tag to the HEAD-section, as in the example in the screenshot:


Note: when you have saved this change, you won't be able to preview new blog posts from within Blogger... because the preview will redirect you immediately to your website.

Some things to consider:

When editing the source code or when you write a blog post, you might get the warning from Blogger that you are mixing http and https content. So ...
1) your own domain is HTTP and you load images or other things from a HTTPS domain, like from blogger.com : no problem
2) your own domain is HTTPS and you load images or other things from a HTTP domain : problem, needs to be avoided!
3) when your domain is reachable via both HTTP and HTTPS, always redirect HTTP to HTTPS. This can be done via editing the Apache VirtualHost file and add a permanentRedirect rule, or add rewriteCond rules to a .htaccess file in your root website folder : search Google for rewrite rules

So, now that you know a bit more, you can ignore the warnings from Google because you know why the warning pops up.
Furthermore, in the case of adding the META-tag, the warning is irrelevant, because you redirect any visitor immediately to your website.

Last but not least: if you load things form other domains than yours, install Privacy Badger (from EFF) and test your site with it. You’ll see what gets blocked and that’s what visitors, who also use a plugin like this, might experience too.