Adding a gadget to a blog with a dynamic-view template

Beer glasses can have widgets, and
now  dynamic-view blogs can have them too

This article is around how to add widgets (also branded as gadgets) to blogs to facilitate own dynamic templates.

Things are looking up:

Previously I've described dynamic templates, and how you can try them on, and furthermore sour, on your blog.   And what time fill with asked "how look after I plunk a whatever implement on my blog", the terse answer was " you can't - yet".

But promptly Blogger own announced to facilitate it's potential - their pole furthermore shows us how the docked widget fasten factory.

And if your blog already has a dynamic guide, they've added a a small number of gadgets representing you.   For my test blog, this was Followers, Archive About me and Subscribe - I'm not convinced if these are the single ones, or it was based on my design or the blog went dynamic.

How to add a implement to a blog with a dynamic guide:

This is truly like tallying a implement to a blog with a designer or design guide, ie:

•     Go to the Layout tab   (Design > Page Elements, if you're using pre-Sept-2011-Blogger)
•     Click Add A Gadget.
•     Choose your implement, and configure it if compulsory.
•     (NB Blogger appear to be converting all the existing implement setup screens to the new-interface-look-and-feel, so don't be surprised if the buttons et cetera inside the implement parameter windows look different)
•     Preview to check it's ok
•     Click Save Arrangement.

It's not absolute yet:

The design editor window looks somewhat curious, in post-Sept-2011-Blogger anyway:

Extra importantly, Blogger's publication says

    Gadgets supported in Dynamic Views at this time include: Blog Archive, Followers, Labels, Profile, Subscribe (a modern implement - without human intervention offering if either Follow By Email or Subscription installed), and Link List.

So rejection HTML, rejection AdSense, rejection Blogroll (except you can nominate your own with the Link List), Statistics, Slideshows, Polls, et cetera ... Yet.    To nominate matters worse, there's nothing to tell you come again? Gadgets you cannot add:  You plunk them in, but they're truly not at hand as soon as you save and look next to the blog.

But a quantity of of them may well be converted into offered, if Blogger can suppose improbable how to place with contained by the type of universe they're using representing gadgets on dynamic views, wherever we don't really own a sidebar.   And until followed by, the following section from my real thing pole still applies.



In the meantime:

The October publication did fair how you can make specially the insignia of your dynamic-template blog.

Southern Speakers has been publishing lots of how-to in sequence around how you can format dynamic blog elements by tallying CSS rules - his for the most part contemporary pole is around how to remove static bleep titles.   He has furthermore described a way to plunk gadgets to facilitate you can comprehend the code representing into a bleep - this explanation is specifically representing the Followers implement, but can be useful to other code too, provided you can comprehend the code.

And if you would like, you can truly switch back to using your most-recent guide, and linger representing the improved version of dynamic templates to arrive.

Or you can look after cunning things, like plunk AdSense ads into your posts as an alternative.

For history's sake:

This is the body of my real thing pole.   It's not actual several more, but I would like to keep it now, in argument I need to consume a quantity of of this text agaon - or so you can distinguish how much better things are promptly.

    The Full Story:Google told us in much-lamented October 2011 to facilitate they're working on making this potential.   They haven't held what time they expect to own this offered.   If we're really auspicious it will be "one generation very soon" (and boy will I own a red mug if they announce how to look after it tomorrow!)

    I suspect to facilitate it's not an unproblematic issue to look after, since dynamic guide blogs are basically a absolutely discrete way of displaying your blog, using your RSS feed and (now) CSS rules, sooner than recital all the design details from the blog itself.   Providing this, along with the level of design control to facilitate fill with with Designer and Layout templates are used to, might be quite technically challenging.

    I've in print this article since I got sick of explaining "no not yet" in the help forum:  I really would like to collapse fill with at hand the chock-full story, but conclusion the link to to facilitate October publication all stage was a anguish.   Now I can truly link to this.

    But optimistically I'll be able to absolutely re-write it, very soon  :-)    Giving unconstructive answers isn't virtually as satisfying as explaining how to look after things.