5 Major Disadvantages of using HTTPS in Blogger

Now when Google has provided the option of HTTPS encryption for blogspot blogs with non-custom domains, are you ready to turn on HTTPS on for your blog? But before that it is really important to understand the risks, complexity and SEO costs involved in switching to HTTPS. In our last post we discussed the differences between http and https and we also explained that less...

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Retrieve Content Excerpt From Blogger JSON Feed API

We have received some great feedback from all of you since the day we started this step-by-step tutorial series on extracting data from Blogger JSON Data API. So far we have discussed the basics of extracting data from a JSON file and we succeeded in developing a recent Posts widget sorted by Label. Today we will learn how to extract excerpt of your Posts. You will be able...

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Site Feed Settings - Choose 'Full' or 'Short'?

Before proceeding towards extracting description snippet or summary snippet from JSON feed, it is really important to first understand what does the Blogspot Site feed tool for feed syndication actually do. Site feed setting options effect how your Feed structure is built and displayed and what data is contained inside the { } summary or { } content objects. Your JSON feed...

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Does Switching To HTTPS Makes Sense for Blogs?

On August 2014 Google took everyone by surprise when they introduced turning on HTTPS as a ranking signal. Which means any site or blog which has shifted all its content from an insecure HTTP  connection to a secure HTTPS connection will get a slight boost in their search ranking. But wait! that is not the end of the story. Making this shifting is the most complex shift...

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Extract Post Titles Specified by Label via JSON

Now that you have learnt how to extract Post titles from a JSON feed file and then print the results, its time to exercise how to display a list of posts specified by Label or print only those post titles related to a specific category in a blogger blog. The steps are extremely simple and you would really enjoy the various possibilities of extracting data from blogspot...

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Display "Post Titles" using Blogger JSON Feed

In Part#4 we discussed how to extract "Labels List" data from Blogger JSON feed API and print this list with hyperlinks. Today we will extract Post Titles from BlogSpot JSON feed by parsing the data in JavaScript, in other words we are creating the "Recent Posts widget" that will only display titles. Exact same approach and technique will be used. We are trying to make sure...

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Display "Label List" using Blogger JSON Feeds

In Part3 you learned how a simple JavaScript technique is used to fetch data from a blogger JSON file and you also exercised a simple example of retrieving the total posts count published by a blog. Today we will discuss how to print the "Total Label List" created inside a blog to categorize content. You will be able to display all Category Links or Label links used by a blogspot...

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Extracting Data From Blogger JSON Feeds using JavaScript

In part2 you learned how to view non-readable JSON code in friendly format, today we will start discussing the scripting section. Here you will learn how to use JavaScript to extract information related to a specific Blogspot blog from its JSON Feed file and how simple JavaScript logics, loops, iterations and built-in functions can help you easily retrieve JSON Feeds from...

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