Thursday, July 29, 2010

Crucial Blogger Shortcomings

The following are all sorely needed:
  • A "Report Spam" link on every comment left on a blog post
  • Captcha forced for blog authors as well
  • A comment spam filter (8/13/2010: IT EXISTS NOW YAY)
  • Links to moderated commenters' profiles from the comment moderation panel.  Also, a link to their blogs, when applicable.  The emails it sends about moderated comments have profile links...
  • A link directly to the dashboard from the navbar even when you're looking at your own blog
  • The Quick Edit link in a post should use Blogger in Draft if the user has it enabled
  • Templated HTML for inserting an image into a post
  • Ability for custom theme CSS to use theme variables
  • Toggle for target="_blank" on links
  • Ability to add extra formatting buttons that apply custom CSS classes to post content via span tags
  • A setting to specify custom CSS to be loaded in the post editor, for use with custom CSS classes applied to post content via span tags
  • The Twitter gadget needs to show retweets and link whatever #thesearecalled
  • A proper trackback system compatible with other blog software
  • The post preview click catching element needs to be positioned with position: fixed; rather than position: absolute;, and the diagonal "Preview" text should be below it, not above it.
  • Tweaks to the editor so that pressing Enter has the desired effect on the first try, and to eliminate the space it puts at the end of a line.
  • Ability to preview the short version of a post using a jump break
  • Post editor formatting button for underline
  • Some emoticons or something (should be the same height as the text so they don't mess with line spacing)

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I moderate comments because when Blogger originally implemented a spam filter it wouldn't work without comment moderation enabled. So if your comment doesn't show up right away, that would be why.