Blogger Popular Post Widget + Resize Thumbnail Image With Real Size

The official Blogger popular post widget, comes with 72x72(px) square thumbnail. It's believed that many users want to resize the thumbnail as desired, such as 100x100(px) in square, or 200x120(px) in rectangle.

You might find some CSS tricks from the internet, which can resize the thumbnail. Changing the width / height of an image by CSS can only make the image looks larger, but the real size of the image doesn't change. Therefore, the image will look unclear(maybe look like mosaic).

I made this tool which can resize the Blogger popular post thumbnail in real size, and it also includes some other features as below. If you would like to install this tool directly, please jump to "II. Preparation".

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How to Backup Blog Posts Automatically -- by IFTTT

All Blogger blog posts are stored in cloud storage. Why do we still need to back up the posts? Is the cloud platform not safe? As Blogger blogs belong to Google, it's believed that Blogger is more trustful than other blog platforms.

Rather than the errors happen at the cloud end, it's more possible that the errors might happen at our end. Sometimes we might delete our Blogger posts accidentally. Or, when editing the post, due to incautious operation, we might save the wrong content which overwrite the original content.

so, we do need the tool to back up blog posts automatically, to avoid all kinds of accidents. I'll introduce some solutions in this post, including the best one -- IFTTT.

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How to Customize Blogger Template﹍(1) Skills of Adding Comments for Codes

There are 3 posts for this series of articles "How to Customize Blogger Template", to help readers find the codes quickly in correct area in Blogger template when editing.

These series posts will summarize the codes of each important section in Blogger template, guiding readers how to use them, how to make proper comments. Thus you could save lots of time when searching for the codes you need.

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