Most Frequent Blogger Questions: Show No "About Me"

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MFBQ
Most Frequent Blogger Questions

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This blog outgrew the original intended 20 Questions & Answers and is now approximately 210 Q&A. I never did figure out which were the 20 most important ones.

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Kick-starting The Blog
1. Refresh (F5) or Ctrl-F5 2. Clear cache (delete temporary Internet files) and cookies in Tools-Internet Options. 3. Add a question mark to the end of your blog's internet address in the address box and see if it will show the latest update. (Can also be done with other people's url's in the address window.) 4. Republish (if in classic Blogger) 5. Reboot 6. Log out and log back in again (may change to an untroubled server) 7. Change or reload the browser (IE, Firefox, others) 8. Try a different computer, or see if you can duplicate the problem or avoid it in a post in another blog (make a test blog, whether in the same account or a second account, that's not public so nobody will see you screwing around!) ---Not necessary to do all of these at once!---

Kick-starting The Blog

1. Refresh (F5) or Ctrl-F5
2. Clear cache (delete temporary Internet files) and cookies in Tools-Internet Options.
3. Add a question mark to the end of your blog's internet address in the address box and see if it will show the latest update. (Can also be done with other people's url's in the address window.)
4. Republish (if in classic Blogger)
5. Reboot
6. Log out and log back in again (may change to an untroubled server)
7. Change or reload the browser (IE, Firefox, others)
8. Try a different computer, or see if you can duplicate the problem or avoid it in a post in another blog (make a test blog, whether in the same account or a second account, that's not public so nobody will see you screwing around!)

---Not necessary to do all of these at once!---

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Sunday, July 22, 2007

Show No "About Me"

Show no "About Me",
Show only the "View My Complete Profile".


1. Go to the Layout section. 2. Click on Add Page Element. 3. Add it, if absent, or click on Edit Profile. 4. Click on Share my profile. 5. Do not click on About Me. 6. You may want to unclick the Show Location. If unsure, worry about it later.

This should allow most of the About Me to remain unseen, while your readers still have the View My Complete Profile to click on.

See also: Make Your Own Blogger Profile

Origins

Mama Mouse,
who used to participate in the Help Group and is sorely missed, suggested the idea of stickyposts a good while before Blogger began "flagging" long-term messages with a Tack symbol among the other posts by mere mortals, which made me think at the time of a bulletin board with stickyposts. There's still no way to stick them to the top of Blogger Help Group if you're not Blogger, so it turns out that the only way to do any good is to set myself up over here as an overbearing small-time knowitall or ad hoc advisor. Just another impudent putz who started a blog to explain how Blogger works and some of how it doesn't work!

Sometimes my true Rat nature seeps into the answers like a urine stain (like "What the HELL do you want to know THAT for?"), though mostly it doesn't. I try to keep it respectable here, but that's difficult...

Samuel Johnson: "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it."

We here at Most Fiendish Blogger Questions salute you for getting this far!

MFBQ