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Show/Hide Blogger and Google+ Comments System With Toggle

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Many Blogger site owners received the new Google+ Comment System pretty negatively because it forced all commenting users to create their own Google+ account before they were able to write a comment. The Google+ Comment System on Blogger was convenient to writers, but discouraged many users from continuing to comment on blogs because they simply didn't want to use Google+. For those that did use Google+ to make a comment, Blogger would never email you and notify you that someone left a comment; you could go days or weeks without ever realizing that you never responded to a reader. In addition to frustrating your audience, the Google+ Comment System on Blogger depended upon the URL of your blog post. By changing your URLs or moving around your blog posts internally, you run the risk of losing every one of your comments that was placed using Google+. Previously, the only way to solve this problem was to disable the comment system through your account settings, thus giving up your abi...

How to Enable Google Plus Comments in Blogger

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How to Enable Google Plus Comments in Blogger Long time ago, Google proudly announced their new integrated commenting system which is now available for users who have created a Google+ profile and connected it with their Blogspot blogs. This way, Blogger users will be able to use Google+ as a commenting system for their blogs, while comments from Google+ will automatically appear on their blogs. For those who haven't yet upgraded the Blogger profile to a Google+ profile, here's a tutorial on how to associate a blog to a Google plus page . Once you have connected a blog to a Google+ profile, you'll have a new " Use Google+ Comments on this blog " setting on the Google+ tab of your blog. To enable the Google plus commenting system, just check the box next to this setting: As soon as you've enabled the feature through your Blogger Dashboard, you'll have the following features: - Threaded commenting system : the threaded system will allow a reader to reply to ...

Add a Cool Style to Blogger Threaded/Nested Comments

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If you need a fresh style to the threaded comments of a standard Blogger template, here's a simple CSS that will help you to apply a different background, make your avatars rounded, add a border with rounded corners and a triangle which is actually an HTML entity to get that speech bubble look on your comments. You can see a demo here . To have this style in your comments, all you need to do is to paste the below code inside the CSS part of the template, which is between <b:skin> and </b:skin> Styling Simple Nested Comments with CSS Step 1. From the Blogger Dashboard , go to Template and press the Edit HTML button Step 2. Click anywhere inside the code area and press the CTRL + F keys to open the search box: Step 3. Paste or type the following tag inside the search box and hit Enter to find it ]]></b:skin> Step 4. Just above ]]></b:skin> add this CSS: .comments .comment-block { background: #F9F9F9 ; color: #555 ; box-shadow: 0 4px 10px #EEEEEE ;...