Blogates FAQs

Go to your flickr page browse and search your favorite image or your own photos. Look at the bottom and you will see a small feed icon. Copy the location of the latest feed.

If you are unsure – click the Latest link. You will see a page full of text:

Copy the address in the browser bar. That is the address you put in your flickr widget.

Insert your flickr feed into flickr widget
Browse to your design, click Widget and add flickr widget into your sidebar.  Edit the widget with your feed link and save it. Done.

We provide this option to keep you from having to enter your user name and password every time you return. We’ve added this feature solely for your benefit, to save you time and to keep you from having to remember yet another password!

What happens if I click the “Remember Me” box?
By checking this box, you’ll stay logged in for up to 2 weeks or until you logged out.

If you check the “remember me” box, we’ll put a small cookie on your computer that will let us know who you are next time you login again. Each time you return to the admin panel, you will be logged in automatically. (If you use a different computer, you will need to log in again.) This cookie does nothing more than “remember” you to the website.

What if I share my computer with others?
If other people use your PC, you may not want to use “remember me” . If you do, then they will automatically be logged in to all of your blog admin panel. In this case, you may prefer simply to log in at each visit.

What happens if I do not check the Remember Me box?
If you do not check the box, we won’t put a cookie on your PC. However, the next time you visit you will need to enter your login name and password again.

OpenID eliminates the need for multiple usernames across different websites, simplifying your online experience.

You get to choose the OpenID Provider that best meets your needs and most importantly that you trust. At the same time, your OpenID can stay with you, no matter which Provider you move to. And best of all, the OpenID technology is not proprietary and is completely free.

How do I get an OpenID?

Surprise! You already have one. if you have a blog with Blogates.com. Your OpenID is the URL of your blog, for example: http://patrick.bloggles.info/

Where can I use my OpenID?

You can use your OpenID on any one of a growing number of sites (nearly ten-thousand) which support OpenID. If one of your favorite sites doesn’t support OpenID yet, ask them when they will!

Here are some places you can visit to see where you can use your OpenID to log in today:

• myOpenID Site Directory
• The OpenID Directory

Forgotten username and/or password

If you’ve forgotten your Blogates account information, you can recover it by clicking the Lost your password? on the login page. Or, you can go to this page:

https://bloggles.info/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword

Password recovery email not received

Check your Spam/Junk/Bulk Mail folder to see if the message was mis-routed.
Try entering several email addresses in case you didn’t use your primary one for Blogates.
Try recovering your username instead of your password. You may have mis-remembered your username and could be sending password recovery emails to another user. (We recommend trying this, even if you think you are sure of your username.)

Forgotten email address

If you can’t remember which email address you used when you created your account, start by making a list of all your addresses (including old ones that you might have used when you signed up). Then, enter each address, one by one, into the username recovery form. Most will give you an error, until you hit the one that you actually used, in which case you’ll see a message indicating that your username has been sent.

Add contact form to allowed your reader to send an email to you. Just write a new page and insert {mailform} to the page where you want the form to be inserted.

Your email address is never shown, and the sender never learns it. All the messages people send to you through the contact form are filtered through Akismet.

My blog has multiple authors. Who gets the email?
You are allowed to change your email address at Options Tab, just login your admin panel and change it. If you wish you use the Multi Mail functions, you can enter any number of addresses separated by commas.

Wrap your code in these tags: [sourcecode language='css']…[/sourcecode]. Do not copy and paste this code – write it out (You can replace the language with “css” with the language that you are writing in. Currently we support syntax highlighting for the following language codes:

C++ — cpp, c, c++
C# — c#, c-sharp, csharp
CSS — css
Delphi — delphi, pascal
Java — java
JavaScript — js, jscript, javascript
PHP — php
Python — py, python
Ruby — rb, ruby, rails, ror
SQL — sql
VB — vb, vb.net
XML/HTML — xml, html, xhtml, xslt

Example:

#content .post-title a { border-bottom-width: 0; }
#content .post p.img { float: left; margin: 0 15px 0 0; }
#content .post p.img img { padding: 8px;}

Sorry, you cannot blog by email yet.

Yes. You are allowed to change your blog domain if you need.

Steps to change your blog’s URL (web address):
1. Log into your dashboard
2. Click Option tab
4. Click Publishing
5. Edit url

Remember to save settings.
Your success will depend on whether the URL has already been taken up or not.

NOTE: Remember, if you changed the URL of your blog, any existing incoming links will become dead link. If your blog is relatively new, that may not be a problem, but if your blog has been on the Web for a long time, your blog will already have been indexed by search engines, and you will have to wait to be indexed by the search engines all over again, and for some time, people searching for content in your blog will get links that lead nowhere. You will lose your PageRank and will have to wait a long time to get a meaningful PageRank for blog with the new URL. People may have linked to your blog or posts and all these will become dead links. Further, there have been lots of reports of bloggers who deleted their blog or changed its URL. Sploggers grab the now available URL and use them for dubious uses the worst of which is pornography. This will be extremely embarrassing for you if your family, relatives, friends, colleagues, etc., have your old URL.

So if yours is an old blog, think very carefully before you change the URL. If you insist on doing it, Please immediately try to re-register your old URL and use it to redirect the old blog to the new blog URL.

No. You cannot edit any template directly.

You can only change a theme to the extent that a theme author allows or functions added by permited. You cannot edit themes, templates, add your own html.

If you purchase the Custom CSS upgrade you can style any theme and the Sandbox theme allows a great deal of flexibility. You can also use any of the themes produced by others for the Sandbox theme.

The first step in protecting your online privacy is creating a safe password – i.e. one that a computer program or persistent individual won’t easily be able to guess in a short period of time. To help you choose a secure password, we’ve created a feature that lets you know visually how safe your password is as soon as you create it.

Tips for creating a secure password:

Make it lengthy. Your passwords should be 8 or more characters in length; 14 characters or longer is ideal.

Include punctuation marks and/or numbers.

Mix capital and lowercase letters.

Include similar looking substitutions, such as the number eight for the letter ‘B’ or ‘$’ for the letter ‘S’.

Create a unique acronym.

Things to avoid:

Do not use a password that listed as an example of how to pick a good password.

Do not use a password that contains personal information (name, society number, birth date, etc.)

Do not use sequential numbers (12345) and repeated characters (aabb66) or keyboard patterns (asdfg).

Do not make your password all numbers, uppercase letters or lowercase letters.

Do not use words or acronyms that can be found in a dictionary.

Do not using online storage.(If malicious users find these passwords stored online or on a networked computer, they have access to all your information.)

Include phonetic replacements, such as ‘Luv U’ for ‘Love you’.

Tips for keeping your password secure:

Never tell your password to anyone especially children (this includes significant others, colleague, roommates, parrots, etc.).

Never write your password down.

Never provide your password over e-mail or based on an e-mail request.

Periodically test your current password and change it to a new one.

Do not type passwords on computers that you do not control.