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June 01, 2023

Blogger is an American online content management system founded in 1999 which enables its users to write blog with time-stamped entries. Pyra Labs developed it before being acquired by Google in 2003. Google hosts the blogs, which can be accessed through a subdomain of blogspot.com. Blogs can also be accessed from a user-owned custom domain (such as www.example.com) by using DNS facilities to direct a domain to Google's servers.[1][3][4] A user can have up to 100 blogs or websites per account.[5]

Blogger
Type of site
Blog host
Available inSee below
Country of originUnited States of America
Area servedWorldwide
OwnerGoogle
Founder(s)Evan Williams, Meg Hourihan
URLwww.blogger.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional, Free
LaunchedAugust 23, 1999; 23 years ago (1999-08-23)[1]
Current statusActive
Written inPython[2]

Google Blogger also enabled users to publish blogs and websites to their own web hosting server via FTP until May 1, 2010. All such blogs and websites had to be redirected to a blogspot.com subdomain or point their own domain to Google's servers via DNS.[6] Google Blogger has a wide international user base and is available in more than 60 languages.[citation needed] By 2023 it enjoyed a resurgence in popularity in the United States[7] due to it being used as a training tool for text-to-image modeling.[8]

History

Pyra Labs launched Blogger on August 23, 1999. It is credited with popularizing the format as one of the first dedicated blog-publishing tools.[citation needed] Pyra Labs was purchased by Google in February 2003 for an undisclosed amount. Premium features, which Pyra had actually offered for a fee, were made free as a result of the takeover. Evan Williams, a co-founder of Pyra Labs, left Google in October 2004. Picasa was acquired by Google in 2004, and Picasa and its photo-sharing service Hello were incorporated into Blogger, enabling users to upload images to their blogs. [9]

Blogger underwent a major redesign on May 9, 2004, which included web standards-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and email posting. Blogger's new version, codenamed "Invader," was released in beta alongside the gold update on August 14, 2006. Users were moved to Google servers, and new features such as interface language in French, Italian, German, and Spanish were added.[10] In December 2006, this new version of Blogger was taken out of beta. By May 2007, Blogger had completely moved over to Google-operated servers. Blogger was ranked 16 on the list of top 50 domains in terms of number of unique visitors in 2007.[11]

On February 24, 2015, Blogger announced that as of late March it would no longer allow its users to post sexually explicit content, unless the nudity offers "substantial public benefit," for example in "artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific contexts."[12] On February 28, 2015, accounting for severe backlash from long-term bloggers, Blogger reversed its decision on banning sexual content, going back to the previous policy that allowed explicit images and videos if the blog was marked as "adult".[13]

Redesign

As part of the Blogger redesign in 2006, all blogs associated with a user's Google Account were migrated to Google servers. Blogger claims that the service is now more reliable because of the quality of the servers.[14]

Along with the migration to Google servers, several new features were introduced, including label organization, a drag-and-drop template editing interface, reading permissions (to create private blogs) and new Web feed options. Furthermore, blogs are updated dynamically, as opposed to rewriting HTML files.

In a version of the service called Blogger in Draft,[15] new features are tested before being released to all users. New features are discussed in the service's official blog.[16] In September 2009, Google introduced new features into Blogger as part of its tenth-anniversary celebration. The features included a new interface for post editing, improved image handling, Raw HTML Conversion, and other Google Docs-based implementations, including:

  • Adding location to posts via geotagging.
  • Post time-stamping at publication, not at original creation.
  • Vertical re-sizing of the post editor. The size is saved in a per-user, per-blog preference.
  • Link editing in compose mode.
  • Full Safari 3 support and fidelity on both Windows and macOS.
  • New Preview dialog that shows posts in a width and font size approximating what is seen in the published view.
  • Placeholder image for tags so that embeds are movable in compose mode.
  • New toolbar with Google aesthetics, faster loading time, and "undo" and "redo" buttons, also added the full justification button, a strike-through button, and an expanded color palette.

In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor.[17] In March 2017, Blogger released new designs like Soho, Contempo, Emporio, Notable, and call them as Theme, not templates.[18]

In March 2017, Blogger released new designs like Soho, Contempo, Emporio, Notable, and call them as Theme, not templates. In 2020, Google Blogger slowly introduced an improved web experience for Blogger. They moved everyone to the new interface starting in late June, many Blogger creators see the new interface become their default. Blogger is now responsive on the web, making it easier to use on mobile devices in addition to having a new look.[19]

Available languages

As of late 2016, Blogger is available in these 60 languages: Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Basque, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), English (United States), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Spain), Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Zulu.[20]

Country-specific Blogger addresses

In February 2013, Blogger began integrating user blogs with multiple country-specific URLs. For example, exampleuserblogname.blogspot.com would be automatically redirected to exampleuserblogname.blogspot.ca in Canada, exampleuserblogname.blogspot.co.uk in the United Kingdom. Blogger explained that by doing this they could manage the blog content more locally so if there was any objectionable material that violated a particular country's laws they could remove and block access to that blog for that country through the assigned ccTLD while retaining access through other ccTLD addresses and the default Blogspot.com URL. If a blog using a country-specific URL was removed it is still technically possible to access the blog through Google's No Country Redirect override by entering the URL using the regular Blogspot.com address and adding /ncr after .com.[21] In May 2018, Blogger stopped redirecting to ccTLDs and country-specific URLs would now redirect to the default Blogspot.com addresses.[22]

Available designs

Blogger allows its users to choose from multiple templates and then customize them. Users may also choose to create their own templates using CSS. The new design template, known as "Dynamic View", was introduced on August 31, 2011[23] with Dynamic Views being introduced on September 27, 2011.[24] It is built with AJAX, HTML5, and CSS3. The time for loading is 40 percent shorter than traditional templates, and allows user to present blog in seven different ways: classic, flipcard, magazine, mosaic, sidebar, snapshot, and timeslide. Readers still have the option to choose preferable views when the blog owner has set a default view.[25] Some of the widgets (e.g., Labels, Profile, Link List, Subscription Links, Followers and Blog Archive etc.) are available for Dynamic Views; other templates are chosen by the blogger.

In April 2013, Blogger updated its HTML template editor that has some improvements to make it easy for the users to edit the blog's source code. The editor was updated with syntax highlight, number line and jump-to-widget button for ease of editing the code.

Integration

  • AdSense comes optional for each blog, assumming that the parent account is in good standing.
  • "Blogger for Word" is an add-in for Microsoft Word which allows users to save a Microsoft Word document directly to a Blogger blog, as well as edit their posts both on- and offline. As of January 2007, Google says "Blogger for Word is not currently compatible with the new version of Blogger", and they state no decision has been made about supporting it with the new Blogger.[26] However, Microsoft Office 2007 adds native support for a variety of blogging systems, including Blogger.[27]
  • Blogger also started integration with Amazon Associates in December 2009, as a service to generate revenue.[28] It was not publicly announced, but by September 2011 it appeared that all integration options had been removed and that the partnership had ended.[29]
  • Open Live Writer (formerly Windows Live Writer, originally part of the Windows Live suite) can publish directly to Blogger.[27][30]

Blogger on mobile devices

Blogger has launched mobile applications for users with mobile devices. Users can post and edit blogs, and also share photos and links on Blogger through their mobile devices. Not only advanced mobile devices, such as smartphones, are being considered, since users can also post blogs via traditional cell phones by SMS and MMS.[31]

 
Screenshot of Blogger app on iOS

The major two mobile operating systems that Blogger focuses on are Android and iOS.[32][33] Blogger allow users to edit blogs anywhere through the app and either publish the blogs or save them as drafts. Quick navigation from posts and drafts is accessible from a list. Users can attach photos by taking a picture with a Blogger app or selecting pictures from their photo galleries.[34] Sharing current locations on posts is also possible by tabbing My Location bar and adding locations. Users can also share photos and links directly to Blogger.

Blogger also provides dynamic mobile views for the blogging compatibility with mobile devices and smartphones. They enhance the readability accuracy on these smart devices. But changing a blog theme on the blogger app remains an open issue for the users.

Blocking

Blogger has been blocked throughout the various periods of time in the following countries:

Blocking of *.blogspot.com domains by keyword-based Internet filtering systems is also encountered due to the domain containing the substring "gspot"; however, this can be alleviated by excluding the "blogspot.com" section of the URL from the keyword-based Internet filtering whilst the *. section of the URL is exposed to keyword-based Internet filtering.

Limitations

Blogger has the following limitations on content storage and bandwidth, per user account:[47]

  • Blog description – 500 characters max.
  • Blog post description - 150 characters max.
  • Number of blogs – 100 blogs per account
  • Number of labels – 5,000 unique labels per blog (an increase from the original 2,000), 20 unique labels per post (with at most 200 characters)
  • Number of pictures – Your photos will be stored in Google Album Archive,[48] where account storage space is shared with Gmail and Drive. Images uploaded through Blogger do not have a quota, but pixel quality may be compressed.[49]
  • Number of videos - The service comes standard with the YouTube API for uploading videos, but with a limited feature set (e.g., no 3D, virtual reality, chaptering, or livestreaming). Uploads are capped at 100 MB per upload, which can include multiple videos whose sizes total no more than that combined. Also, resolution quality drops for high-definition playback.
  • Number of posts – There is no limit on the number of posts (comments included[50]) one can have in one blog. However, a maximum of 100 posts can be created or published per day.[51]
  • Size of webpages – Individual pages (the main page of a blog or archive pages) are limited to 1 MB.
  • Size of pictures – Depends. If posted via Blogger Mobile, limited 250 KB per picture;[52] posted pictures are scaled to 1600px[citation needed].
  • Number of Pages – There is no limit on the number of Pages you can have on one blog.
  • Mobile URL: Blogger service serve m=1 URL parameter for mobile devices, and this can't be removed.[53]
  • Team members (those who can write to a blog) – 100 invitations per blog.
  • Favicon – Any square image less than 100 KB.
  • Trashbin - deleted posts are held automatically for 90 days before either permanent removal or restoration.
  • Account suspension: if a site is violating any terms of service, it may be suspended by Blogger without any notice. Repeated violations may lead to Google account suspension.

On February 18, 2010,[54] Blogger introduced "auto-pagination," which limited the number of posts that could be displayed on each page, often causing the number of posts on the main page to be less than that specified by the user and leading to a hostile response from some users.[55][56]

Private blogs are limited to only 100 members.

Support

The official support channel is the Blogger Product Forum.[57] This online discussion forum, delivered using Google Groups, serves Blogger users of varying experience, and receives some monitoring from Google staff. "Product Experts," formerly known as "Top contributors," are community-members nominated by the Google staff who enjoy additional privileges including managing discussions and direct access to Google staff. There is likely to be a top contributor or other knowledgeable person reading the forum almost all the time.

A number of people, including some top contributors, run personal blogs where they offer advice and post information about common problems.

StackExchange's Web Applications forum has a tag for "blogger", which is used for questions about various blogging platforms, including Blogger.[58]

See also

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This section needs to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information December 2022 Some of this article s listed sources may not be reliable Please help this article by looking for better more reliable sources Unreliable citations may be challenged or deleted December 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message Blogger is an American online content management system founded in 1999 which enables its users to write blog with time stamped entries Pyra Labs developed it before being acquired by Google in 2003 Google hosts the blogs which can be accessed through a subdomain of blogspot com Blogs can also be accessed from a user owned custom domain such as www example com by using DNS facilities to direct a domain to Google s servers 1 3 4 A user can have up to 100 blogs or websites per account 5 BloggerType of siteBlog hostAvailable inSee belowCountry of originUnited States of AmericaArea servedWorldwideOwnerGoogleFounder s Evan Williams Meg HourihanURLwww wbr blogger wbr comCommercialYesRegistrationOptional FreeLaunchedAugust 23 1999 23 years ago 1999 08 23 1 Current statusActiveWritten inPython 2 Google Blogger also enabled users to publish blogs and websites to their own web hosting server via FTP until May 1 2010 All such blogs and websites had to be redirected to a blogspot com subdomain or point their own domain to Google s servers via DNS 6 Google Blogger has a wide international user base and is available in more than 60 languages citation needed By 2023 it enjoyed a resurgence in popularity in the United States 7 due to it being used as a training tool for text to image modeling 8 Contents 1 History 1 1 Redesign 1 2 Available languages 1 3 Country specific Blogger addresses 2 Available designs 3 Integration 4 Blogger on mobile devices 5 Blocking 6 Limitations 7 Support 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksHistoryPyra Labs launched Blogger on August 23 1999 It is credited with popularizing the format as one of the first dedicated blog publishing tools citation needed Pyra Labs was purchased by Google in February 2003 for an undisclosed amount Premium features which Pyra had actually offered for a fee were made free as a result of the takeover Evan Williams a co founder of Pyra Labs left Google in October 2004 Picasa was acquired by Google in 2004 and Picasa and its photo sharing service Hello were incorporated into Blogger enabling users to upload images to their blogs 9 Blogger underwent a major redesign on May 9 2004 which included web standards compliant templates individual archive pages for posts comments and email posting Blogger s new version codenamed Invader was released in beta alongside the gold update on August 14 2006 Users were moved to Google servers and new features such as interface language in French Italian German and Spanish were added 10 In December 2006 this new version of Blogger was taken out of beta By May 2007 Blogger had completely moved over to Google operated servers Blogger was ranked 16 on the list of top 50 domains in terms of number of unique visitors in 2007 11 On February 24 2015 Blogger announced that as of late March it would no longer allow its users to post sexually explicit content unless the nudity offers substantial public benefit for example in artistic educational documentary or scientific contexts 12 On February 28 2015 accounting for severe backlash from long term bloggers Blogger reversed its decision on banning sexual content going back to the previous policy that allowed explicit images and videos if the blog was marked as adult 13 Redesign As part of the Blogger redesign in 2006 all blogs associated with a user s Google Account were migrated to Google servers Blogger claims that the service is now more reliable because of the quality of the servers 14 Along with the migration to Google servers several new features were introduced including label organization a drag and drop template editing interface reading permissions to create private blogs and new Web feed options Furthermore blogs are updated dynamically as opposed to rewriting HTML files In a version of the service called Blogger in Draft 15 new features are tested before being released to all users New features are discussed in the service s official blog 16 In September 2009 Google introduced new features into Blogger as part of its tenth anniversary celebration The features included a new interface for post editing improved image handling Raw HTML Conversion and other Google Docs based implementations including Adding location to posts via geotagging Post time stamping at publication not at original creation Vertical re sizing of the post editor The size is saved in a per user per blog preference Link editing in compose mode Full Safari 3 support and fidelity on both Windows and macOS New Preview dialog that shows posts in a width and font size approximating what is seen in the published view Placeholder image for tags so that embeds are movable in compose mode New toolbar with Google aesthetics faster loading time and undo and redo buttons also added the full justification button a strike through button and an expanded color palette In 2010 Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website The new post editor was criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor 17 In March 2017 Blogger released new designs like Soho Contempo Emporio Notable and call them as Theme not templates 18 In March 2017 Blogger released new designs like Soho Contempo Emporio Notable and call them as Theme not templates In 2020 Google Blogger slowly introduced an improved web experience for Blogger They moved everyone to the new interface starting in late June many Blogger creators see the new interface become their default Blogger is now responsive on the web making it easier to use on mobile devices in addition to having a new look 19 Available languages As of late 2016 Blogger is available in these 60 languages Afrikaans Amharic Arabic Basque Bengali Bulgarian Catalan Chinese Hong Kong Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English United Kingdom English United States Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician German Greek Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Italian Japanese Kannada Korean Latvian Lithuanian Malay Malayalam Marathi Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Brazil Portuguese Portugal Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Latin America Spanish Spain Swahili Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese and Zulu 20 Country specific Blogger addresses In February 2013 Blogger began integrating user blogs with multiple country specific URLs For example exampleuserblogname blogspot com would be automatically redirected to exampleuserblogname blogspot ca in Canada exampleuserblogname blogspot co uk in the United Kingdom Blogger explained that by doing this they could manage the blog content more locally so if there was any objectionable material that violated a particular country s laws they could remove and block access to that blog for that country through the assigned ccTLD while retaining access through other ccTLD addresses and the default Blogspot com URL If a blog using a country specific URL was removed it is still technically possible to access the blog through Google s No Country Redirect override by entering the URL using the regular Blogspot com address and adding ncr after com 21 In May 2018 Blogger stopped redirecting to ccTLDs and country specific URLs would now redirect to the default Blogspot com addresses 22 Available designsBlogger allows its users to choose from multiple templates and then customize them Users may also choose to create their own templates using CSS The new design template known as Dynamic View was introduced on August 31 2011 23 with Dynamic Views being introduced on September 27 2011 24 It is built with AJAX HTML5 and CSS3 The time for loading is 40 percent shorter than traditional templates and allows user to present blog in seven different ways classic flipcard magazine mosaic sidebar snapshot and timeslide Readers still have the option to choose preferable views when the blog owner has set a default view 25 Some of the widgets e g Labels Profile Link List Subscription Links Followers and Blog Archive etc are available for Dynamic Views other templates are chosen by the blogger In April 2013 Blogger updated its HTML template editor that has some improvements to make it easy for the users to edit the blog s source code The editor was updated with syntax highlight number line and jump to widget button for ease of editing the code IntegrationAdSense comes optional for each blog assumming that the parent account is in good standing Blogger for Word is an add in for Microsoft Word which allows users to save a Microsoft Word document directly to a Blogger blog as well as edit their posts both on and offline As of January 2007 update Google says Blogger for Word is not currently compatible with the new version of Blogger and they state no decision has been made about supporting it with the new Blogger 26 However Microsoft Office 2007 adds native support for a variety of blogging systems including Blogger 27 Blogger also started integration with Amazon Associates in December 2009 as a service to generate revenue 28 It was not publicly announced but by September 2011 it appeared that all integration options had been removed and that the partnership had ended 29 Open Live Writer formerly Windows Live Writer originally part of the Windows Live suite can publish directly to Blogger 27 30 Blogger on mobile devicesThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed December 2012 Learn how and when to remove this template message Blogger has launched mobile applications for users with mobile devices Users can post and edit blogs and also share photos and links on Blogger through their mobile devices Not only advanced mobile devices such as smartphones are being considered since users can also post blogs via traditional cell phones by SMS and MMS 31 Screenshot of Blogger app on iOS The major two mobile operating systems that Blogger focuses on are Android and iOS 32 33 Blogger allow users to edit blogs anywhere through the app and either publish the blogs or save them as drafts Quick navigation from posts and drafts is accessible from a list Users can attach photos by taking a picture with a Blogger app or selecting pictures from their photo galleries 34 Sharing current locations on posts is also possible by tabbing My Location bar and adding locations Users can also share photos and links directly to Blogger Blogger also provides dynamic mobile views for the blogging compatibility with mobile devices and smartphones They enhance the readability accuracy on these smart devices But changing a blog theme on the blogger app remains an open issue for the users BlockingBlogger has been blocked throughout the various periods of time in the following countries Cuba 35 Fiji 36 India some ISPs in 2012 blocking an IP address put into Federal List of Extremist Materials in 2011 37 Iran 38 Kazakhstan 39 Kyrgyzstan 40 Pakistan 41 People s Republic of China 42 Russian Federation some ISPs in 2012 blocking an IP address put into Federal List of Extremist Materials in 2011 43 Syrian Arab Republic 44 Turkey 45 Vietnam 46 Blocking of blogspot com domains by keyword based Internet filtering systems is also encountered due to the domain containing the substring gspot however this can be alleviated by excluding the blogspot com section of the URL from the keyword based Internet filtering whilst the section of the URL is exposed to keyword based Internet filtering LimitationsBlogger has the following limitations on content storage and bandwidth per user account 47 Blog description 500 characters max Blog post description 150 characters max Number of blogs 100 blogs per account Number of labels 5 000 unique labels per blog an increase from the original 2 000 20 unique labels per post with at most 200 characters Number of pictures Your photos will be stored in Google Album Archive 48 where account storage space is shared with Gmail and Drive Images uploaded through Blogger do not have a quota but pixel quality may be compressed 49 Number of videos The service comes standard with the YouTube API for uploading videos but with a limited feature set e g no 3D virtual reality chaptering or livestreaming Uploads are capped at 100 MB per upload which can include multiple videos whose sizes total no more than that combined Also resolution quality drops for high definition playback Number of posts There is no limit on the number of posts comments included 50 one can have in one blog However a maximum of 100 posts can be created or published per day 51 Size of webpages Individual pages the main page of a blog or archive pages are limited to 1 MB Size of pictures Depends If posted via Blogger Mobile limited 250 KB per picture 52 posted pictures are scaled to 1600px citation needed Number of Pages There is no limit on the number of Pages you can have on one blog Mobile URL Blogger service serve m 1 URL parameter for mobile devices and this can t be removed 53 Team members those who can write to a blog 100 invitations per blog Favicon Any square image less than 100 KB Trashbin deleted posts are held automatically for 90 days before either permanent removal or restoration Account suspension if a site is violating any terms of service it may be suspended by Blogger without any notice Repeated violations may lead to Google account suspension On February 18 2010 54 Blogger introduced auto pagination which limited the number of posts that could be displayed on each page often causing the number of posts on the main page to be less than that specified by the user and leading to a hostile response from some users 55 56 Private blogs are limited to only 100 members SupportThe official support channel is the Blogger Product Forum 57 This online discussion forum delivered using Google Groups serves Blogger users of varying experience and receives some monitoring from Google staff Product Experts formerly known as Top contributors are community members nominated by the Google staff who enjoy additional privileges including managing discussions and direct access to Google staff There is likely to be a top contributor or other knowledgeable person reading the forum almost all the time A number of people including some top contributors run personal blogs where they offer advice and post information about common problems StackExchange s Web Applications forum has a tag for blogger which is used for questions about various blogging platforms including Blogger 58 See also Internet portalList of Google products Niche 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