Singpolyma - Technical Blog: Blogger Calendar

2006-12-19

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If you don't use del.icio.us and want more posts showing up in your calendar try appending ?max-results=999 to your feed URL. So it will look like:
http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full?max-results=999

So you're not satisfied with just an archive list? You've perhaps switched to BETA and even the hierarchal menu just isn't cool enough? Well, you've come to the right place.

This hack allows you to generate a calendar of your posts for people to browse inline in your blog! This hack works with either Blogger Classic or Blogger BETA and, best of all, is one of my easiest hacks to install yet!

Just go to the setup page. Enter your feed URL (do NOT use a FeedBurner feed, it tends to mess things up) and your blog title. Click generate. Follow the instructions.

Now, if you use mine (click the calendar next to the archives box in my sidebar) you'll note that I have posts in the calendar going all the way back to forever it seems. Your probably only has this month's. Well, that is just one extra hack, but there's a catch -- you have to be one of those who posts all blog entries to del.icio.us (I know, the BETA people no longer have a GM for that, I'm working on it.)

Go to the full del.icio.us feed setup page (I won't steal your password!), enter your del.icio.us username and password in the upper form. Click Go. Go back to the setup page. Enter your username (and optional anchor tag) in the lower form. Click Go. Use the contents of your address bar as your feed URL for the calendar instead of your normal feed.

A translation of this page exists. Not sure on the language of that page, but thought I'd give them a link.

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Comment at 20 December, 2006 07:25 by kca

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Funny that u just made it, because i was reading the Google calendar doc in order to see if it was possible to create a widget which could combine the feed of each posts and the calendar^^
Comment at 14 January, 2007 18:28 by tad

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this is a really nice calendar. is there a way to make it so that it is flat in the blog rather than a pop-up? thanks!
Comment at 15 January, 2007 09:48 by Singpolyma

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@tad -- If you want it direct inline just copy the IFRAME part of the code generated into your blog and leave the rest :)
Comment at 15 January, 2007 21:26 by tad

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perfect, thanks a bunch!
Comment at 22 January, 2007 23:03 by tad

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hello again
the calendar on my blog is having the peculiar issue that the dates of some posts (not all) don't show up when i pull the calendar up. do you have any idea what might be causing that? thanks again
Comment at 23 January, 2007 14:51 by Singpolyma

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@tad -- do you mean that some of your older posts are not showing up? This is a known issue. Please check out this forum post.
Comment at 23 January, 2007 23:14 by tad

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some of them show up and some don't, but it's not like all before a certain date don't show up. it's sporadic, sometimes my posts show up and sometimes they don't. and actually it's not like the posts aren't there--when i hover over the date, the post title shows up normally...it's just otherwise the cell looks completely empty (no day of the month even)
Comment at 24 January, 2007 08:25 by Singpolyma

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Hmm... weird... Well, I would verify that those posts are in the feed you gave the wizard (the ?max=999 thing) and if they are, go to that forum thread and report it as a bug.

I didn't write the calendar generator, only the code to make it play with Blogger.
Comment at 24 January, 2007 17:33 by tad

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Okay, I'll see if I can get a fix on that forum. Thanks again for your help. It works perfectly on my other blog, which is where I really wanted it.
Comment at 03 February, 2007 04:47 by jayne

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where you say: appending ?max-results=999 to your feed URL.
my feed is
http://____.blogspot.com/atom.xml

can you point me in a direction to have the atom.xml into a feed.
(your hack works but i wanted more than just a few recent days showing in the calandar)
thanks so much, and i enjoy wandering through your pages!
Comment at 06 February, 2007 17:07 by Singpolyma

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@jayne -- /atom.xml was the URL format on the old Blogger -- if you are still on Blogger Classic the ?max=999 will do nothing. You must upgrade to the new Blogger for that part to work :)

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