Put A Notice, To Your Followers, On Your Blog
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
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Thanks to the Followers rewrite - together with the Followers database cleanup - this weblog has lost over 500 Followers.
Blogger Support suggests that we should divulge a honor to our Followers, letting them know what is going on - together with why roughly mightiness hold out no longer Following.
The notice, if published equally a post, volition leave of absence to everybody subscribed to the posts newsfeed.
People who were affected past times the Followers cleanup weren't subscribed to the newsfeed, using the Reading List - together with did non lose a newsfeed subscription (nor did nosotros lose a subscriber).
If they are subscribed, they volition hold out using a 3rd political party newsfeed display - together with whatever 3rd political party display won't hold out affected past times the cleanup. Basically, the alone matter that your weblog (or mine) lost is somebody's photo, on our blogs.
Any ex Follower should run into the notice, at the elevation of the page.
If an ex Follower was subscribed to a weblog using a 3rd political party newsfeed display, that subscription notwithstanding exists. If they persuasion the blog, equally a normal reader, the honor at the elevation of the weblog should grab their eye. You tin utilise the same, on your blog.
Look at the elevation of the page, here. Do you lot run into the gadget, lead nether the header?
"If you lot did non role a Blogger / Google concern human relationship when you lot Followed this blog, years ago, you lot are in all probability non Following now."
I intend that says enough.
That is only a Featured Posts gadget, displaying my ship from Jan 2016, Dear Followers Of This Blog ....
The honor is only a Featured Posts gadget, displaying final week's post.
When I installed my Featured Posts gadget, I positioned it at the elevation of the posts column ("Main"). Having selected "Dear Followers Of This Blog ..." equally my Featured Post for the virtually hereafter (probably the side past times side calendar month or so, anyway), I renamed the gadget to "AN IMPORTANT UPDATE".
And that's all that I had to do. I genuinely installed the Featured Posts gadget several weeks ago, presently afterward Blogger Engineering released it. I had been changing it daily - together with showing a dissimilar older post, each day.
Until the Followers rewrite is finished, together with my "missing" Followers initiative of all returning, I'll in all probability leave of absence that featured ship inwards place.
You tin utilise something similar, amongst your blog.
You tin utilise something similar amongst your blog, if you lot like. Just note, equally I did past times experimenting, that the ship content, equally displayed inwards the gadget, has a express length. You'll utilise best amongst a curt together with carefully phrased opening sentence.
Oh Yes, I did tweak the gadget Title line!
.widget .post-summary h3 {
font-size: 28px;
font-weight: normal;
}
I'll in all probability instruct dorsum to "22px" afterward this episode is over - but for correct now, "28px" makes the championship "Dear Followers Of This Blog ..." stand upwards out a bit. Hopefully, roughly old Followers volition run into together with react.
You could utilise the same, amongst a Text gadget, if you lot wishing - though again, using a ship puts the honor into the posts newsfeed - equally this ship volition go. I exactly constitute the Featured Posts gadget to hold out the natural medium for an advice to my (former) Followers. As ever - YMMV.
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Thanks to the #Blogger Followers gadget cleanup / rewrite, this weblog (and many others) convey lost a pregnant amount of Followers. It's possible that the people who were dropped may re Follow - if they are aware that they ask to together with hence so.
You may honor my advice, at the elevation of my weblog page, "AN IMPORTANT UPDATE". Hopefully, roughly people who are straightaway non Following volition read the advice, either on the blog, or inwards their newsfeed reader.
Blogger Support suggests that we should divulge a honor to our Followers, letting them know what is going on - together with why roughly mightiness hold out no longer Following.
The notice, if published equally a post, volition leave of absence to everybody subscribed to the posts newsfeed.
People who were affected past times the Followers cleanup weren't subscribed to the newsfeed, using the Reading List - together with did non lose a newsfeed subscription (nor did nosotros lose a subscriber).
If they are subscribed, they volition hold out using a 3rd political party newsfeed display - together with whatever 3rd political party display won't hold out affected past times the cleanup. Basically, the alone matter that your weblog (or mine) lost is somebody's photo, on our blogs.
Any ex Follower should run into the notice, at the elevation of the page.
If an ex Follower was subscribed to a weblog using a 3rd political party newsfeed display, that subscription notwithstanding exists. If they persuasion the blog, equally a normal reader, the honor at the elevation of the weblog should grab their eye. You tin utilise the same, on your blog.
Look at the elevation of the page, here. Do you lot run into the gadget, lead nether the header?
Dear Followers Of This Blog ...
"If you lot did non role a Blogger / Google concern human relationship when you lot Followed this blog, years ago, you lot are in all probability non Following now."
I intend that says enough.
That is only a Featured Posts gadget, displaying my ship from Jan 2016, Dear Followers Of This Blog ....
The honor is only a Featured Posts gadget, displaying final week's post.
When I installed my Featured Posts gadget, I positioned it at the elevation of the posts column ("Main"). Having selected "Dear Followers Of This Blog ..." equally my Featured Post for the virtually hereafter (probably the side past times side calendar month or so, anyway), I renamed the gadget to "AN IMPORTANT UPDATE".
And that's all that I had to do. I genuinely installed the Featured Posts gadget several weeks ago, presently afterward Blogger Engineering released it. I had been changing it daily - together with showing a dissimilar older post, each day.
Until the Followers rewrite is finished, together with my "missing" Followers initiative of all returning, I'll in all probability leave of absence that featured ship inwards place.
You tin utilise something similar, amongst your blog.
You tin utilise something similar amongst your blog, if you lot like. Just note, equally I did past times experimenting, that the ship content, equally displayed inwards the gadget, has a express length. You'll utilise best amongst a curt together with carefully phrased opening sentence.
Oh Yes, I did tweak the gadget Title line!
.widget .post-summary h3 {
font-size: 28px;
font-weight: normal;
}
I'll in all probability instruct dorsum to "22px" afterward this episode is over - but for correct now, "28px" makes the championship "Dear Followers Of This Blog ..." stand upwards out a bit. Hopefully, roughly old Followers volition run into together with react.
You could utilise the same, amongst a Text gadget, if you lot wishing - though again, using a ship puts the honor into the posts newsfeed - equally this ship volition go. I exactly constitute the Featured Posts gadget to hold out the natural medium for an advice to my (former) Followers. As ever - YMMV.
---
Thanks to the #Blogger Followers gadget cleanup / rewrite, this weblog (and many others) convey lost a pregnant amount of Followers. It's possible that the people who were dropped may re Follow - if they are aware that they ask to together with hence so.
You may honor my advice, at the elevation of my weblog page, "AN IMPORTANT UPDATE". Hopefully, roughly people who are straightaway non Following volition read the advice, either on the blog, or inwards their newsfeed reader.