I've written a few posts about editing post content - and discuss clearing cache after editing, to see updates.
Generally, my posts reference cached posts content. Sometimes, blog owners need to clear cached feed content, in addition to / instead of clearing cached post content.
There is a difference between post content, and newsfeed content - and how both are cached. Newsfeed cache is not as frequent a concern.
When we provide instructions to clear cached blog content, we reference browser cache.
Clear cache - then restart the browser, and check again.
or maybe
Clear cache, cookies, and sessions (yes, all 3) - then restart the browser, and check again.
Posts, updated after published, may create a problem with the posts newsfeed.
In some cases, updated posts may create an "out of sync" condition with the posts newsfeed, as well as the displayed content.
If comparing post content and feed content is important, you need to synchronize the newsfeed with the posts. This will restart the newsfeed - and sync it with the posts.
- Deactivate the blog feeds.
- Publish a post - or delete a recently published post.
- Reactivate the blog feeds.
Activate / Deactivate the blog feeds, using the "Allow Blog Feed" wizard.
The "Allow Blog Feed" wizard, on the dashboard Settings - Other page, in the "Site feed" section, is used to activate and deactivate the newsfeeds.
Look for "Site feed", and "Allow Blog Feed".
"Site feed" is on the Settings - Other dashboard page.
Open the drop down menu, and note the current setting. If you have "Custom" selected, dig deeper.
There are a few selections, in "Allow Blog Feed". For consistent results, note what you have before Step #1 - and re select them after Step #3.
This blog, like many others in Blogger, is "Always Under Construction".
This post, like many earlier ones, was just published. Now, I plan to spend many long hours, reorganising and tweaking the content, phrasing, spelling, syntax - and correcting typos.
If you wish, you can subscribe to any of several posts newsfeeds - and compare the newsfeed content in each, with the displayed posts content. The older any post is, the more changes will be made.
The more revisions I make, the less this post, and the posts feed, will match when compared. Check it, for yourself.
Maybe one day, I will need the feed, in this blog, be accurately updated to compare more closely to the updated posts. Many of my posts double in size, even after post publish edits are "complete".
If you use email, and other feed subscriptions, to read new posts in this blog, you may be missing out on interesting details, added long after posts are published.
Newsfeed content is published once, as each post is published.
Post content may be out of sync with feed content, because post content and feed content is not updated at the same time.
You can update your posts, when you wish. Newsfeed updates are published when the posts are published - and the cached newsfeed is not updated, when you edit a post after it is published.
When you synchronise published posts content with displayed content, you generally clear browser cache. Newsfeed cache is not in the browser - so the latter instructions won't help with newsfeed cache.
That is the basic procedure for syncing the blog content, and feed content. You may have other concerns, though, that might complicate the above procedure.
The procedure is exciting - but painless.
I initially published this post, without any photos - and we see my Reading List, an hour ago.
And my Reading List, after I restarted my blog feed.
It took all of 5 minutes, including making screen prints of my Reading List - before and after, to restart the newsfeeds.
As always, I'll suggest that you Follow this post - and observe the changes. And watch for changes (unlikely) to the newsfeed.
Many #Blogger problems, when being diagnosed, start with advice to clear browser cache (maybe, cache, cookies, and sessions). Not all problems involved the published posts - some involve the posts feed.
You can't clear feed cache, as you can browser cache, because newsfeed content is not cached in the browser. You can, however, force a newsfeed rebuild, by restarting the newsfeed.
Private blogs affect other Blogger features - and the combination of results are inconsistent.
With dynamic templates, the private blog selection causes an inoperable display. Conversely, with Google+ Comments, enabling Google+ Comments disables the private blog (designated reader) selection - and vice versa, in the various Blogger dashboard pages.
The two interactions - and differing mutual exclusiveness - contribute to some interesting diagnostic sessions, in Blogger Help Forum: Get Help with an Issue.
Intriguingly enough, when one of the known limitations with private blogs is diagnosed, some blog owners may treat the limitation as a personal insult.
Not all blog owners understand the technical limitations, with private blogs and other Blogger features. The limitations are based on simple technical interactions.
- Dynamic templates, and private blogs.
- Google+ comments, and private blogs.
Dynamic templates, and private blogs.
Private blogs do not publish blog newsfeeds. Dynamic templates require comments and posts newsfeeds, to generate the displays.
You can make a blog private - and you lose the "Dynamic Template" selection, in the dashboard Template page.
Some of the templates offered on the Template page, for a public blog.
Simple.
Dynamic Views.
Picture Window.
Awesome Inc.
Some of the templates offered on the Template page, for a private blog.
Simple.
Picture Window.
Awesome Inc.
If the blog has a dynamic template already, you can change to private access (edit Permissions, and designate readers), with no warning. The next time the blog is accessed, you will see the Spinner of Death.
My Dynamic Template test blog, set to Private.
Google+ comments, and private blogs.
When Google+ is used, no access to the Blogger permissions database is available. Since Google+ Comments are (or can be) Google+ stream posts, Google+ Comments can only support public blogs.
If you enable Google+ Comments, you will see a warning in the Permissions wizard - and you'll have no ability to Edit "Blog Readers".
Google+ Comments enabled. Learn more
If the blog is private already, you'll similarly see a warning on the dashboard Google+ page.
Google+ Comments are unsupported on non-public blogs and blogs marked as containing adult content. Learn more
So Google+ Comments, and private blogs, are mutually exclusive, on the dashboard - though Dynamic Views and private blogs are not, with intriguing result.
Why won't my blog load? It was fine, yesterday!
And when the blog address is provided with the problem report, we can see the problem.
Learn More.
The option to designate permitted readers, for a #Blogger blog, affects other Blogger features. Not all blog owners know about or understand the limitations that exist.
Some people who will enjoy your blog may prefer to follow it using their email.
It's not difficult to setup email delivery of the comments or posts - from various source selections. FeedBurner offers a wide assortment of delivery options, for the many sources.
Blogger offers the "Subscribe by Email" gadget and service, which delivers the posts newsfeed. That's one feed possibility - and you can have many more, with very little work.
Using the many options provided by FeedBurner, combined with the many feed possibilities, you can produce a generous set of email subscription options.
- Setup a FeedBurner feed.
- Activate the "Subscribe by Email" service, for the feed.
- Add a FeedBurner form, to the blog.
- Setup the Post Feed Redirect, to connect the blog and the FeedBurner feed.
Setup a FeedBurner feed.
To add a standard blog posts subscription, add a "Subscribe by Email" gadget (for blogs with non dynamic Blogger templates) - or a "Subscription Links" gadget (for all blogs, including those with dynamic templates).
The standard blog posts subscription is not the only possibility. You can setup a FeedBurner feed for any blog published feed - including various label based feeds.
Blogger now publishes a pages feed, which complements the posts feed. And FeedBurner will distribute the pages feed, as it does the posts feed.
Start with the URL of any blog native feed.
Give the feed an Address and a Title.
The feed is setup. Proceed to the dashboard, to Activate the feed.
Activate the "Subscribe by Email" service, for the feed.
Activate "Email Subscriptions", for the FeedBurner feed that you setup.
From the FeedBurner dashboard Publicize - "Email Subscriptions" - "Subscription Management" page, Activate the "Email Subscriptions" service, for the feed.
The service is active - now check out other options.
With the "Email Subscriptions" service activated, look at the various formatting and distribution options available.
Add a FeedBurner form, to the blog.
You can use the form provided with "Subscribe by Email", if you are setting up the standard blog posts feed. For any other feed, you can use either form provided on the "Subscription Management" page, installed as an HTML / JavaScript gadget.
Using the "Subscription Link Code", you can add a fixed location ("floating") subscription icon.
Setup the Post Feed Redirect, to connect the blog and the FeedBurner feed.
FeedBurner "Edit Feed Details" is used to link the FeedBurner feed, to the blog. Similarly, you use the Blogger "Post Feed Redirect" to link the blog to the FeedBurner redirected feed.
Just use your imagination.
FeedBurner presents you with endless choices, for letting your readers enjoy your blog from their Email inboxes. Think about what will look good on your blog - and what will interest your readers.
Not all #Blogger blog owners know how easy it is to use #FeedBurner email delivery, to provide your readers the option to view your blog - in many content options - using their email inboxes.
