Some blog owners are accustomed to editing their Blogger profiles, from time to time.
Publishing a blog that presents oneself to ones readers, openly, is important to some blog owners. The Blogger profile becomes a blog component that is edited, periodically, to keep the blog reader friendly.
The Blogger profile editor produces content which is displayed in the "About Me" gadget, for single owner blogs. Multiple owner blogs, complementarily, display "About Us" - which provides a different display.
Google+ profiles are edited using the Google+ desktop - and Google+ desktop content does not display in "About Me", in Blogger.
"About Me" displays Blogger Profile content. Once you upgrade to a Google+ profile, you won't have access to the Blogger Profile Editor - and you'll have no way to edit Blogger Profile content.
If the blog has been upgraded, you won't be able to edit your Blogger profile.
If you can edit your Google+ profile, sufficiently, you'll be good. If not, you can work around the problem.
Just create your own custom "About Me" gadget, using a Blogger HTML or Text gadget. You can do this in under an hour.
Add an "HTML / JavaScript" gadget. That's how you start.
Use the Layout "Add a Gadget" page, add an "HTML" or "Text" gadget, and fill the gadget content with your profile. With a little work, you can make a gadget with as much detail as any Google+ page or profile.
- Desktop banner background / icon.
- Photos.
- Text.
- Video.
- Whatever interests you - and your readers.
With a little work and imagination, you can have a blog that looks like part of your Google+ desktop.
Owners of #Blogger blogs that use Google+ profiles want to edit their "About Me" gadgets - but find no way to do that. With a Google+ profile edited using the Google+ desktop, no "About Me" displayed content is produced.
Fortunately, it's not difficult to produce a custom "About Me" gadget.
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An interesting bit of confusion is seen, occasionally, in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken.I added a gadget using code from a third party website - but the new gadget shows the code, instead of the gadget content, when I view my blog!
This is somebody who was confused by the options offered by the gadget setup wizard.
When you add an HTML / JavaScript, or a Text, gadget to a blog, you can get odd results.
"Add a Gadget" provides the "HTML / JavaScript" and "Text" gadgets - your choice.
The captions and labels in the "Configure HTML/JavaScript" or "Configure Text" wizard can be a bit confusing. From the "Add a Gadget" wizard, you can select either an "HTML/JavaScript" gadget ("Configure HTML/JavaScript") or a "Text" gadget ("Configure Text").
The "HTML / JavaScript" and "Text" gadgets are identical - excepting the title.
Both the "Configure HTML/JavaScript" and "Configure Text" wizards use the same code - the only difference between the two is the header.
- Configure HTML/JavaScript
- Configure Text
Everything else is the same. Either wizard can create an "HTML / JavaScript" gadget (in HTML mode) - or a "Text" gadget (in Text mode) - as you wish.
- When the wizard is in HTML mode, the caption at the upper right border of the Content window will read "Rich Text". Positioning the cursor over "Rich Text" (and noting that the cursor does not change to a pointer), and clicking on "Rich Text", brings up the Text mode of the wizard.
- When the wizard is in Text mode, the caption will read "Edit Html" - and clicking on "Edit Html" puts the wizard into HTML mode, again.
The title of the wizard does not change, when switching modes.
The header of the wizard - "Configure HTML/JavaScript" or "Configure Text" - will remain as it was when the wizard was opened, ignoring any mode changes. The caption, at the upper right border of the Content window, is what matters.
- If you want to add code (HTML / JavaScript), you will want the caption to read "Rich Text".
- If you want to add text (Rich Text), you will want the caption to read "Edit Html".
Being in the wrong mode will produce inconsistent and odd results.
If you're in the wrong mode, you'll be able to enter a limited amount of content - but with odd results.
- If you're in HTML mode (with "Rich Text" showing), you'll be able to enter text - to a limited degree. HTML is simply fancy text, with tags (special keywords and symbols).
- The HTML editor toolbar will lack a few buttons - and using special characters like ampersand ("&"), greater than (">") - and less than ("<"), will produce random and unpredictable results.
- If you're in Text mode (with "Edit html" showing), you'll be able to enter the HTML code - but when the blog is displayed, you'll see code (which is just text) in place of a working gadget.
If you just added a new gadget - and ended up with visible code, when you tried to setup an HTML gadget - now you know why. Similarly, if the "Save" button is now broken, and you are trying to add or update a Text gadget.
This is one of several possible causes of problems seen when adding / updating the HTML / JavaScript / Text gadgets.
