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Cross-posted from the Google Official blog Posted by +Yonatan Zunger , Principal Engineer Reading and responding to comments can be one of the most rewarding aspects of blogging. Not only do they help you connect with your readers, they can also inspire later blog entries. The challenge, oftentimes, is following all the conversations around your content — on Google+, for instance, as well as on your website. So we're making things a lot simpler. Starting today, you can bring Google+ Comments to your Blogger blog. Once you've enabled the feature through your Blogger Dashboard, you'll enjoy a number of important benefits: View your blog and Google+ comments, all in one place Now when you're browsing your blog's comment threads, you'll see activity from direct visitors, and from people talking about your content on Google+. For example, if there's a public Google+ discussion about one of your blog entries, those comments and replies will also appear on your B...

Posted by: +Samantha Schaffer  and +Renee Kwang , Software Engineer Interns. Whether you’re a web developer who builds blog templates for a living, or a web-savvy blog owner who prefers to make changes to your template using HTML, CSS or JavaScript, you may be interested in some enhancements that we made to Blogger’s Template HTML Editor . Your blog’s HTML template is the source code that controls the appearance of your blog. This template can be customized to appear however you’d like. The improved HTML template editor now supports line numbering, syntax highlighting, auto-indentation and code folding to make editing your template much easier. Suppose we wanted to move the date of a blog post underneath the post title, similar to the Blogger Buzz blog . To do this, follow these steps: Click the “Template” tab on the Blogger dashboard, then the “Edit HTML” button, to see the new template HTML editor: Locate the “Blog1” widget quickly using the new “Jump to widget” drop down: T...