Partly cloudy, chance of labels
August 25th, 2009 | Published in Google Blogger Buzz
by Wiktor Gworek, Software Engineer, Blogger (Krakow, Poland)
In April, we announced that we wanted to hear from you about your wish list for features in Blogger. Many of you said that the label gadget should be more flexible. Today we are rolling out two enhancements to the label gadget.
Label Cloud
Previously, the label gadget showed a list of labels—and by far the most requested enhancement was to present the labels as a "cloud" instead of as a bulleted list. That's now supported in the gadget directly:
Once enabled, the more popular labels appear in a bigger font than the less popular labels:
Selected Labels
If you've been on Blogger for a while, you might have more labels than you know what to do with. Don't want to show all of your labels in the widget? No problem: go to the label gadget settings and choose "Selected labels." You will be able to select a subset of labels to be displayed in the widget:
We hope you like it!
This is one of many features announced as part of Blogger's 10th birthday. Happy Birthday!
In April, we announced that we wanted to hear from you about your wish list for features in Blogger. Many of you said that the label gadget should be more flexible. Today we are rolling out two enhancements to the label gadget.
Label Cloud
Previously, the label gadget showed a list of labels—and by far the most requested enhancement was to present the labels as a "cloud" instead of as a bulleted list. That's now supported in the gadget directly:
Once enabled, the more popular labels appear in a bigger font than the less popular labels:Selected Labels
If you've been on Blogger for a while, you might have more labels than you know what to do with. Don't want to show all of your labels in the widget? No problem: go to the label gadget settings and choose "Selected labels." You will be able to select a subset of labels to be displayed in the widget:
We hope you like it!
This is one of many features announced as part of Blogger's 10th birthday. Happy Birthday!