
255 - MONITOR A THREAD FOR NEW POSTS
HaCK
# 104
The Google Groups thread options menu
To save your amended template, hit the Save Template button. You can now check the result by
viewing your blog. If there’s no navigation bar in sight, your hack was successful.
If there still is a navigation bar showing, perhaps Google has since adjusted the way their page design displays
the navigation bar. If so, you may need to read the HTML source of your blog’s page and adjust your stylesheet
instructions accordingly.
The Blogger navigation bar is also disabled when using FTP to transfer the blog pages to your own domain,
because the navigation bar includes many elements that work only in the context of a Blogger-hosted blog.
However, FTP publishing—see Settings
→Publishing—comes with its own set of side effects, so a move should
be carefully planned. Note that in order to switch to FTP uploading, your blog must be public and use a classic
template. (You can set your blog to be public via Settings
→Permissions, and you can set your template to
classic at the Template
→Edit HTML tab.)
HaCK 104:
When you contribute a post to Google Groups, there may be a
delay before it appears. Furthermore, responses to the post may
trickle in hours, days, or weeks later. How do you know when that
happens? And what if a particular thread in your own group is so ...