I'm overwhelmed with the response for Devil's Workshop Blogger Template. Missed it? Then, take a look at it - DW Blogger Template. I received lot of emails appreciating my efforts to create the template. With that being said, I do receive mails about the various bugs/errors in the template. So, this article deals in solving those issues.
Many people emailed me stating that the read more hack is not working on the template. The read more hack is installed, by default, in the template. You just need to enable it in every article you post. In other words, it's a manual read more hack which works using the "Insert jump break" option available on the blogger post editor. If you are using the very old post editor, then you need to update the same and look for the icon shown below.
The second issue deals with the Google Plus One Button installed to the right of post title on homepage. The plus one button, when shared, incremented the counter for the entire blog rather than incrementing it for each article on the homepage. Quite annoying for a reader to see simultaneous increment for the entire blog when he/she tried to just plus one the article. Well, don't worry! I've fixed this issue now.
To add Google Plus One Button to individual article, or in other word, to increment the count for each article on homepage, follow the steps mentioned below.
1. Navigate to "Design>>Edit HTML" and make a backup of your template by clicking on the "Download full template" link at the top of the page. Once the back up is over, expand your template and search for the following block of code.
<div style='float:right; margin-left:8px; margin-top:-5px;'>
<fb:like action='like' colorscheme='light' expr:href='data:post.url' font='arial' layout='box_count' send='false' show_faces='false'/>
</div>
<div style='float:right; margin-left:0px; margin-top:-3px;'>
<g:plusone size='tall'/>
</div>
<fb:like action='like' colorscheme='light' expr:href='data:post.url' font='arial' layout='box_count' send='false' show_faces='false'/>
</div>
<div style='float:right; margin-left:0px; margin-top:-3px;'>
<g:plusone size='tall'/>
</div>
2. Replace the code highlighted in blue with the following piece of code.
<div style='float:right; margin-left:0px; margin-top:-3px;'>
<g:plusone expr:href='data:post.url' size='tall'/>
</div>
<g:plusone expr:href='data:post.url' size='tall'/>
</div>
3. That's it! Save your template and your done!
Now, try to plus one each article individually and you'll see that they increment as they should! Let me know the other errors or bugs associated with the template. I'll try to fix each one of them. If not, post why they can not be done:) Nevertheless, I hope you enjoyed this update. Share your opinions via comments below:)
