How Does Your Blog Look ~ Quick Editing and Pinterest

If you are like me, you can't live without quick editing on your Blogger blog. If you have quick editing enabled on your blog, you'll see a little pencil at the bottom of each post. Clicking on that pencil enables you to edit that post.

If you don't have quick editing enabled, go to Settings / Basic /

However, a few days ago, I noticed that there were no more pencils at the bottom of each post. Quick editing had disappeared!!! It was a long process to edit a post. I was not a happy little bunny!!!

As I always do in cases such as this, I searched Google. I thought I had found the answer, but it didn't work. Mr TMW found the fix for me. Oh, I came so close: I was using a (.) when I needed to be using a (/).

Google is rolling out a country redirect to its Blogspot pages, starting with Australia, New Zealand and India. What it means for me, is that Blogspot pages I view, are now redirected to an Australian address. eg;
http://blogname.blogspot.com ..... now gets redirected to   http://blogname.blogspot.com.au
It doesn't matter where the blogspot blog originates from, if I am reading it in Australia, it will be redirected to the Australian address. It's apparently all to do with content removal for the law in specific countries. I'm guessing that with the blogs I read, there will be no difference to the content.  You can read the Google/Blogger FAQs on the topic here.

So, what's this got to do with quick editing? Somehow, quick editing has disappeared along with the new country redirect rollout. To overcome the quick editing problem, I need to alter the country redirect. To do that, add  (/ncr) at the end of a blogspot address. Using my address as an example:
http://threadingmyway.blogspot.com ... the actual address
http://threadingmyway.blogspot.com.au ... the redirected address
http://threadingmyway.blogspot.com/ncr ... the no country redirect address, which will then appear as...
http://threadingmyway.blogspot.com

Adding /ncr will stop redirection of your blog for that session. Add your blog to your bookmarks and add the /ncr to the bookmarked address, otherwise you will have to add it every time you log in.

Other blogs you view will still be redirected. Blogspot blogs with their own domain are apparently not affected by the rollout.

Most people know how to see their projects that are pinned on Pinterest:
http://pinterest.com/source/yourblogname.blogspot.com/

No matter where you live, you now have extra addresses to check:

http://pinterest.com/source/yourblogname.blogspot.com.au

http://pinterest.com/source/yourblogname.blogspot.com.nz

http://pinterest.com/source/yourblogname.blogspot.com.in

How Does Your Blog Look ~ Master List

.. Pam