BAH HUMBUG - MORE BLOGGER HEADACHE!

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A friend contacted me, asking for help as her blog is now only showing one post at a time! What makes it worse is that resetting the number of posts to show on a page didn't work.

Why? Good old Blogger has done it again: they have now introducted autopagination as this article explains. And NO, you can't disable it (I just spent 4 hours trying).

These things do settle down... I had 3 weeks of my Older, Newer and Home buttons not working at the bottom of a page back in the summer, and this righted itself in time. Ditto around 5 weeks of being unable to leave comments. But it's really frustrating when it happens!

I think for my friend things have been made worse because her blog is privately hosted, not a Blogger blog. And I just found out we don't own our own content - Blogger does! Yikes! What with the Picasa scandal (click on Picasa in the labels section of my sidebar if you want to read the rants) I am really getting worried about Blogger again. I love the format, I've even forgiven them for trying to stop us customising the layouts ourselves... but this might just be a step too far.

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Over the Christmas holidays I'll be reinvestigating Tumblr and WordPress (again) and will report back.

We really don't need this just now!