Saturday, September 19, 2020

Going Back to Legacy Blogger

How much do you really hate the new blogger? I'm posting this in old blogger, despite not having the "revert to legacy" button available.  It's not a perfect workaround, but it's better than a sharp stick in the eye.

Use this url after editing it.

https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=XXXX&useLegacyBlogger=true#allposts 

Replace the x's with your blogger id.

You get your id by going to the dash board and looking up in the url line.  I've x'ed out my id, you need your own.


Replace the x's with your blogger id in the LegacyBlogger=true url, then cut and paste all of it into the url line.  I bookmarked the altered URL which is not a great solution, since it's hard to find in the list.  It's not that hard to just paste it in if you're doing a new post and then paste in the blogger id over the x's. It also restores the way comments used to work as well as navigating through older posts.

Who knows how long the legacy version will be accessible, but I for one, am hanging on to the old version until the bitter end. 

Many thanks to a blogger in Denmark who came up with this. I got there via Cup on the Bus and then on to Elephant's Child and then to Denmark.

Update:  if you have the notepad app, you can paste the url in there in a saved file on your desktop and it's easy to get to.
Update 2:  apparently this only works on the dashboard page.  If you view blog, you can't go back to legacy unless you re-input the edited url.


9 comments:

  1. Am I missing something? I used Blogger yesterday, my first time with the new format. At least I assume it's the new format, things looked different and required more effort than before. I didn't have any problems posting though. Perhaps because I'm rather elemental and not well versed in what can/could be done. Basic post, no "linking" or positioning pictures in different spots, etc. I was afraid, but so far it's OK!

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    1. The basic posting functions are onerous but tolerable. My biggest complaint is the way comments are dealt with in the new version, as well as going back a couple of years to fix something in a post. It takes forever to go back. They changed those functions drastically and not for the better. I also hate change.

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  2. seems like more trouble than it's worth. more like a middle finger to blogger. I'll see. It's harder to control the formatting in the new version and little discrepancies like that annoy me. my personal OCD I guess.

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  3. Thank you, Allison. I still see the revert to legacy button, not sure how. But I go back and forth all the time, as some functions, like linking, simply suck in the new blogger.

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  4. I tried it and google tells me sorry, I don't have access to that page.

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    1. That's very odd, and unfortunate. I'm on it now.

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    2. yeah, Leanna too. I'll try again tomorrow.

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  5. I don't particularly like the new Blogger, but I don't think I dislike it enough to jump through these hoops. LOL!

    It is amazing that they launched all these changes and so many of us HATE them, though. I mean, couldn't they have tested this more? Focus groups, maybe?

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  6. I guess I was not specific enough in the directions. You can edit that url ONCE and then paste it into the note app and leave it there, open, on your desktop. Then if you want to go back to legacy, open the note app, highlight the url, ctrl C, go to an empty url at the top of the screen and ctrl V. It's about a 5 second activity.

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