Automatically Post Your YouTube Videos On Wordpress And Blogger

I know many bloggers have YouTube channels and like to post their YouTube videos on their blog.So in this post I will show you how can automatically post YouTube videos on your blog.Using IFTTT I have created two recipes to do just that, auto post any video you upload to YouTube to your blog on either Blogger or Wordpress.As well as this the Video title from YouTube will be used as the post title and the video description will be used as text within the post.

So; IFTTT is a site you can use to connect social accounts, online services, feeds, email and more.When we connect two of these services it is called a "recipe".I created a recipe wherein you can connect your YouTube account with your Wordpress blog and another were you can connect your YouTube account with your Blogger blog.I have tested both and once connected YouTube uploads are posted on your blog within minutes.I then made these recipes public so anyone can use them.

I have a video tutorial below along with links to both recipes for you to connect your blogs with your YouTube channel.

Video Tutorial

Top 20 Best Premium Blogger Templates

We have created some fantastic lists of Free Blogger Templates, indeed they are some of the most viewed posts on the entire site.But what about Premium Blogger Templates, templates that require a fee ? For a long time I never even considered listing a collection of Premium Blogger templates.There was for the last few years Premium templates out there but in my opinion they did not offer enough more quality than free templates to warrant a fee.

But all that has changed, over the last year I have seen a number of designers selling premium templates that really are a cut above the rest.Yes the free templates are still good and some extremely good but many of the premium templates now being released have the extra quality and features that are worth a the lousy few bucks they charge (No template listed below costs more than $20).

I have actually worked with a few of these templates and it was while working with the first on the list I finally decided to bite the bullet and do the list.So here it is I have linked to the demo's and you can click on Full Details to get all the info on each template.

20 Best Premium Blogger Templates

Avoid Template

Price $20
Avoid is a template I have worked with and It's excellent.A bright fresh color scheme with a two column right sidebar layout.From the top we have a date display, social icons and page menu.Then the header which is split for ad placement on the right, below there is a drop down menu.The content is shown in so many ways with different sliders, gallery's and posts by labels displays.On the posts pages related posts are shown along with both Blogger comments and Facebook comments for the reader to choose from.

Demo      Full Details

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How To Automatically Hide Spam Links In Blogger Comments

Comment spam is a major issue for all bloggers.We all love comments and they can be the life blood of a blog but spam can be hard to control.Even comments that look OK can contain spam links, especially on Blogger were when moderating comments you can not see if any of the text is a link.So in this post I have two ways to ensure your the comments on your blog will not contain spam links.Not only will it remove the links from any future comments but it will also remove all links from past comments.

We have two options :

CSS - First a small piece of CSS that will completely remove links left in comments.With the CSS the anchor text that make the link (the clickable words) will be completely removed the rest of the comment will remain.

jQuery - Second we have a small piece of jQuery script that will leave the anchor text that make the link (the clickable words) but they will no longer be a link or clickable.

Cool Ehh ? I had used the CSS for some time (Yes spammers ye have been wasting your time) but have now switched to the jQuery.Check out the video tutorial to see more on how each works then It's your choice on how you want to go.The codes needed are below the video.

How To Embed Instagram Photos On Your Blog

Instagram has grown beyond recognition since it's launch in 2010 as a photo sharing social network.But what can Bloggers get from Instagram ?

In this post I want to show you how you can easily embed photos from instagram in your blog posts.This is of course a great way to share your Instagram images on your blog but Instagram also has great potential as an image source in general.We all know pictures bring blog posts to life but often we struggle to find suitable free images to use in our posts.With the Instagram embed option you can get great free to use photos while knowing you are linking back to the owner of the photo in the proper manner.

Here is an example of a photo I have embedded from Instagram.You can see the image is in a frame that links to the photographer on Instagram and shows the likes and comments so you need not worry about copyright.The images can also be resized to suit, in the embed code you will see and edit the height and width (This one is 710x612 Pixels).

How To Stop Sites From Opening Your Blog In A Frame

OK this is another post that comes from a readers question.They said "I use Networked Blogs to auto share my posts on Facebook but when you click the link on Facebook it shows the page with a bar at the top and a different URL".

This is in fact called a frame and some websites display pages from other sites within a frame, Stumble Upon would be a good example as indeed is Networked Blogs.While I feel Stumble Upon has a reason for this many websites do it to keep people on their site, some even take credit for your content.

Example

In the first image you see how the blog usually looks :

Here we see the blog within the Networked Blogs frame.In the address bar you can see the URL is Networked Blogs (In Green) and a bar runs across the top of the page (In Red) :

We can fix this and add a line of script to your template that detects when your blog is being placed in a frame and overrides the frame.This tutorial is for Blogger Blogs but the code will work on any site.

Stop Your Blog Opening In A Frame

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How To Change The Blogger Navbar To A Slide Out Effect

One of the first ever posts on this blog was How To Remove the Blogger Navbar (Indeed it was September 2009).Since then we have been given the option to remove it without the need for code.But many bloggers like the navbar so we looked to styling rather than removing with tutorials like Peek-a-boo hover navbar and Move the navbar from the top to the bottom of the page.

In this post I have a brand new modern style you can use on your blogs navbar, the slide out.Slide out menus have become popular in modern web design so why not ? The slide out navbar will be simply the blogger logo in the top corner of the screen but on hover it will slide out to full size.It's an easy trick to implement and I have a video tutorial at the end below the code if your having trouble.

Take a look at the demo below :

Note : You will see the small logo in the top corner simply hover your cursor over it for the magic, after a few seconds it will slide back.If you keep your cursor over then navbar it will not slide back, otherwise you can set the time for how long it stays open.

How To Put Your Blogger Labels And Archive Within A Scroll Box

On a blog I am currently doing design work on I we had a problem with the size or length of both the blog archive and labels gadgets.The blog has being going for a number of years posting daily so the archive is huge and the author has about 100 labels.This of course means that the Labels gadget and blog archive gadgets are very long thus taking up a lot of space.

Now you could display the archive and Labels as a drop down but the owner of the blog wanted to leave them as lists, they felt the readers used the lists to navigate the blog.The solution I came up with was to place the archive list gadget and Labels gadget within a scroll box and I was (as was the blog owner) very happy with the results.In this post I am going to show you exactly how I did it, and it only takes a line of code.

If your not familiar with the Blog archive/Labels gadgets you can add them to your blog by going to the layout page, clicking add a gadget then scroll to find each.

I don't have a live demo for this one but you can see the difference in the screenshots below :

11 Reasons Why Your Blog May Be Doomed To Fail

Guest Post - Our host is Marc Andre, Marc uses his personal experience to list 11 reasons why so many blogs fail.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Blogging has been a critical part of my business and income for the past 5+ years, and over that period of time I've known many other bloggers who have experienced huge success, and even more who have not been able to achieve their blogging dreams.

Whenever I try to analyze what has led to the success or failure of certain blogs or bloggers I come back to the same things over and over again. It's not usually the fact that the blogger has amazing writing ability or an incredible knowledge of the subject that makes a blog successful. And it's not the lack of the same things that leads a blog to fail.

In this article I want to take a look at what I have seen to be some of the most significant, and common reasons, that bloggers fail to reach their dreams and goals. The intent isn't to focus on the negative, but rather to show the pitfalls that trap many bloggers who start out with high hopes. Avoid these pitfalls and you'll be well on your way.

Forget About Links - Get Your Blog Square With The Social Gods in 2014

Guest Post - Our host is Anna Johnson, Anna is taking a fresh look at blog back links, Social Media and Guest posting in SEO for 2014..See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

For years, link building has ruled the online universe. Even when content was sworn in as King in 2012, link building still served as the royal advisor. Social media has been the cute little Princess dancing around in the background for the past few years, but it looks like her patience has finally paid off—she’s just been crowned Queen. Whether it is the humanization that social media brings or the incredible variation in distribution, there is little doubt who is making the rules now. So what does this mean for blogging, guest blogging and link building in general?

Guest Blogging Has Been Put Out To Pasture…Or Has It ?