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Last week we rolled out a new feature allowing customization of SezWho UI in blogger blogs. This functionality allows a blog author to disable/enable ratings and customize the text which shows on the rating ‘bar’. This feature was available for a long time for other SezWho plugins.

If you have a blogger blog, this feature can be accessed by logging into SezWho ‘My Account’ and then accessing the ’Edit Presentation’ of that particular blog.

Here is a screen capture from the ‘Edit Presentation’ screen:

Feature Details

1. Enable/Disable Comment Rating — Turn on/off the comment rating. Self-explanatory. There may be times when you want to turn the comment rating off.

2. Enable/Disable Post Rating — When? Say, you have a blog about Pokémon protagonists and you don’t want it to be rated. Simple, switch the ratings off. The ratings are blog specific. I would love to have it post-specific, but that feature is in our pipeline.

3. Enable/Disable SezWho Avatar on the post — This is mostly used when you have customized your template to include an avatar of your own. Better to leave it on as we also aggregate from gravatar, mybloglog (and blogcatalog, for our BlogCatalog users)

4. Enable/Disable Profile Link — The SezWho profile displays the latest activity stream of that particular commenter or post author. Your visitors can hover (or click) on “Who Am I?” link and and view the activity stream. Good idea to have it “on” to keep your blog interactive.

5 & 6. Custom Profile Link Label & Profile Link Separators — These are two individual options which allow you to customize the text for the profile Link. Most of the blogs use our new default option, viz. Who Am I? surrounded by two regular brackets. You can be fancy/creative here. The popular ones are: “It’s me dude!”, “Who is this guy?”, etc.

7.  Custom Rating Text — Be default, the rating text is “Rate This”. You can have your own version such as “Rate this content”, etc.

If you see issues drop us a note at support@sezwho.com.

Over the last week, we have heard from you about the issues related to page load slowdown. We have heard about issues related to people wanting more control over their layout for blogger blogs…Well the wait is over.

We are announcing the support for precise layout of SezWho elements for bloggers blogs.

With the latest changes the blogger users will be able to:

1. customize the layout of SezWho elements on their comment pages.

2. Pick and choose the elements they want.

3. See SezWho elements load instantly on your blogger blogs

For instructions see http://sezwho.com/install_bg_temp.php

Now these instructions deal with template changes for blogger. If you are having difficulty with the template layout that you have, please drop us a line at http://sezwho.com/support and we will be happy to help.

We just updated the Blogger plugin…following are the changes:

1. Just one hop for most pages : We were making two sequential calls to load up the data for Blogger plugins…This was causing the performance/time to load for SezWho to be kinda poor. We have fixed the issue by just sending all the data in one hop only. Take a look at the improved performance at the following blogs:

http://allied.blogspot.com/
http://melisasriwulandari.blogspot.com/
http://www.briansolis.com

2. New updated UI: We have updated the blogger UI. Below is how the integration looks now:

this puts the author profile link next to their name…if name is not present, it will revert to the earlier behavior.

What do you think? Let us know if you notice any issues.