'What I’d like, is I’d like to hug, and kiss ya'

So blogger is back! Thank goodness… I’d have to like… go… do… stuff… if it stayed away much longer… and well… we can’t have that can we?!

After having minor conniptions on twitter about how bummed I’d be if my blog posts from the last two years disappeared into the cloud, the first thing I did when blogger came back was back this mo’fo UP! In the process of doing that I realised I was backing up 549 posts – which makes this my 550th post, which means some sort of celebration is in order.

Because this was kind of unexpected & because if I wait until 600 I’ll forget all about it until it’s too late, I don’t ACTUALLY know what I’ll give you as a “Woo – 550!” present, but it’ll be something. That’s for sure. It might even be good.

So if you trust me (Bahahaha) & like surprises, leave a comment.

We’ll see what happens.

Fixing the search function in Wooden Fence Theme for Blogger

This is just a quickie for anyone who is using this template (originally a wordpress theme which has been converted for blogger), or would like to use this template, and doesn't know why the search function takes them up, up & away, instead of, you know, searching your blog.
It is a really simple edit, but I didn't know that last night! After trying for an embarrisingly long time to insert complex code here & there (I am a complete & utter coding dunce), I finally stumbled on the easiest fix ever... then wanted to pummel my head against my desk for not working it out sooner.

So, without further ado....!

Go to "Layout" > "Edit HTML"

You need to find the following piece of code, the easiest way to do this is by pressing "Ctrl+F" this will bring up a search or find box at the top of your browser window. Type in 'search' & you will see that it comes up with around 10 instances in your code where 'search' is written. Click 'Next' until you come to this code;

<!-- Search -->

<div id='mainsearch'>


<form action='http://demo.templatelite.com/?q=Search' id='mainsearchform' method='get'>


<input class='input' id='s' name='q' onfocus='doClear(this)' type='text' value='Search ...'/>


<input class='submit' type='submit' value=''/>

</form>



Change this bit;

<!-- Search -->

<div id='mainsearch'>


<form action='http://demo.templatelite.com/?q=Search' id='mainsearchform' method='get'>


<input class='input' id='s' name='q' onfocus='doClear(this)' type='text' value='Search ...'/>


<input class='submit' type='submit' value=''/>
 </form>

to your blog's search, ie: 'http://YOURBLOGHERE.blogspot.com/search', Click 'Save' & your done! :D

The other thing you might want to sort out with this theme is how it displays the time above your post & not the date. Go to "Settings"> "Formatting" & change the TIME display to the long date format. Voila!

Hope this has been of some help to other coding noobs! ;)