Blogger enhances post editor, adds import/export feature, embedded comments, star ratings and more

This happened just in the nick of time. I've been mulling over moving my web site to Wordpress from good ole' Blogger for quite some time now, but then lo and behold, new features get announced.

Now, Blogger has an embedded comment form in blog posts, support for importing and exporting of old posts and comments, and the post editor gets a few improvements as well. There are a few caveats, however, like how the embedded comment form takes too many steps to accomplish, the import/export feature currently works only with Blogger blogs, and though improved, the new post editor also loses a few old features. In any case, there has been a major overhaul in Blogger's feature-set, and I'd be a fool to enumerate them myself when all the info is available from their official blog anyway.

Thankfully, there are a couple of new features that I like, and these are:

1. Google Webmaster Tools integration
2. The addition of a rating system to posts

Now I understand why I've been seeing those "star" comments in my blog template while I was editing it - it was a new feature that had not been activated yet. Until now.

Read all about the new Blogger features at the following links, and have fun using the updates!

Read - Webmaster Tools Verification
Read - Star ratings
Read - Import / export of blogs
Read - Embedded comment form
Read - New post editor