How to Enable Threaded Comments on Blogger Blog

How to Enable Threaded Comments

You don’t need to do anything special to enable threaded comments on Blogger. If you have commenting enabled on your blog, then threaded commenting will be enabled by default for you provided you have your blog feed set to “Full” and have chosen the “Embedded” option as opposed to “Full page” or “Popup window”.

To set your blog feed to “Full”, you must go to Settings -> Other and select Full feed from Allow Blog Feed drop-down option.

To enable embedded comments, select Settings -> Posts and Comments and select Embeddedfrom comment location drop-down option.

When you enable both these settings, threaded comments work fine on default Blogger templateshowever if you are using a customized blogger template, threaded comments may not be visible for you. But no need to worry, I have found a solution for it. You need to add the following code to your template if threaded comments are not visible on your blog.

Note: Before following the below mentioned steps, I advice you to take a full backup of your blogger template. I will not be responsible for any errors arising in your template due to this.

1. Sign in to your Blogger dashboard and go to Template -> Edit HTML -> Proceed. Now checkExpand Widget Templates and find the following piece of code:

<b:includable id='main' var='top'>

Below this code you may see the following code:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;static_page&quot;'>
<b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
</b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
</b:if>

2. Now replace this code with the below mentioned code:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;static_page&quot;'>
<b:if cond='data:post.showThreadedComments'>
<b:include data='post' name='threaded_comments'/>
<b:else/>
<b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
</b:if>
</b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<b:if cond='data:post.showThreadedComments'>
<b:include data='post' name='threaded_comments'/>
<b:else/>
<b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
</b:if>
</b:if>

3. Save your template and now threaded comments must be visible for you.

I hope it helps to add threaded comments to your blog. If you face any problem, don’t hesitate to leave a comment here.

EXCLUSIVE: GOOGLE TO REBRAND BLOGGER & PICASA INTO GOOGLE +

Mashable just learned that Google is intending to retire two of its popular and biggest branded products and incorporate them into Google branded services in next six weeks.

The move is part of a larger effort to unify its brand for the public launch of Google+, the search giant’s social initiative.

According to two sources familiar with the matter, Google intends to rename Picasa “Google Photos” and Blogger will become “Google Blogs.” Several other Google brands are likely to be affected, though our sources made it clear that YouTube would not be rebranded.

According to their source, the move isn't without precedent; Google acquired Jotspot in 2006 and rebranded it as Google Sites in 2008 in 2007 and they also acquired VOIP platform GrandCentral and relaunched it as Google Voice in 2009.

Picasa a very popular photo sharing site was acquired in 2004 and Blogger (co-founded by Evan Williams of Twitter) was acquire in 2003 and is one of the top most visited websites in the world.

As it now seems this drastic move will sadden some existing bloggers, but it gives Google the ability to completely integrate both services into Google+