Lately our number one question has been how do you change your time zone. Believe it or not, this was something you couldn’t do until just this week!
Luckily, our development team are a great group of folks and have listened to your requests. Now you can change your time zone easily. To do so, click on “Blog Settings” in the dropdown menu and then scroll to the bottom of the page. There you’ll be able to choose from many different locations. Just let us know where you are, and your blog will reflect the correct time.
Thanks for the suggestions, and please do keep them coming!
New Feature: Change Your Time Zone
Discover New Blogs and Keep Track of the Ones You Follow
While this blog has been pretty quiet lately, things have actually been buzzing at the OnSugar HQ.
Last week we rolled out a bunch of improvements -- check out the top navigation bar, now with a built in search! -- and while we're excited about all the features, there are two things that you absolutely can't miss.
First of all, let me introduce you to the Tracker. This tool is a great way to keep track of all the OnSugar blogs you're following, as well as PopSugar Community Groups and Editorial. Stories will appear here with the most recently updated (either posted or commented on) post showing up first. Now you'll never miss another post or comment! And if you're tired of a certain post, just click the box and mark it read. Learn more about using the Tracker.
Secondly, you can now easily find new blogs to follow. Attached to the Tracker are two tabs: Discover and Explore. Discover allows you to keep track of posts as they happen (OnSugar and PopSugar Network), while Explore lets you find new OnSugar blogs by genre. Now you can discover who else is blogging about topics you enjoy. And who knows, maybe your blog will be featured!
Navigate Using Left and Right Arrow Keys
You can now use your keyboard’s left and right arrow keys to browse a gallery! Just click on any photo in your gallery (like this one), and navigate to the next one with your keyboard. It’s a new feature that is automatically built in to each gallery.
However, the fun doesn’t stop there. With a little bit of eyelash-batting, I was able to get our dev team to share the secret. With a few simple theme hacks, you can now build left/right arrow navigation into your blog (you can see it in action at the Daily Sabs). To add the feature, just place the following bits of code to the "Page" template of your theme.
Directly above the </body> tag add this code:
<script type="text/javascript">
onsugarInitSlideKeys();
</script>
And then add links for previous and next by using the following bits of code (you can change the bit that says "Go Back" and "Go Forward" and can place these links anywhere below the <body> tag and above the script code):
<a id='slide_previous' href="?page={$page_previous_page}">Go Back</a>
<a id='slide_next' href="?page={$page_next_page}">Go Forward</a>
Save your theme, and you should be set!
Remember, this is just a fun hack and it make take some tweaks to get it working right. If you need a hand, drop us a line at help@onsugar.com.
New Feature: Comment Management
This week our dev team rolled out a new way to manage your comments. The tool — which you can get to by clicking on “Comments” in your blog dropdown menu — allows you to view all of your comments in one place. Now you can easily search through comments, see all comments from one reader, and even un-publish more than one comment at once.
Visit the help blog to learn more about the new comment management system.
New Feature: Easily Toggle Between Rich Text and HTML
If you've been a member for OnSugar for a while, you've probably seen our HTML popup tool. It was convenient, but let's be honest, it wasn't the easiest interface.
To remedy this, we're introducing a new way to toggle between the two views. With a quick click of a link, you can see your post in the regular "rich text" format or in the "raw HTML" view. No additional popups, and no more "which window" confusion.
As a bonus feature, we're also going to remember which format you last used. So if you last edited a post in HTML, your next post will be automatically set to HTML. If you want to switch back all you have to do is click the link.
To switch views, just click the link underneath the body box. Doing so will toggle the content directly in the body box. Also please note: the old HTML popup icon will be discontinued soon, so let us know if you have any questions about the new way.
And remember, to embed code into your post (such as youtube videos, etc.) you need to be in raw HTML mode.