Known Issues for Blogger

The Blog List will display a “please correct the errors on this form” message if you try to import a Reader subscription with a title longer than 99 characters. As a workaround, you can shorten the subscription name.

The shrink-to-fit feature for headers and images only affects newly-uploaded images. To workaround this issue, simply upload your image again.

Update, 2/29: The “shrink to fit” checkbox now only appears before uploading an image.

Archives page elements set to “Hierarchy” are not showing posts for any months beyond the first three.

Update, 12/19: This has been fixed.

The Search Box page element is currently not returning any search results.

Update, 10/24: This has been fixed.

Some script tags inserted manually into the template code, instead of inserted through a HTML/JavaScript page element, will prevent the Template Page Elements tab from fully loading. For instance, some users report that they are unable to view the "Add Page Element" link. To workaround this issue, please ensure that all JavaScript is inserted via a page element.

Readers with Internet Explorer will see a white background behind polls added with Blogger in draft's Polls page element.

The Polls page element (on Blogger in draft) does not currently work well with non-Roman Unicode characters. Also, you may be unable to save a poll in some languages because the closing date contains non-Roman characters.

Adding or editing an AdSense page element from your Layouts section may return the error message "An internal error occurred. Please try again." As a workaround to this issue, copy your AdSense code from your AdSense account and insert it into an HTML/JavaScript page element in the layouts section of your blog.

Some users report that they are unable to see the “Add Page Element” links in their Template | Page Elements tab. This occurs when the blog incorrectly tries to display from a URL with “www2” instead of “www.” To work around this problem, simply remove the “2” from the URL.

Update, 5/24: If you are still experiencing this issue but do not have a "2" in your URL, then there may be JavaScript causing the "Add Page Element" links to disappear. Please ensure that you put all JavaScript into JavaScript page elements, instead of directly into your template code.

It is currently not possible to add new Feed page elements to your templates. We are working on the issue.

Update, 5/9: it should now be possible to add new Feed page elements to your templates as expected.

In some cases, users are unable to add certain page elements to their template (for example, the HTML/Javascript element) and see a "we're sorry..." error message. We have identified the problem and are working on a fix. Update (9/11): The fix is being tested, coming to you soon. Update (9/13): This has been fixed. Enjoy!

The HTML/Javascript page element was breaking some scripts such as Flickr badges. This should be resolved now.