The Novel Followers Gadget - Blocking Followers

With the pre 2016 Followers gadget, the Followers population for a weblog was managed through an Options link on the Followers gadget.

This required the weblog possessor to sign into the Followers gadget, to access the Options link. Authentication - in addition to an possessor specific Options carte - is no longer a pert of the Followers gadget.

It is possible to Block Followers, from a weblog - the choice is only non constituent of the Followers gadget, whatever more.

Previously, the choice to Block a Follower was constituent of the Options menu, inwards the Followers gadget.

To ensure that exclusively a weblog administrator was able to Block a Follower - or practise diverse other weblog to viewer functions - the Block choice was constituent of a complex wizard, accessed past times a weblog administrator.

This required the might to authenticate a viewer - separately from the Blogger / Google login. This, inwards turn, made the Followers gadget complicated - in addition to Pb to occasional malfunctions.

To simplify the Followers gadget, at that topographic point is no ask to login to the gadget, whatever more.

Now, the might to Block unwanted Followers is constituent of a weblog administrator Stats page. On the Stats Overview page, hold off for the Followers count.

The break which displays the Followers count is at nowadays a link. Clicking on the number, 1 tin access the "Manage followers" wizard.


This weblog has 4,954 Followers. Click on "4,954" (right now).




And at that topographic point is the "Manage followers for " wizard. Each Follower at nowadays has a "Block" button, manifestly visible.



Since exclusively a weblog administrator has access to the Stats dashboard page, at that topographic point is no ask for a split upwardly Followers login. Just click on the Followers count, on the Overview page.

And the Followers gadget has only 1 option - the button, at nowadays visible to each weblog viewer.
  • Follow (if non currently Following).
  • Unfollow (if currently Following).

The Follow / Unfollow push applies to administrators, authors, in addition to readers alike. Now, at that topographic point is no ask to seat a somebody equally related to a weblog - except equally whether this somebody is currently Following the blog.

Simplicity - for weblog administrators, weblog viewers, in addition to Blogger developers.



When the #Blogger Followers gadget was re written inwards 2016, the "Options" carte - in addition to the ask to login to Following separately - was removed from the gadget.

The might to Block selected Followers, previously constituent of the Options wizard, is at nowadays constituent of the Stats dashboard page.

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