A Hidden Blogger.com "Feature"

Hey folks, I hope you’re having fun giving stuff away!  :)

First I should say thanks for all your feedback! It’s been great to see Rafflecopter out there in the wild running giveaways. We want it to be as helpful as utterly possible, so as always if you have any additional ideas/suggestions/critiques/etc…. Please don’t hesitate to contact us. We promise to respond quickly and we’re very nice (unless we haven’t had our coffee yet ;D), so let us hear from you!

In other Rafflecopter News: there are some cool updates coming to Rafflecopter. We’re adding in small touches that people have been asking for (like 1-click to email winners, picking multiple winners, and better support for Facebook), and we’re working on some cool, bigger updates to come in the next week. Stay tuned!


But the “real” reason for this post is to help you if you’re encountering issues using Rafflecopter with Blogger. If you’re using Blogger and your toolbar looks like this:

then our instructions might not make any sense. It turns out that Blogger has 2 different editors you can use for drafting your posts: an old one, and a new one.

You need to use the “updated editor” in order to be able to use Rafflecopter. This probably won’t affect too many people as the “updated editor” seems to be the default now.

It’s very easy to switch. Here’s how:

  1. Click on your “Settings” Tab 
  2. Scroll down the page to “Global Settings” and use the “Updated Editor“.
  3. Click save, and that’s it! Now you can use Rafflecopter with Blogger.

 

Have fun giving stuff away!

— J.R. (@runningskull)

 

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Juan

Software toolmaker, explorer, & designer. Boulder resident & steep hill afficionado. Co-founder and CEO of Rafflecopter.com

  • Thank you!!

  • Elaine

    Whooo hooo! Thank you, this worked!

  • how about onsugar blogs? rafflecopter only appears on widgets and not in the actual post. I can’t fit the widget properly in my sidebar too!

  • Annharrison

    My Blogger is the updated format.  I have used Rafflecopter as recently as 3 weeks ago, and now this morning I can’t get the code to add to my post. Very frustrated

  • I am using the updated blogger format and the code will not show anything in my post, only ‘a Rafflecopter giveaway.’

  • Lara Beene

    I couldn’t get this to work either–also where are you supposed to paste it in all that html stuff?  I have the updated blogger, but this doesn’t really make sense on how to really use it.

    • Hi Laura – it was a super easy fix – I too, have the updated editor, but where my mistake was…was using the ‘compose’ area to create my blog post – you need to use the html tab to create the blog post and paste in the rafflecopter widget – once I did that – everything was fine…something goes wonky with the ‘compose’ area vs. the html area – hope that helps!

  • RANDY-FULGHAM

    i think i got twitter working at randy fulgham1

  • Donna McBroom-Theriot

    I am adding the rafflecopter url in html code. It shows up in preview but when I try to update it I am receiving the error message and it does not show up in my post: 
     
    Your HTML cannot be accepted: Tag is not closed: DIV Ignore warning 

  • I love this giveaway and I do hope I win a Kindle.I read lots of books and I have tried so hard on all these site to win one.Good luck to us all.

  • Laura J. Davis

    I’m finding that it still doesn’t come out properly on my blogger site. It is too big. How do I make it smaller?

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  • Lilliancooks

    I can’t get Rafflecopter onto my blogger page…my page doesn’t look like either of your examples! I’m lost!

  • Celestine Landrum

    I love this coach handbag give away. and i hope i do win. It will be so exciting to win this greatly valued handbag.

  • Karen Lee

    for some reason i cannot get it to show up on blogger. i only a blank space and the little link to rafflecopter, but not the form

  • justkeepinitrealfolks

    I thought I followed the directions properly but nothing is showing up on my post. I want to draft my post and have it scheduled for this Friday, April 27th. Any ideas why the raffle isn’t showing up?

  • Hi, followed the instructions above but the widget still does not appear. All I get is a link that takes me back to your main page. help please

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  • susana

    I am trying to load rafflecopter on my blog (blogger) and it will not show up. Can you help me?

  • Is it a different html code for blogger than for word press?
    I’m sharing a giveaway from a WP user and she sent me the code.
    But when I paste it into the html of my post and them “preview it”…all I see if the html code pasted there.

  • herry

    any way to change the size of the widget box as it donot fits withmy blogger theme