Auto Pagination Roll Up by Blogger

After further research, we have today learned that the recent problem related to incorrect number of posts appear on the main page of Shewsbury Land is due to the Auto Pagination features introduced by Google/Blogger which automates the amount of content that is displayed on Blogger blog pages based on the amount of HTML and and images on each page.

Google claimed that the purpose behind the change is to speed page load time. For example, with the new Auto Pagination feature, a Blogger blog might be limited to only display two posts per page if those posts include a lot of images. Visitors would need to click on the Next Post link to view additional posts from the blog. While the change is unlikely to affect a lot of smaller bloggers, it has caused concern from larger bloggers, particularly those who use Blogger for photo blogs or blogs that are image-intensive, such as celebrity fan bloggers.

Many of the Blogger users who found their blogs suddenly altered to display only a couple of posts per page blogged about the new Blogger Auto Pagination feature in order to complain about the change. According to some of the more vocal bloggers, they were able to email Google and work with them to modify their blogs so the Auto Pagination feature doesn't affect their blogs. If you use Blogger and dislike the Auto Pagination feature, be sure to contact Blogger support and voice your concerns.

For sure now, Shewsbury Land is one of those affected site and we are still trying to learn further and hopefully we can solved this issue or otherwise, we might need to change the template all over again.

Plenty of people out there are already cursing at Google/Blogger for this thing to happen so I better not spilled out my anger in here as well as it is pointless to bark in the dark. Basically I am still a happy client of Google and I'm a little upset with this issue and I hope there can be a win-win solution for both Google/Blogger and all their clients globally.

I believe for someone like Google/Blogger who suppose to be smarter, this can be avoided, plenty of arguments from many parties should be taken into account without being too much emotional but the pinnacle of the exercise is to get a more friendlier and mutual understanding and hopefully it can bear some positive result. It is never easy to please everybody, but to do the best is all that we must do and hopefully everything will go in places accordingly.

David John Shewsbury
Shewsbury Land