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From Progressive Bloggers Library

If you cannot find the answer you are looking for in the following help page, please contact progressive [at] freethought [dot]ca.

1 Displaying the Progressive Bloggers list
2 Displaying the Progressive Bloggers buttons
3 Post aggregation
4 Changing your blog's information
5 Allow Readers To Vote For Posts On Your Page

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Displaying the Progressive Bloggers list

To add the Progressive Bloggers list to your website, insert the following code on your website wherever you want the list to be.

<script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.progressivebloggers.ca/lists/list.js"></script>

Note, however, that the list is fairly long (at time of writing, over 314 blogs!). You can restrict the size of the list by employing a scrolling DIV container. To do this, insert the following code instead:

<div style="width: 200px; height: 300px; overflow: auto">

<script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.progressivebloggers.ca/lists/list.js"></script>

</div>

This will create a 200x300 pixel box that the list will fit in. If you want to change the size of the box, simply change the values of the width and height properties in the DIV tag.

If you only want a list displaying blogs with posts made within the past 12 hours, use this code:

<script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.progressivebloggers.ca/lists/list_recent.js"></script>

Alternatively, if you prefer to do things server-side (and you know what I'm talking about), then you can opt to use the following files:

http://www.progressivebloggers.ca/lists/list.html - Pre-formatted HTML snippet

http://www.progressivebloggers.ca/lists/list.xml - RSS 2.0 Feed

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Displaying the Progressive Bloggers buttons

We have various buttons you can use in addition to the Progressive Bloggers list.

The large format button can be inserted using the following code:

<a href="http://www.progressivebloggers.ca"><img src="http://www.progressivebloggers.ca/progblog.png" width="175" height="40" border="0" alt="Progressive Bloggers" /></a>

The large bilingual format button, created by Debra from April Reign can be inserted using the following code:

<a href="http://www.progressivebloggers.ca"><img src="http://www.progressivebloggers.ca/images/progblog_bbi.png" width="175" height="40" border="0" alt="Progressive Bloggers" /></a>

The smaller button, created by Sean McDonald from seanmcdonald.ca can be inserted using the following code:

<a href="http://www.progressivebloggers.ca"><img src="http://www.progressivebloggers.ca/progblog_small.png" width="80" height="15" border="0" alt="Progressive Bloggers" /></a>

The smaller French button, created by Debra from April Reign can be inserted using the following code:

<a href="http://www.progressivebloggers.ca"><img src="http://www.progressivebloggers.ca/images/progblog_petite.png" width="80" height="15" border="0" alt="Progressive Bloggers" /></a>

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Post aggregation

To have your blog posts included in the aggregator, you must ensure that you have a valid RSS 0.9, RSS 2.0 or Atom XML feed on file. We will automatically fetch your latest posts from that feed. For maximum compatibility, we recommend that you provide an RSS 2.0 feed. As well, RSS feed items must have pubDate or dc:date properties.

If you are not sure that your feed is being picked up, please e-mail us and let us know.

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Changing your blog's information

All changes must be verified by our moderators, so to change or verify your blog's information, you must e-mail scott [at] progressivebloggers [dot] ca to let us know of the required changes. This goes for updated your RSS/Atom feed as well.

Please note that your Progressive Bloggers user account does not link up to your listing in the Affiliates list.

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