One of the biggest turn offs of using Blogger is the lack of categories. It’s one of the main reasons why I switched to Wordpress a week ago. Today, a week too late I must say, I discovered a few hacks to add categories to blogger. None of them is straight forward, but they provide the feature blogger needs desperately

• Use the tag-making bookmarklet written by Ted Ernst.
• Use pace_tua’s upgraded bookmarklet, which generates the same code, but pastes it automatically into the blogger “create post” link field and therefore includes it in your post without cutting & pasting. You’ll need to change your blog settings to show the link field.
• If you browse with Firefox. Install the greasemonkey extension, and then run a greasemonkey script that will modify the blogger create / edit post page to include a tag creator in the form. Then just type your tags as you type your post!! This method can be bookmarklet-free, because the script adds a bookmark to del.icio.us link to the blogger publish notification window.

I recommend the greasemonkey extension option as it’s the easiest, however feel free to experiment with the rest and let us know of the results.

Via Freshblog

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