How to get your mails back after pointing your Bluehost domain to your Blogger account?

If you have pointed your www.yourdomain.com to your blog, your mail server at Bluehost may not work properly and stop receiving emails. That happened to me and I found out 2 simple steps to correct it.

• Login your Bluehost cPanel, go to Domains > Advanced DNS Zone Editor. Select your domain if necessary, scroll down to Zone File Records and look for mail.yourdomain.com. If it is associated with CNAME record, change it to Type A record and point to your own IP address.

• Then move to cPanel > Mail > MX Entry, select your domain if necessary, and you will see the MX record at the bottom. If the Destination is yourdomain.com, change it to mail.yourdomain.com and then you are done.

Don't know how to point your own domain to Blogger? Check out this post.

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Michael Jackson Artjamming Exhibition at Miramar Shopping Centre (Hong Kong)

Hate Dropped Calls? (a creative ad)

Lovely Santa Claus (Harbour City, Tsimshatsui, Hong Kong)

How to point your Bluehost domain to your Blogger account?

If you want your blog address to be http://blog.yourdomain.com

• Login your Bluehost cPanel, go to Domains and choose Subdomains to create the "blog" subdomain first.

• Go back to cPanel > Domains and click Advanced DNS Zone Editor. Select a domain if you have more than one.

• Under Add a Record, create 4 separate Type A records and point blog.yourdomain.com (Name) to each of the following IP addresses:

216.239.32.21
216.239.34.21
216.239.36.21
216.239.38.21

If you want your blog address to be http://www.yourdomain.com, the steps are a bit different. I haven't done it with my master account, but with an addon domain (second domain purchased from bluehost). The steps are:

• Go to Advanced DNS Zone Editor, select your domain if necessary, scroll down to Zone File Records and find the row like this:

www.yourdomain.com.(Name) CNAME (Type) yourdomain.com (Record)

• Click on Edit and change CNAME record to ghs.google.com

• Now it's the turn to create 4 separate Type A records and point yourdomain.com (Name) to each of the following IP addresses:

216.239.32.21
216.239.34.21
216.239.36.21
216.239.38.21

If you have problems in receiving emails after pointing your domain to Blogger, check out this post.

Note : I've been using bluehost for more than 5 years and would recommend it to my friends and readers. If you need a domain name or hosting service, check out their website.

Can't add the Blogger Share Buttons?

Blogger has added the new feature "Share Buttons". However, if you're using old templates, you need to do something to get the share buttons to show up.

Here are the steps :

1. Login your Blogger Dashboard. Go to Design and then Edit HTML

2. Check the box Expand Widget Templates and use the Find function of your browser to search for the following code:

<div class='post-header-line-1'/>

If you can't find it, try looking for :

<data:post.body/>

3. Place the following code right after it and save your template:

<div class='post-share-buttons'>

<b:include data='post' name='shareButtons'/>

</div>

4. Move to Page Elements and click Edit of Blog Posts to add your share buttons.

That does the trick and you should be able to see the buttons!