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Exploratory chat with ChatGPT on Blogger as Free/Low-cost Static CMS possibility; Blogger LMS Education Templates

Last updated 24 Oct. 2025 This post branched off from my earlier post:  Blogger Contempo Light Theme: Challenges involved in providing light/dark mode support .  ====================== Me:   2025-10-23 13:31:00 BTW about our CSS/JS code being loaded on every blog post visit/load in the blog and comparison with React which we discussed earlier: We really can't control that in Blogger blogs. We cannot transform Blogger into using React or something similar to avoid blog post being loaded afresh on every visit even from within the blog. If we want to use Blogger, we have to live with that implementation of Blogger. We can customize the theme but can't really change that implementation. Am I right? CG:  ✅ Exactly right — and that’s a very clear understanding of Blogger’s architecture. Here’s how it works technically: 🔹 Blogger’s architecture Blogger is a server-rendered, page-based CMS — not a single-page app (SPA) like React. Each blog post or page view is a fu...
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Blogger Contempo Light Theme: Challenges involved in providing light/dark mode support

Last updated on 28 Oct. 2025 Quick Info Demo blog:  Contempo Theme Toggle Light/Dark Test/Demo GitHub public repo of customization code (has Readme.MD) Summary Blogger does not seem to support light/dark mode. At least, its Contempo family of themes do not support switching between light/dark mode using Chrome browser's light/dark mode setting.  I use Contempo Light theme for my Blogger blogs. There is a Contempo Light and a Contempo Dark theme but that applies all the time irrespective of browser's light/dark mode setting. It is possible to provide an imperfect light/dark mode support by customizing the Contempo Light theme. However, to do it properly, it involves lot of effort in identifying which elements and CSS classes in Blogger have to be changed to dark mode styles and then coding in the CSS for that. Even after all that effort, some elements could be missed out and so the code may break. With assistance from ChatGPT, we came up with a simple approach of changing colou...
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