How to Edit Home, Older Posts and Newer Posts Links in Blogger

As a Blogger user, you may have seen Older Posts, Home and Newer Posts links at the bottom of your homepage. They help your readers to navigate through your posts and to go back to homepage if they need. Technically this whole element is known as Blog Pager and links called as navigation links. Without a clue you know where those links are heading to by their text labels. But except for default link view, you might wanna give more color to your navigation links by changing text or replacing relevant icons or images. But do you know how to edit its text or replace it by a relevant image as you prefer?

Get Facebook Comment Notifications via Email in Blogger

Did you implement Facebook comment social plugin on your blog? We have already discussed about implementation via Add Facebook Comment Social Plugin to Blogger post. If you have implemented it on your blog, you may have find that you can moderate comments easily with Facebook comment moderation tool. But as you have more number of posts on your blog, you may find it buggy to keep an eye on Facebook comment moderation tool to see recent comments made on your blog. Sometimes you may have missed comments that needs more attention and users may have to wait for long hours until you reply for them. Therefore you will find it somewhat disturbing as no way of notifying new comments. Would you like to get notified whenever someone made a comment via Facebook comment plugin?

Easily Customize Your Favorites Icon in Blogger

Do you know what is the Favicon or Favorites Icon? Most probably you may have heard of it. Or may be you have seen it but don't know what it is exactly. Favorites icon is a simple icon represents a blog or website and you can see it on your browser tab, address bar or when you bookmark a website on your web browser. It's also known as shortcut icon or website icon too. Would you like to add your own custom favorite icon for your blog too? 

How to Show / Hide Elements on Different Pages in Blogger

How many of elements have you added to your blog? Most of time you add gadgets and widgets, images, advertisements or other elements to your blog except for posts to convey a message, attract visitors or for a specific purpose. But after adding some elements, you might encounter a problem of displaying them on appropriate pages. I mean sometimes you may just wanna display some widgets or elements only on specific pages but not on all pages. In such a scenario, do you know how to show off your elements only on a page where you wanna display them?

How to Change Number of Posts Shown on Your Blogger Feed

As a Blogger user, you might have already using a Feed Management Service such as FeedBurner, which optimize your raw feed for readers to subscribe easily and to gain more traffic to your content. If you haven't redirected your feed to FeedBurner, read How to Create a Blogger Feed using Google FeedBurner. As and when you publish a new post on your blog, Blogger automatically updates your feed and syndicate to your Feed Management Service. But by default Blogger is feeding only recent 25 blog posts. What if you wanna change the number of posts being showed on your feed?

How to Create a Blogger Feed using Google FeedBurner

Feed is another way to deliver your content beyond the site visitors. By default Blogger publishes feed for your blog automatically. It's feed your latest content published on your blog to the feed. But does it worthy? Do you have any idea how do you make use of it? External news readers or feed readers can subscribe for your feed to retrieve latest content published on your site without heading to your site by subscribing to your feed. Also you can use your feed with external applications to deliver your content to other sites such as social media and micro blogging websites. But in addition to standard capabilities, can you make more out of your site feed?

How to Position Elements on Blogger Post Pages

Mostly when you include gadgets or widgets on your blog, you will be confused how to place it as you prefer. Mostly you may follow instructions from another source and you will add widget to the place that article/post refers or suggests to. Sometimes it's difficult to know what's on readers' mind for a developer or writer. And it's not easy for article writer to specify each and every instruction that reader may like to add widgets on their blogs. Therefore you may find that they will mostly address the most possible or common way and let users to change positions later if they are know how. So what if you need to change the position of a widget by going through your template?

Add Google +1 Button for Blogger Posts

Google, the search giant, has introduced their own social platform Google+ and it has a peculiar feature known as +1 button. Now it's more popular among most blogs/websites as it affects organic Google search results. Google +1 button is a way to recommend content for your friends and followers. Once you recommend a content appears on the web with +1 button, your friends will be able to see it with your recommendation across the web. As it enables your site to get recommended on search, most of webmasters was eager to implement +1 button on their respective websites and blogs. As a blogger, I don't think you gonna say NO for it. Would you like to implement Google +1 button for your posts too?

How to Display Post Author, Date / Time and Labels Below Post Title in Blogger

When you publish a post on your blog, you may see information related to your post such as Author, Time, Labels etc. on your post footer. But if you wanna get rid of post footer or make use of jump breaks, readers may not be able to find that particular information on your homepage or blog. So you would like to show them off out of post footer. Else if you just wanna customize the way that post specific information has been displayed on your blog, you would seek a way to do that too. So how about showing those information along with your post title to be differentiate and stylish?

How to Remove Post Date Header in Blogger

On the Blogger platform, you may have seen a header line with date above the posts on homepage. It's the date header and the posts published on that particular day will list under that date header. If you don't seems to like the way it is, you would try changing date header format with available options. You may satisfied by changing date format. But if not, you may prefer to show publication date with each of your posts or planning to show it anywhere else suitable for your blog theme or design. Therefore you would like to hide date headers from your blog as you are working on an alternative. Are you desperate to know that how to get rid of those date headers?

Customize Post Footer in Blogger

As you manage your blog, you have to be more specific in offering quality content for your readers. It should be relevant and unique. However content is not the only aspect you wanna consider when it comes to blogging. You have to think about look and feel of your blog, the services you are offering to your readers to feel them comfortable in reading your content and much more. When is comes to Blogger, specifically, they don't have huge number of plugins to play with. So you may prefer to customize available and make use of them to your blog. One of such element you should not forget about is post footer. Absolutely you know what it is and it appears right beneath your post. Would you mind customizing your post footer?

Add Facebook Comment Social Plugin to Blogger

Blogger offers you a default comment form for your blog to get feedback from your readers. It has moderation and threaded commenting feature too. Mostly comment form is vital as it allows your visitors to ask questions and provide their ideas and thoughts on your content. It's where conversation begins. However default comment form is not the only way you can make use of. If you need you can add third party commenting platforms on your blog. So what do you think, beyond default comment form, if you can add stylish comment plugin to your blog easily? Also what if your comment form can give more exposure to your content in addition to commenting?

Add Twitter Tweet Button for Blogger Posts

Sharing your content over social media is better way to publicize you blog or to grab more exposure to your content. Twitter is a popular social network and micro blogging site where most users publish their updates. Once users interested in your content, they can copy and paste your post URL to share and recommend your post to their followers and friends. However it may take some time for that process and sometimes user may forget to share your URL too. But rather than playing with copying and pasting page URLs, what if you can let your readers share your content among their followers and friends while they reading your content?

Hide Post Footer from Homepage in Blogger

How much do you care about your blog design? It matters, yeah. Your blog design matters as it represent your personality and no... no... don't ever think about copying someone else's design. Yeah, it's alright if it's available for you or you build similar with your own efforts. Else you just don't show off yourself. It's true that design doesn't matters mostly but some people identify when they see you are using someone else's design strategy. However try to be unique with designing and customize it as you need. When it comes to customization, you may have seen that Blogger show post footer end of each post. You may feel it's perfectly alright to show at post pages, but you may not like the fact that it's visible on your homepage. It depends on your choice. Wanna get rid of post footer from your blog homepage?

Remove Blogger Post Image Shadow and Border

Have you ever attached images in your posts? Most probably the answer would be 'Yes'. But after publishing your post, you may have seen that your image has a shadow and a thick border around it. Sometimes you may wonder how it appears after publishing the post, 'cause if you go back and edit your post again, you won't find any border or shadow there. So you have nothing to do at the Post Editor to remove border or shadow. You may find no clue about that. But that shadow and border appears around your images may still bugging you. Are you still wondering how to get rid of such shadow and border appears on your images in Blogger?

Remove the White Space Gap Below Comment Form in Blogger

While you are managing your blog, you might have special attention on your blog's look and feel. Arranging page elements, widgets and customizing template are common design practices in many bloggers to impress their blog visitors. You may have seen an empty white space below Blogger comment form. Mostly it doesn't matter if you are selected not to display backlinks for your posts. If you have enabled backlinks in your blog, it might be troublesome on the aspect of appearance of your blog by occurring much white space gap below comment form. The reason for this gap is the height of your comment form area and you can alter this on your Blogger template. Wanna know how?

Add Facebook Like Button for Blogger Posts

While you blogging with your own blog, you may interest in enabling your viewers to share your blog content through social media to their profiles or friends. It enables your blogger friends to share information easily and help to increase your blogger traffic through sharing content over social media. Such a way is Facebook Like button. It interpret you, how many Facebook users interest in particular post in your blog and sharing it over their Facebook profile. Now Facebook Like plugin includes a Share button along with it. So while your friends sharing your blog contents over their profile, they may able to share your posts with their Facebook friends too.

How to Get Your Blogger Sitemap

Sitemap is a way to learn a search engines about pages scattered in your blog. A sitemap will list down all URLs in your blog and it will make it easy for search engines to find your pages. Else search engines need to come and crawl your pages to grasp updates on your pages. So you may have heard of the word "Sitemap" if you are using tools such as Google Webmaster Tools, Bing Webmaster Tools to notify about your blog updates to search engines. They will ask for sitemap address from you whenever you wanna submit URLs.  Eventhough you have heard of it, you may have no idea how to obtain or generate sitemap address for your blog. Wanna find out your sitemap address?

Change "Post a Comment" Text in Blogger

As you publish unique and quality content on your blog, your blog readers interested in reading and enjoying them everytime they land on your blog. As they find them interesting for them, they might share your posts with their friends and followers too. In addition to sharing, a way for them to interact with you is commenting. Comments are form of feedback for your content and it's an integrated component of a blog. As they find your content interesting, they can convey their ideas and suggestions via comment form. However you may need to invite your readers to comment on your blog with a creative message. A creative message can get them to your comment form. isn't it?

Turn Jump Break into an Image in Blogger

As you wanna improve your homepage and not to make it heavy, you may use jump breaks in your posts, so full post or article doesn't appear on homepage. Else users may need to wait some time until your homepage get loaded and have to scroll long way down if you've got somewhat lengthy posts. We have already discussed about jump break links and learnt how to customize the alignment of jump break earlier via How to Align Jump Break in Blogger post. As I needed to add needed to do customizations with it, I have managed to convert jump link which is a hyperlink into an image at last. Wanna know how?