How to Change Your Blog Template in Blogger

If you are a newbie to blogging and join hands with Blogger platform, then you will be served a set of features to start blogging. As you move forward with blogging, you can do changes to your blog layout, edit template elements and change the design of your blog. But selecting your blog template is one of important milestone as you gonna lay your content on that template. You would be offered to select a template once when you start creating your blog with Blogger. But what if you change your mind and wanna select another template for your blog?

How to Change Your Blogger Background Image and Color

Designing your blog is a crucial factor and it will helps you to impress your readers at first sight. There are many options you can follow such as using a custom templates, customizing elements, use of effects on images and more if you consider attractive designing for your blog. However design itself not enough for your blog. So you should work on content to be qualitative too. When it comes to designing, how does your blog background aids in impressing readers? You may not care about it, but your blog background which spread over large amount of area could be able to convey what type of blog and what kind of personality you have. Would you like to give more color to your blog with different background image and colors?

Add LinkedIn Share Button for Your Blogger Posts

You may have already connected with LinkedIn social network. It's a type of site where millions of professionals meet together and empower their business opportunities. There you can exchange interesting content such as tips, articles and many more with the people, as you do on other popular social media platforms. So it's another useful platform to reach wider audience and you might wanna try out. People who would enjoy your blog might also like to share your content with their own connections on LinkedIn. So wouldn't you like to let your readers share your content on LinkedIn while they enjoying it?

How to Customize Google +1 Button Snippet in Blogger

Google +1 button was introduced for webmasters to use it on their sites to being recommended across the web and become more transparent in the search results. As it involves with the Google+ social network, it has been adding more social features to improve the usage of +1 button for almost all users in addition to webmasters. We have discussed their previous addition Friend Annotations and HTML5 syntax in Add Google +1 Button for Blogger Posts. Now Google +1 button has got its new addition +Snippets and sharing capability. Let's find out how to deal and customize +Snippet.

How to Backup and Restore Your Template in Blogger

We do many experiments in Blogger. Mostly we are seeking for widgets and add them, try applying custom templates and do more stuff with the template on our blog. After going through all smart and hard work to customize and craft your template, you would never wanna lose your customization. But when you deal with your template or make changes to your template, what if something goes wrong?

How to Show Popular Social Buttons with Blogger Popular Posts Widget

You may remember that we have discussed how to add Facebook Like button, Twitter Tweet button and Google +1 button for Blogger posts. Adding those popular buttons let your readers to share posts and convey their likes and recommendations on posts for their friends. You may add the Blogger official Popular Posts widget/element to your blog to promote your popular content to recent visitors. But do you know you can show popular buttons mentioned above along with your popular posts shown in the popular posts element?

Customize Reactions Element in Blogger

Blogger launched Reactions as an alternative to the comment form to easily engage your readers to get feedback about posts. It includes simple annotations chosen by author and displayed on the post footer. Reactions element helps you retrieve more feedback as it needs few clicks to show readers' response. Blogger enables you to customize your annotations easily but I would like to go through it again and make this post fruitful for everyone. In addition, as my main consideration, I would like to share about how to move your reactions element away from the post footer and display elsewhere on your blog. Would you like to know how?

How to Remove Google +1 Button from Blogger Share Buttons

Standard Blogger share buttons let your readers to share your post with their friends and interested parties. As Google +1 platform evolves on the web, Blogger also added Google +1 button with their share buttons to let readers to recommend your posts. Now you may need not to add Google +1 button for your blog posts explicitly if you are enabled to show share buttons on your post footer. But if you already wanna show Google +1 button elsewhere on your post pages, you would like to get rid of +1 button appears with Blogger share buttons. But how do you remove only +1 button while having other share buttons?

How to Customize Your Blogger Navbar

As a Blogger user, Navbar aka Navigation Bar is not a new feature you find on top of your blog. It has some interesting options such as it enables you to search blog, get back to your Blogger dashboard in a single click, let you share your content on social websites, shows your logged in email address and let you sign out and also you can navigate through recently updated Blogger blogs. As it has no much customization available, I would like to go through below criterais,

● How to Change Color of Your Navbar

● How to Hide Your Navbar

How to Enable or Disable Comments on Static Pages in Blogger

Commenting feature is popular for gathering feedback and ideas of users engaged with your blog. If you are publishing a post, by default Blogger enable comment feature unless you disabled commenting on your blog. If you create a new page aka static page to display static information, also comment form will be appeared for readers to make comments on those pages too. But you may don't wanna display comment form on some of your static pages. Do you wanna configure comment feature on individual standalone pages and let readers comment only on pages where you wanna allow commenting?

Can You Make Use of the Keywords Meta Tag in Blogger?

What are keywords? Keywords are specific words which are searched in a search engine. You can make use of keywords meta tag for your pages to be listed in search engine results when users perform a search. Meta keywords tag let webmasters to add additional text along with the body text to be indexed by search engines. The best practice is adding relevant keywords meta tags for each page of your site which useful to find your page on web. But would it be worthy adding keywords meta tag in blogger for search engine optimization?

How to Offer Email Subscriptions in Blogger

How is your blog readers stay in touch with your latest blog updates? They might visit your blog regularly for new information and I hope you already using some channels such as Social Media and Feeds to keep them connected. They are really great ways to keep your audience engaged with new updates. What do you think about offering your latest updates for readers via email? There are many people among your reader who love to stay in touch via social networks and subscribing to feed. But some others may like to receive your content right into their inbox as they check their emails regularly. Haven't you thought about that?

Customize the Attribution in Blogger

You love performing customizations on your blog, aren't you? Blogger is a free blogging platform to convey your ideas, information you have gathered and helps you to build a community around you too. It's completely free. You know what I mean? If you had to build it yourself, you will cost more than you imagine and due to the Blogger service, you just need to own a blog, create your content and publish only. Blogger doesn't ask you for anything in return, so you won't cost anything to use Blogger platform and to build your blog on it. But as you make use of Blogger platform, it's better if you can be grateful by mentioning or linking back to Blogger website. Well, actually if you own a blog on Blogger, it has been already mentioned on your blog footer. Do you have any idea of customizing blog footer element? It's actually called Attribution element. If so, you will notice that Blogger has been made it inaccessible. How about making it accessible and editable?

How to Change the Number of Posts Shown on Homepage in Blogger

How many posts you have displayed on homepage of your blog? On Blogger, your homepage usually displays latest content you have published. Homepage of a blog is critical as it can gain more exposure on content. Visitors land on your blog tend to scan homepage of a blog to understand what content has been published and read through if interested. If you feel that your homepage isn't displaying enough number of posts or got many number of lengthy posts which makes your homepage laggy, you may wanna change the number of posts shown on your homepage. Interested to know how? Here it goes.

How to Move Comments Below the Embedded Comment Form in Blogger

Commenting is compulsory to communicate with your readers especially on a blog. As a communication tool, you can let them express ideas or contact you through the comment feature. Sometimes you would like to customize the formation of displaying comments. So if you display embedded comment form below each post on past pages, you may find that comments submitted by readers were appearing above the comment form. But what if you prefer displaying comments below the comment form?

How to Display a Comment Link with Post Title in Blogger

Do you think hiding post footer from your homepage is a worst case scenario? No it isn't if you feel it's bothersome and taking a lot of space from homepage. So you will show only snippet of post with a link to actual post page using jump breaks or just full post. But with the hidden post footer, you will hide most of elements related to posts which are crucial to the particular post such as published date and time, author name, related labels, number of comments. We discuss how you can show off author, labels, date and time via How to Display Post Author, Date/Time and Labels post. But comment link was missing there. You don't need to confuse your visitors without showing a way to comment on your blog. How you gonna show comment link then?

How to Customize the Page Title in Blogger

Did you ever noticed that how your blog on Blogger platform shows title of your blog pages? Obviously on  homepage, it shows your blog title you defined for your blog. On other pages such as post and static pages, you will see preceding blog title with the post or page title. Do you think it needs to be changed the way it appears? I mean, such as removing blog title from other pages, changing the order of title or including extra information to the title or whatever you may like to do with page title. Is it even possible in Blogger?

How to Add a Custom Header in Blogger

By default, Blogger offers you a default static blog header including title and description of your blog. Further you can display image or logo with your header too. Does it bugging you? The way how your header is. Do you think you could have done more to your header if you can use a custom header instead of default one? If you are not prefer the default header style, you will seek around a way to customize or add a custom header for your blog. As far as if you have tried it by yourself, you may have find that current blog header is cannot move a bit or remove it. So you might have wonder why you can't remove default Blogger header and add a new custom header to your blog. Still wondering?

Change "Links to this post" Text in Blogger

Have you seen a text or a label as "Links to this post" on your blog? Sometimes you may see some links listed below the label or no links at all. Did you find it confusing? Have no idea what it is? This feature is called as Backlink feature on Blogger. It indicates sources that mention or link back to your particular page online and you can find who are interested in your topics and read about them. It appears only if you have show backlink setting enabled. The use of this is that readers can find what others talking about your content and how interest they are. Enough about the feature. Would you like to come up with a different label or text instead of "Links to this post" text?

How to Edit "Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)" Feed Link and Message in Blogger

Did you notice the Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) link on your blog? You can find it near the blog pager at the bottom of your blog. It's a feed link in Blogger that enable users to subscribe for your blog posts via feed reader to notify updates about new posts. It sounds confusing for some readers who doesn't know about it. If you offer a way to subscribe for your posts via feed, then you might find it unnecessary too. Whatever your requirement is, I'm gonna help you edit this link. Do you need to hide or remove it from your blog? Or just need to change the text of that link? Let's figure out how to.