How to Add an External Widget or Codes to Blogger

As a webmaster, web widgets are really matters if you wanna impress your readers or it can be used to improve user experience on your site. You can find different kind of widgets all over the web. It could be an official widget provided by organization, social plugin offered by social networks, widget offered by an online program or custom widget developed by users. And except for widgets, you might wanna add external code to your layout to render them, such as advertisements, badges, images, videos, links, web tools. Commonly, in most scenarios they will provide HTML code or Java Script code for you to add on your blog. But when it comes to Blogger, you may have no idea about how you gonna add them. You wanna know how to?

Add Pinterest Pin It Button for Your Blogger Posts

Have you ever heard about Pinterest? If you are interested in social media, you may already know about it. It is the new addition to social network list and becoming more popular on the social web. But if you are not a person in alert, I'd like to include briefing about Pinterest here. Pinterest is a place where you can share and manage online images or videos found on the web. It allows you to create virtual pinboards to categorize content you found and uploaded. These content you uploaded or added to your pinboards will called as pins once after they added to your virtual pinboards.

Import and Display Content from a External Feed in Blogger

Do you have any favorite blogs in the same niche you are working on? You might have interested in different kind of sources which used to read and sometimes you may recommend some sort of useful sites to your readers too. So what if you can show recent posts from those sites on your blog? Also if you are managing multiple blogs, do you mind if you can show off recent content from another blog of yours that could have impress your readers and to gain more exposure to your content? Or do you like to list out most recent posts of your current blog? Or else what if I say you can show off external content in your blog via any available feed?

Add Buffer Button for Your Blogger Posts

Do you know what is Buffer? Buffer is a Social Media Management tool helping you to schedule your social updates online. You can set specific time slots in Buffer, so it will take care of your social updates and publish them on your social profiles when you want them to be published. Sounds interesting? If you are new to Buffer, you might wanna get started following this post - How to Schedule Your Social Media Updates with Buffer.

How to Reset Your Widget Templates to Default in Blogger

If you are looking forward to personalize your template, you may always looking for customizations in your Blogger blog. Everyone wants to do customization to their blogs, simply or extensively. It can be organization of your blog, changing layout, changing fonts and colors, changing background, modifying or adding styles, adding widgets and any other personalization activity. As you deal with your template, you may have to go through lot of HTML and style changes. In most cases you have to deal with your template directly. But due to this extensive changes, you may experience that your blog doesn't respond to changes as it was used to be. Sometimes if Blogger itself roll out any new feature, you may find it's not being reflecting on your blog. Sometimes you may wonder why your elements not working totally or according to their specified settings. Also you may fail to add or arrange elements via Layout tab. Further you may find that changes in your template not working out. So if you have this kind of issues, what you can try out at first place?

Enable Threaded Comments in Blogger

Do you have enabled comments on your blog? Commenting is must have feature in a blog. Comment form is a place where your readers interact with your posts and leave their ideas, appreciations and all their feedback. So reader comments are really helpful as it is a way of retrieving feedback and it could be a pathway to generate innovative ideas. Blogger has had commenting feature for all their blogs and you may never wanted to use any other external comment provider unless the default comment form couldn't reach your satisfaction level. If you compare Blogger comment form with other external providers, you may see some lacking features in Blogger comment form. However recently Blogger starts to revamp all their features and now they are refurbishing their comment form. As a result of that, Blogger rolling out threaded commenting feature for all Blogger users. But did your blog still fail to reflect this change or yet you are unable to make use of threaded commenting feature?

Add Floating Vertical Share Bar for Blogger Posts with AddThis

People always love to share interesting content with their friends and followers. Isn't it? I think you totally agree with it. As you and I are struggles with information madness, we may always find different kind of interesting information or content everywhere on the web. Once we find those, we may provide our feedback via available ways. Next we will try to find a way to share this piece of information. Copying and pasting links on our social profiles could somewhat an old methodology. So why don't you provide your readers an easy yet simple way to share your content across the web?

Add Share Buttons for Your Blogger Posts with AddThis

In blogging, people used to come visit your blog if they really worth what they are reading and some people might land on your blog after finding out your interesting blog posts via recommendations, web search or from wherever your content has been shared. Did you feel eventhough you have interesting posts, they have no readers as you expected?

How to Display Your Standalone Pages in Blogger

You may have already created some of useful pages on your blog. I mean not the posts, but static pages such as About Me which are more peculiar to your blog. After creating pages, your next consideration would be letting readers to access them. Obviously you can add custom links by editing template to direct users to those pages in relevant places on your blog. How about making the navigation more convenient for your blog visitors. Wouldn't it be nice if you can show them as tabs or as a list easily without even touching your template?

How to Create Pages in Blogger

Are you seeking a way to add static pages for your blog? Yeah, that could be the exact reason you are reading this post. You might be wondering how other bloggers able to show off Contact page with their respective contact information or About page which includes information about contributors and who behind the blog. They are different from publishing regular posts on your blog. In addition to publishing posts or stories, Blogger allows you to publish information mostly native to your blog in a quite distinctive way. So would you like to know how to create standalone pages on your blog too?

How to Customize Fonts and Colors in Your Blogger Template

How much do you care about your blog design? Do you design it by yourself or use a custom template designed by someone else? However it's up to you to decide whether to use official Blogger templates or custom templates. The look and feel of your blog goes with your taste and creativity. Eventhough you satisfies with your template, later on you may wanna make some changes to enhance your blog design and to give it a new look. For example, assume you wanna change page text and its color. In such a situation, do you wanna contact your template designer to make these changes for you?

How to Enable Comment Moderation in Blogger

Reader comments are very useful and it's a great way to get exclusive feedback to your content. By default, Blogger enables comment form to each of your posts and let readers to drop their comments underneath your posts. But sometimes you may find that some users trying to make comments which can be considered as spammy. However, practically you can implement comment guidelines to follow and display them publicly for readers to prevent this abusive behavior. But still guidelines itself may not control spammy comments. So would you like to take control of comments before they published on the page?

How to Integrate Your Google+ Profile with Blogger

Google+ is the social network of the current search giant Google, now evolving on the web and integrating across the other Google products and services as well. Google+ recently introduced Google+ Brand Pages to promote businesses, brands and organizations too. For bloggers, it's a wonderful feature as you can keep your followers interconnected and up-to-date on Google+ as well. Further, now you can integrate your Google+ profile into Blogger too. Excited?

Know Your Feed URLs in Blogger

Have you ever tried to syndicate or distribute your content to another site, on social media or somewhere else? Did you ping your site? Are you going to redirect your site feed to Feed Management Service like FeedBurner? Did you implement email subscriptions for your readers? Whenever you implement those features, gadgets or deal with external services to syndicate your content, you may have been asked for your site feed URL or RSS URL. Did that question prevent you from using a particular service? So definitely may wonder how to find your blog feed or site feed URL. Don't you?

How to Change Your Feed Settings in Blogger

Actually what is a Feed? If you are a newbie for blogging, you might confuse with the term "Feed". Feeds aka Web Feeds, are representation of your exact blog content which may be comments, posts and related post data such as published date, time, author, title, categories. But what is it for? A feed is often XML based lightweight document and it can be distributed on the web efficiently. Site feed allows users to subscribe to it using programs like feed readers or news readers. So its easier for users to keep track of content published on a particular site. But do you know how to change your Blogger feed settings to make use of your site feed?

How to Show Off Popular Posts on Blogger

Do you regularly publish posts or any other media on your blog? As time goes, what happens to your interesting posts? They may bury with the time and fresh content get more exposure. Sometimes people will find them after googling on the web. But do you think its enough? What happen to them after being moved from your homepage? People may visit your blog regularly, but those who are not, may miss the interesting stories. And people those who are visiting your blog first time may unable to read your most engaging and interesting posts. The reason is once they land on your homepage, there is a limited chance that people will explore your older content. So would you mind if you can give more exposure to your archived content?

How to Add Google Analytics to Blogger

How do you track your visitors or find statistics of your blog visitors. Google Analytics is a popular web analytics service which can provide you information about your site traffic and behaviors of the visitors to help you improve the marketing effectiveness. If you are not familiar with Google Analytics already, you might like to read about it in detail - Google Analytics.

Show Off Your Photos using a Slideshow in Blogger

Depending on your blog theme and content, you might add images to represent the ideology of your blog. Or you would like to add images on your blog sidebars to make your blog more colorful and grab attention of your visitors. It may be a personal blog, you may write about travelling, you have a team blog or it may any type of blog. However sometimes you will find that its hard to display collection of images on your blog in a row. You can add standstill images on your posts or even wherever on your blog using HTML image tags. But what if you have large collection of images and how would you show off without spoiling the design?

How to Disable Lightbox Feature in Blogger

Recently you have seen that Blogger has made much improvements to give you modernize blogging experience. Blogger Dynamic Views, New Blogger interface are some of them and more to come. However lately Blogger introduced you a brand new feature - the Lightbox feature. Now this feature is enabled by default for all Blogger users. Does lightbox feature helpful for everyone? It depends. If you had your own method or lightbox solution to display images, then it will override by the default Blogger lightbox feature. So what if you need to have your previous lightbox solution or just need to continue blogging without this lightbox feature?

How to Change the Layout in Blogger

Earlier we discussed about changing Blogger template. But sometimes things won't go right with default methodologies and properties. Eventhough you found best and most suitable template to convey your blog theme, you may not happy with the construction of its layout. May be you wanna change its body layout to add or place particular widgets on specific places in your blog. May be you are aware of its footer layout and seeking a way to change the way it is. Or else you may wandering to see what are the layouts available for you. But how would you figure it out?