Change and Edit Multiple Labels

The situation is that when we startwriting posts, we assign differentwords as labels to our posts. As we hadmentioned in Technorati Tags inBlogger Posts, such labels are taggedby Technorati and other third partysites and your posts appear in theirtag search results. It is therefore goodto assign the relevant keywords orlabels that can best describe yourposts. Over time, after publishingseveral posts, you may realize thatsome of the labels are not appropriate,or you may simply want to streamlinethe words to make them consistent.Instead of editing each individual post,you can click the Manage Posts link onthe Blogger Dashboard or go toPosting -> Edit Posts. Click the label onthe left panel and you will see a list ofall the posts containing...

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Unable to Remove Or Add Header Image

Uploading Header Image For those who have yet to put images into their Headers, read this how-to guide on Adding a Background Image into the Blogger Header. This Blogger feature allows you to have the image as a backdrop to the Title and Description, or as a replacement to both the Title and Description. If you choose the latter, only the image will be seen and the Title and Description are hidden from view. Removing Header Image To remove or substitute the image, all you need to do is to go back to the Header page element via Template -> Page Elements and click the "Edit" link at the bottom right corner. Remove the picture and save. If, for whatever reason the image cannot be removed, a solution is to remove the Header altogether. As per our article Add Page Element to Blogger Header,...

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Change Post a Comment Link

At the bottom of every article, you willsee the Comments posted by readers(that is if you have configured the blogto Show comments and not Hidecomments) as well as a " Post aComment" link. This is a defaultmessage. To change the words "Post aComment" and rename or customizethem to a message that suits yourblog, we can modify the templatecode.First, backup your template. Go toTemplate -> Edit HTML. Click the"Download Full Template" link to savea copy of your template.Next, click the check-box next to"Expand Widget Templates". Ctrl+Fand search for these lines:-<p class='comment-footer'><aexpr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl'expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'> <data:postCommentMsg/></a></p>Replace the portion...

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Separator Line between Each Comment on Blogger

the readers' comments after each Blogger post come one after the other without a line separating each comment. If your post has numerous comments, it is difficult even for readers to locate their own comments. A solution to this is to add a divider or a separator line after each comment so that readers can easily see where the comment starts and ends. We had explained in our article Author Comments - Different Styles how blog owners can make their own comments different and stand out from the rest. Here, we shall let you know how to insert a divider or underline after each comment to separate the various comments. Login and go to Template -> Edit HTML. Scroll through the template to locate this:- #comments-block .comment-footer { In templates other than the Minima template, you may see...

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Add Scrollbars to Blog Posts

Scrollbars to Blog Post bodyAs we had mentioned in our article, tohave the scrollbars to each of the blogposts, once you are logged intoBlogger account, go to Template ->Edit HTML and scroll to this code. Addthe portion shown in red:-.post {height:200px;overflow:auto;}This will give you scrollbars to everypost:-Scrollbars within Blog PostSometimes, you may not want to havethe scrollbars to all the blog posts, butonly for several paragraphs within apost. Assuming you are writing anarticle and you wish to enclose somelong text within a scrollbox, you haveto first define a class within thestylesheet.For example, we can insert in thestylesheet this code to specify themaximum height and width of thescrollbox. Once the text overflows thissetting,...

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How To Remove Label Number Count In Blogger

By default, the Labels Widget that canbe added into your Blog throughTemplate -> Page Element -> Add aPage Element will have an automaticcount of the number of posts bearingthat label tag.If you don't like to see the count, or youwant to change the brackets to squarebrackets or something else, you canedit the template code. Before anychange, remember to back up yourtemplate. Go to Template -> Edit HTMLand save a copy of your existingtemplate by clicking the "Download FullTemplate" link. Next, check the"Expand Widgets Template" box.We assume you already have a Labelswidget in your Blog. Our task is tolocate this widget in the template. Ifyour Labels widget has a title, it iseasy. Simply search (using Ctrl-F inmost browsers) for the...

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