Posts tagged blogger hacks

Read More… in blogger main page

Apr 18th

Posted by Gautam in blogger

7 comments

In many professional websites you see posts with a short summary and link to the full post. Links like “Read More” “Continue Reading” and “More” are some of the text which link to the full post. This type displays maximum posts in minimum space. And it is a very good way to show content on your website so that readers read what they like.

Here’s how you can add this to your Blogger blog (Source: blogger help): 1. Go to Layout->Edit Html 2. Download Full Template 3. Check the Expand Widget Templates 4. Just search for this code

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and then paste this More >

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Removing Navbar From Blogger

Apr 10th

Posted by Gautam in blogger

1 comment

Navbar is a small toolbar provided by blogger.com which is placed at the the top of your blogger blog. It looks like this:

Blogger Navbar

Some people would like to remove this toolbar because it may not look good or may not match with the template. Here’s how you can remove the navbar: 1. Go to Layout->Edit Html 2. Download Full Template 3. Check the Expand Widget Templates 4. Search for this code

<b:skin><![CDATA[/

5. Below the above code paste the code below

#navbar-iframe { height:0px; visibility:hidden; display:none; }

6. Save the Template

After this your navbar is completely removed.

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Replace tags with an Image

Apr 9th

Posted by Gautam in blogger

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The tags can be replaced by an image of your choice in blogger by just replacing and adding small pieces of code in the template by using Edit Html of the layout.

Preview:

Here is what you should do: 1. Go to Layout->Edit Html 2. Download Full Template (This is to backup your template) 3. Check the Expand Widget Templates 4. Now search for the code below

<span class=’post-labels’> <b:if cond=’data:post.labels’> <data:postLabelsLabel/>

5. Replace the code in bold by this code:

<img src=’http://bloggertipspro.googlepages.com/tags.png’ style=’border:none; background:#FFFFFF;’ title=’Tags’/>

You can replace this http://bloggertipspro.googlepages.com/tags.png by the link of the image you want to display

6. Save the Template

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Replace Home and Posts Links by images in Blogger

Apr 3rd

Posted by Gautam in blogger

4 comments

Navigation Links in Blogger are visible as text links usually at the bottom of each page. It is always good to have images as links for navigation, simple text links usually do not attract attention but image links accentuate the navigation links. This hack will show that just by uploading the images and replacing some code in your template, your image navigation links will be up and running.

The new navigation links will look like this:

You can have images other than these for home and post links(newer and older).

Here is a simple hack to replace text in navigation links to images:

1. More >

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