For many blog authors, Wordpress is the management system of choice. It provides the most flexibility and options for managing blogs. For those that are not using Wordpress, Blogger is a good, free option. Blogger, however, is not nearly as flexible to use as Wordpress. There are fewer options and templates for that system. The one drawback of using Blogger is the inability of uploading, and using static HTML pages.
There is a simple workaround that you can use to create pages in your Blogger blog that will mimic static pages. I will discuss how to create and use those pages in this post.
The only option, at the time of this post, to creating static HTML pages in a Blogger blog is by using posts. Now you can easily create an HTML page on another server and then link to it from your blog, but it is much easier to use posts as they will include your template.
When creating the static pages, there are a few things that I would like to point out:
I will now show you how to accomplish the above points easily within Blogger. We will be creating a post that will act like a static page on your Blogger blog.
Now we have a new post that has a past date and doesn’t allow comments. The next steps will prevent the post date from being displayed.
This tells Blogger to only display the post date if comments are allowed for the post. Since we disabled comments, the post date won’t be displayed.
Now load up the new page to see if it is displayed as you would like. You can now link to that page from anywhere on your blog, or another Web site.
If you would like to allow comments on your static page, and would also like to prevent the static pages from appearing in the archives, check out Creating Static Pages in Blogger - Part 2.
Blogger doesn’t have the ability to add static HTML pages to your blog. To mimic static HTML pages, you can simply create a past-dated post and link to it as if it were a static HTML page. This post also showed how you can prevent the post date from being displayed to make it look even more like a static page instead of a post.
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Wow. That was a great post!
Thanks. I believe that this is one of the easier ways (that i found) to create a static page.
You are my hero;-) That's the best & easier way to create static-like page in Blogger i found! And what's the most importent, with this 'hack' you can hide everything you want! labels, author, even hole post footer lines…
Big thanks!
This is a truly awesome, simple and effective hack for removing the date on static pages. Thanks for the insight — it’s made Shirts on Sale look that much better.
THIS IS amazing! The only downside is to be seen on my website http://www.mds2009.com. As you can see the middle text is not in sync anymore with the text on the sidebars as it should be and can be seen on http://www.mds2009.com/1999/08/guestbook.html. This is another downside…The Guestbook should not have a date as it is static…, BUT should allow comments.
Is there a possibility to create an empty line whenever comments are not allowed to correct issue 1 as mentioned above??????
actually re above…I did not think..I guess I can just add an empty line myself on all the static pages…so the only issue remains my Guestbook but that I can live with. GREAT!
@John: You can try my other method of creating static pages. You can read it at: http://technicallyeasy.net/2008/07/creating-static-pages-in-blogger-part-2/.
I will include a link to it at the end of this post.
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Paul, this does not work in one of the most popular templates as “” does not exist in here.
http://www.eblogtemplates.com/ads-theme-blogger/
I just hope we can get this to work.
Thanks, John
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I tried all here to hide my static page post,but still it says
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Open quote is expected for attribute “{1}” associated with an element type “cond”.
please help
@Gen: Check your if statement to ensure you have closed all of your quotes. If you would like me to have a look, then just send me your template, in an e-mail.
To fix this problem, add this to the HTML:
NOT THIS: