How to Create Pages in Blogger

A few months ago Blogger implement one of the most requested changes – the addition of static pages. While there is a limit of 10 pages per blog, allowing the inclusion of pages means that template-hacks are no longer necessary.

Implementing static pages in Blogger is easy to do, and in case you are unfamiliar with static pages, I will outline how to add pages to your blog in this post.

Adding Pages to a Blogger Blog

To add pages to your Blogger blog, use the following steps:

1. Log into Blogger and click the “Edit Posts” link for the blog that will contain the new static page.
2. Once the list of the posts in the blog is displayed, click the “Edit Pages” link near the top of the page.

Note:

If you don’t see the “Edit Pages” option, try using Blogger in Draft to edit your blog.

3. Once the edit pages page is displayed, click the “New Page” button to create a new page.
4. While the editor looks like a post editor, it will actually create a static page. Enter a page title and page content into the editor. The “Post Options” link provides additional options for your page, which are the same ones that appear for a post.
5. Once you are done editing the content of the page, click the “Publish Post” button to save the page.
6. You will be presented with options on adding a page gadget to your blog. You can add a gadget, if you wish, or select the “No gadget” option to manually add the page into your template.
7. Click the “Save and Publish” button to save the page. You should see the “Your page was published successfully!” message.

Once you have created a page, and you haven’t chosen a gadget to display a link to the page, you can manually create a hyperlink to the page. You can use the following steps to retrieve a link to a static page in Blogger:

1. Edit a page by clicking the “Edit Pages” option in the menu.
2. Click the “View” link below the page you want to link with a hyperlink. A new browser window will open with the page displayed.
3. Copy the URL in the address bar by pressing “CTRL+C”.
4. Next, open your template, and create the hyperlink to your new page, pressing “CTRL+V” to paste the URL you had just copied.

A few notes about pages in Blogger:

• While posts include the year and month the post was published in the URL, a page only includes a “p” in the URL. For example:
  http://[blog URL]/p/[page name].html
• Similar to posts, the name of the HTML file for a page is determined by the name of the page.
• As mentioned earlier, many of the additional post options, such as enabling comments, applies to static pages as well.

With the addition of static pages in Blogger, implementing pages such as a “privacy policy” or “about me” page much easier.