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A List of Common Tags in a Blogger Blog Post Header

August 25, 2010 by Paul Salmon

There are many labels and fields that can be modified to change the look of your Blogger blog’s post header. You can choose to use all the available fields, some of the fields, or none of the fields. Since the fields are related to each blog post, you can even display them anywhere on your post, even the footer.

In this post I will list some of the most common data tags you may find in a Blogger template. By using the tags in the list, you can control what information is displayed in each of your blog posts.

Can You Succeed With Google’s Blogger Platform?

January 20, 2012August 6, 2010 by Paul Salmon

It has been just over 3 years since I started Technically Easy. I have learned a lot within those three years, have made some mistakes (still do), met many great people, but more importantly, I continue to learn to this day. When I began blogging I started out on Google’s Blogger platform – mainly because it was a great way of learning how to blog as it was free and quick to setup.

Since that time, however, I have switch to a self-hosted WordPress blog. While there were many reasons why I switched, I still enjoy playing around with Blogger, and the templates. One of the questions that I see raised quite often on various blogs and forums is whether you can succed with Blogger?

How to Create Pages in Blogger

October 12, 2011April 14, 2010 by Paul Salmon

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.

Understanding Blogger Page Types

October 20, 2010December 16, 2009 by Paul Salmon

Understanding the various Blogger page types is important if you plan to edit your own Blogger template. When you know this, then you can display certain HTML elements on specific pages by checking the page type.

In my tutorials I, at times, mention creating conditional statements that check the type of page that is displayed. This is to ensure a particular code statement is executed only for a particular type of page. Let’s look at the different page types.

Display a Blog List as a Static Page in Blogger

October 26, 2013November 4, 2009 by Paul Salmon

Blogger was created to provide an easy way for anyone to create a blog within a matter of minutes. You don’t need to know HTML or CSS to write and publish posts on a Blogger blog, since the user inteface, and templates, do it all for you. While you can edit the code, if you wish, for most people it is easier to simply add gadgets and move them around.

With this ease of use comes some restrictions, such as not being able to create pages that execute code. I have managed to provide alternatives to getting around several restrictions, and today I will discuss another alternative – displaying a blog list as a static page. Doing something such as this was asked a little while ago in my comments, and while I provided a quick reply, I decided to provide a more thorough solution.

Introducing Blogger to the Limit

August 15, 2013August 26, 2009 by Paul Salmon

I have written many tutorials on editing a Blogger template. Many of the tutorials center around creating static pages in Blogger, since Blogger doesn’t natively support static pages. Since I switched to WordPress about a year ago, I haven’t really had a Blogger blog that displayed some of what I discussed.

I decided a few weeks ago to create a new Blogger blog, since I still had an account. I went online and found a template and began editing it and incorporating a few new things that I found. I have called this blog Blogger to the Limit and this post will outline some of the changes that I have incorporated into this blog.

Hiding Static Pages from Main Page in Blogger

October 20, 2010August 19, 2009 by Paul Salmon

Since I wrote the post titled Create Static Pages in Blogger – Part 2 I have been asked on numerous occasions about hiding the static page from the homepage or main page. For blogs without many posts, the static pages may appear on the homepage when someone visits the blog.

It isn’t hard to hide static pages on your blog’s homepage, but it does take a bit of coding, much like it was to create the static page. In this post, I’ll explain what you need to change to prevent the static pages from appearing on the homepage of your Blogger blog.

Remove Navigation Links For Static Pages in Blogger

October 20, 2010July 24, 2009 by Paul Salmon

I recently received a comment on one of my posts that explain how to create static pages in Blogger regarding removing the navigation links. These links are usually located at the bottom of a post and allow a visitor to navigate to the next or previous posts of the current post.

I decided to look into how to do this as it doesn’t seem that difficult to do. After some testing I managed to hide those navigational links from static pages in Blogger. Let’s look at how to do this.