How to Add a Static Page in Blogger

1. From your Blogger dashboard, go to “Pages” and click on the “New page” button.

2. While you are using the “Compose view”, give your page a title and add some content. If you need to add codes or iframes, switch to the “HTML view” by clicking on the pencil icon.

Optional: to disable comments for this page, click “Options” on the right side of the editor, then choose Do not allow, hide existing under the “Reader comments” setting. You can read more about managing comments in Blogger here.

3. Once you’re done, click “Publish” on the upper right side of the post editor.

Your screen will return to “All pages” now. To get the link of your page, move the cursor over it and right click on the Eye icon > select Copy Link Location (or Copy Link Address in Chrome).

You can use this link when adding pages to the menu.

Managing comments on the Comments Page

Open your Blogger dashboard and click “Comments”. On the right side you’ll find a list with all the comments visible / published on your blog with several icons providing the following options:

• Remove content of this comment – if you click this icon, it will inform your readers that the “this comment has been removed by a blog administrator”. Keep in mind that the actual text in the comment will be removed permanently.
• Mark this comment as spam – if the comment contains spam links or anything else that is not related to your post, click the “Mark this comments as spam” icon and the comment will be moved in the Spam tab. The comment can be restored anytime via the Spam tab by clicking the “Not spam” check mark icon
• Delete this comment – the trash icon will help you remove the comment permanently
• Mark this comment as not spam and approve – if the comments are moderated, you will also see a check mark to approve the valid contents.

Managing Comments in Individual Posts

To allow or disable comments in individual posts, go to “Posts” and click the post where you want to manage the comments.

When the post editor opens, click “Options” on the right side. The following settings will appear under the “Reader comments” section:

• Allow – choose this option if you want to enable comments on your post
• Do not allow, show existing – choose this option if you want to disable comments but keep the older ones.
• Do not allow, hide existing – this will disable comments and hide any comments that were published on the post.

To save the changes, click the “Update” button on the upper right side of the post editor.

Managing Comments on the Entire Blog

If you want to turn off comments on the entire blog rather than editing individual posts or pages:

Go to “Settings” and look for the “Comments” section.

Click on the “Comment Location” text which will reveal the following options:

• Embedded – choose this option if you want to show the comment form at the end of your post
• Full page – if you choose this option, it will show the ‘Post a comment’ link only instead of the comment form. When the link is clicked, it will send to a separate window where visitors can leave their comments.
• Popup window – rather than being redirected to a separate window, this will open a popup window where you can type your comment without leaving the post page.
• Hide – pick this option if you want to disable comments on the entire blog.

To save the changes, click the “Save” link.

Issue #1: Additional images not showing

Many themes require adding a jump break to show the post snippet instead of the full post. Unfortunately, this function might prevent additional images from appearing on the homepage and you may want to disable it.

How to fix this?

To show more content, you will manually have to remove the jump break from your posts.

1. Go to your post editor and click on the pencil icon located on the upper left side, then select <> HTML view.

2. Click anywhere inside the content area, then press CTRL + F (or Command + F) to open the search box > paste the following snippet inside it (press Enter to find it):

<!--more-->

Live example:

3. You need to REMOVE the snippet, then click the ‘Update’ button on the upper left side of the screen.

Issue #2: Full Post Displaying Instead of Summary

Some of our Blogger templates will use JavaScript to display the post summary. Since the script uses the post title tag inside quotation marks, make sure that the title of the blog posts doesn’t contain double quotes as well.

How to fix this?

The easiest way is to simply edit the post and replace the double quotation marks with single quotes (or any other symbol). However, this may not be the best option if there are lots posts to edit and you may want to skip that process – here’s what you need to do:

1. Go to Theme and click the Edit HTML button:

2. When you see the code editor, left click anywhere on the code area and press CTRL + F (or Command + F) to open the search box.

3. Search for the following code snippet:

&quot;<data:post.title/>&quot;

4. Replace it with:

`<data:post.title/>`

5. Click the Save button to save the changes. For more details, see the screenshot below:

Note: If you find the same code more than once, replace the other identical codes as well. Make sure to not remove the commas or any other code fragments, as this will cause the script to stop running.

Adding labels to individual posts

To add labels to individual, edit your post and click “Labels” under the “Post settings” area.

Type the label that best describes your content. For example, if your post is about making pancakes, type the label recipes or food. You can enter multiple labels, just make sure that you separate the labels by commas.

Once you’re done, click the “Publish” or “Update” button on the upper right side of the post.

Adding labels to multiple posts

If you have many articles published on your blog, adding labels to individual posts may not be the best idea. Fortunately, you can tag posts from the same category straight from your dashboard.

Adding labels to multiple posts is really easy. All you have to do is to select the posts you want to add label to and click on the tag icon.

On the box that appears, type the label(s) you want on the “Add a label” field or select them from the list, then click “Apply”.

The labels should appear on the right side of the post titles.

Important

Proceed with caution when adding labels to your posts. This action will remove the label you wanted to add if the selected post is already tagged with it.

Note: some page elements are locked in order to prevent display problems (i.e. Pages gadget or the Blog Posts section)

After the gadgets/page elements have been rearranged, don’t forget to click on the Save button located on the bottom right side of the page.

Modify the value for the “Number of posts on main page” with the number of posts you would like to show.

After you have changed the number, scroll down at the end of this window and click Save.

Troubleshoot: Blogger main page shows fewer posts.

Step by Step Guide

1. Edit “Header” gadget

To upload an image inside your header, typically referred to as a logo, go to “Layout” and click “Edit” on the (Header) gadget.

Note: Your page elements might look slightly different but the gadget can be easily identified by the (Header) text. If your template provides multiple header locations, you may see more than one.

2. Upload your logo

Click “Browse” and double click on the image that you want to use. Once the image has been uploaded, it should appear in the same window.

3. Change header placement

Check the “Instead of title and description” option below and click “Save”.

Note: before changing this setting, check that your blog is not set to ‘Private’ in the Blogger settings which may be another reason why the widgets don’t appear.

Update Your Feed Settings

To set blog feed to Full, go to Settings and look for the “Site feed” section > click on the Allow blog feed text.

This will reveal a window with additional settings > choose Full and hit Save.

Now you will see additional image sizes to choose from – select Extra large or Original.

With these two options, you don’t have to resize the images and you can use large images as well.

Disable mobile theme

1. Go to Theme > click on the arrow next to Customize > select Mobile Settings.

2. On the Theme > Choose Mobile Theme window, check Desktop and click Save.