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.

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.

Scroll down and uncheck the Show share buttons option.

Note: if you want to keep the share buttons, you may also consider adding the share by email icon.

To save the changes, click the Save button at the end of the window.

1. Go to “Layout” and click the “Edit” link on the “Blog Posts” element.

2. When the Configure Blog Posts window appears, scroll down and make sure that the Show author profile option is checked.

3. Click the “Save” button at the end of this window.

The author bio box still doesn’t appear

If the author bio box still doesn’t show, you need to check that you have your Blogger profile activated.

1. To activate it, go to Settings and look for the “General” section at the end of the page > click on the User Profile link.

2. In the Edit User Profile page, make sure that you have the ‘Share my profile’ option checked.

3. Upload a profile photo from your computer by clicking ‘Browse…’

4. Scroll down to the ‘Additional Information’ section and use the ‘Introduction’ field to write something about yourself or your blog. This text will appear in the author bio box beside your profile image.

5. Save the changes by clicking the ‘Save Profile’ button at the end of this page.

1. Go to ‘Layout’ and click ‘Edit’ on the Blog Posts gadget:

2. On the window that opens you’ll see several options and settings. First setting is for the main post date (1) and below is for the timestamp format (2).

3. To select the format, click on the drop down as shown below.

Note: Displaying post date is optional as most of the information. You can show only the main date and disable the index date. To hide the date, simply uncheck the box on the right.

4. To save the changes, click the ‘Save’ button at the bottom of this window.

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.