Add social media links beneath each blog post
Todays tutorial will show you how to add social media links beneath each blog post on blogger. Add the links in button or text form. This is a handy way of letting your readers know how to contact you, without them having to search around for ways to follow. How to add social media icons…
How to add a Google font or custom font to your Blogger or WordPress blog
Todays post will discuss adding custom fonts to your blog on WordPress and Blogger using Font Directories or Google Web Fonts. Blogger has improved the font collection available in Template Designer, but choices are still limited. One of the best and easiest ways to add a custom font to your blog is using Google Web…
How to add a signature to Blogger posts
I previously wrote a post about adding a signature to your WordPress blog so I thought I would do a tutorial for those of you on blogger. As always with Blogger, coding usually depends on the template you are using so I have two methods below on how to automatically add a signature to the…
How to move date below the post title in Blogger
This tutorial will show you how to move the date below the post title on your Blogger blog. This has been made a lot easier since the Blogger 2013 Update. A lot of people prefer the date beneath the title of the post, here are two ways how to do it (with some styling fixes…
Ultimate guide to Bloglovin’ – common issues resolved and what happened to the platform
What happened to Bloglovin’? Bloglovin’ rebranded to Activate in 2018, becoming an influencer marketplace. The @bloglovin Twitter account has been wiped and instead directs users to @activatesocial_, which has also been shut down. Activate was acquired by Impact, a partnership management platform, in August 2020. However, it seems Activate has been abandoned with the last…
How to edit CSS and tweak your blog design on Blogger
Since Blogger updated its HTML page, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about where to find the b:skin tags, so I thought I’d do this really quick post explaining the CSS section of your Blogger Template. I’ve written a post all about the Blogger update and new features if you want to read that…
Adding Google Analytics to Blogger or WordPress
Todays post will show you how to instal Google Analytics. It’s a really important part of blogging which is often overlooked, but even if you aren’t interested in stats or monetising your site I recommend setting up Google Analytics asap to start collecting data right away. I especially love the Real-Time Feature that lets you…
Prevent referrer spam & links on Blogger
I’ve seen a lot of complaints online recently about inappropriate spam sites that are showing up as linking to your blog, these are known as referrer spam. These type of sites have been around for years and are hard to completely get rid of. Google do delete them but more and more are created daily…
How to add social media buttons to your blog using images with hover effect
Todays tutorial is all about how to add social media buttons to your blog, both on Blogger and WordPress. Social Media Buttons are a great way of adding links to your favourite social networking sites without cluttering it up your blog with a load of text links. Personally, I love social media icons – they…
Beginners guide to the Blogger platform
My recent post was about choosing a blogging platform – WordPress vs Blogger, now that you’ve decided to start a blog on Blogger.com, it’s time to learn a little bit more about it. This guide will give you a quick insight into setting up a blog, finding your way around the dashboard, writing your first…
How to add and align multiple images side by side vertically
Todays tutorial will show you two ways of adding vertical images side by side and making them align correctly with a horizontal image. I go through how to do this on Blogger, but you can also do it on WordPress using the same code. An example of the layout is shown below also. This is…
How to center the header image and header text in blogger
By default, Blogger aligns your header image to the left. The majority of bloggers like to have their banner centred so here are a couple of ways to alter you blog header image so that it sits in the middle of your blog. This is really quick and easy to do but it can make…
Category: Miscellaneous
Some personal updates, opinion pieces and miscellaneous content
