Category: Miscellaneous

Sharing your blog via social media is a great way of boosting your readership and traffic so it’s important to make it easy to share your blog posts. This tutorial will show you how to manually add custom share links and icons to your blog on Blogger or WordPress. These are typically a lot cleaner…

I’ve received quite a few questions about adding a scalloped edge to your blog since uploading this premade template to the shop. Todays tutorial will take you through how to add a scalloped edge (BG2) to the content area of your blog which sits on top of your blogs background (BG1) as shown below. Use…

I get many comments and emails from readers saying that they are not able to find a certain code in the new HTML editor. The code is present in all of Bloggers default templates, it may look a little different depending on what template you are using and what changes you have made but it…

In my last post, I showed you how to create a circular date header for blogger posts that floats to the side. Todays post will take it a little further, showing you how create a calendar style, your own imagea, a banner style or a triangular date header and how to customise it to suit…

Todays post will show you how to create a circular date header for blogger posts such as the one in the image below. This can be a really cool addition to your blog and something that can be customised to suit your layout and design. As this post was highly requested and codes vary depending…

Over the past year I’ve seen a lot of complaints about the Blogger Dashboard Reading List including newly published posts not appearing, the feed not updating, thumbnails not showing up, etc. I’ve researched this problem with posts or image thumbnails not appearing in the Blogger Dashboard for a couple of weeks now. This seems to…

Many popular sites these days are starting to add a fixed or sticky navigation to help visitors find their way around the site. It means that the reader doesn’t have to scroll back to the top of the page to choose a different page or topic. Instead they have access to the main navigation at…

Many blogs these days consist of two or more topics, your home feed can be a mix of several different things. To make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for, it’s important to have a navigation system. Todays post will show you how to create a basic navigation bar to separate…

A navigation menu is one of the most important things for any website or blog. Think of all the different areas on your blog – all the posts, pages and topics. You want your readers to easily find their way around and to be able to find what it is they are looking for. A…

I’ve been getting a lot of questions this week regarding navigation so the next few posts will focus on different navigations and menus you can create for your blog. Navigation is one of the most important elements to consider when designing your blog. Todays tutorial will show you how to create a drop down navigation…

Todays tutorial will show you how to add rounded corners to your blog images, you can choose to add a small radius or make the image appear circular. This can be a really cool effect for your blog, you can use the code below to add this to any image on your blog. Log into…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…