Category: Miscellaneous

Some personal updates, opinion pieces and miscellaneous content

  • Customise the “Newer & Older Posts” Pagination Links on Blogger

    Customise the “Newer & Older Posts” Pagination Links on Blogger

    Today’s tutorial is about changing the links for “newer posts” and “older posts” at the end of your blog under your post section on Blogger. When a visitor clicks on the link for older/newer posts, it takes them to the previous/next page of posts. The number of posts shown on your home page will depend…

  • Change or remove the “showing posts with label” message

    Change or remove the “showing posts with label” message

    When a reader clicks on a label on your blog, they are greated with a message telling them that they are now viewing all of your published posts that are categorised under that label. Todays tutorial will show you how to remove this from your blog or change the text that is displayed as well…

  • How to rearrange your post header and footer – labels, author, date

    How to rearrange your post header and footer – labels, author, date

    When you publish a new post on your blog, information about the post is also displayed – such as the time it was published, the author, the labels attached to the post, the location, share buttons, etc. In todays tutorial I’m going to show you how to rearrange/move those elements in the post header and…

  • How to add a hover over Pin It Button to your Blog

    How to add a hover over Pin It Button to your Blog

    Todays tutorial will show you how to add a hover/mouse over pin-it button to your blog images on blogger. I show you two methods, one for the official Pinterest button and another for adding a custom button. This feature makes it really easy for your readers to save blog posts and images to their Pinterest…

  • How to create a sitemap on Blogger and submit it to Google and Bing

    How to create a sitemap on Blogger and submit it to Google and Bing

    A sitemap is simply a directory of all the pages existing on your site, like a table of contents showing the structure of your blog. Sitemaps help search engines crawl your site and index it properly. Search engines will crawl your site if you have a sitemap or not, but this makes the process easier…

  • How to do a reverse image search – find the original source of any image

    How to do a reverse image search – find the original source of any image

    A long overdue post about finding the correct original source for images and giving proper credit when using images that aren’t yours. Images are an essential part of blogging, helping to attract readers and adding a little something extra to a post. The saying “a picture is worth 1000 words” is extremely relative when it…

  • How to add a blog post divider on Blogger

    How to add a blog post divider on Blogger

    A post divider is simply a line or image, which divides your blog posts. It helps the reader distinguish one post from another when scrolling down through your blog. You can a a minimal line or something that matches your theme. I’ve added some free dividers to the shop if you don’t want to make…

  • How to fix no reply blogger comments

    How to fix no reply blogger comments

    I received a couple of emails lately from bloggers asking why they appear to be a no reply blogger – this simply means that your email address is protected and isn’t being shown when you interact with a blog. It’s actually quite common and not a lot of people realise that they are no-reply bloggers…

  • How to move and remove the header gadget on your blog

    How to move and remove the header gadget on your blog

    On Blogger, the header element is locked by default in the Layout Gadget area. This can cause problems when you are re-designing your blog, especially if you want to put something above your header, move it elsewhere or delete it altogether. This tutorial will show you how to unlock your header gadget so that you…

  • Add a drop down menu that can be styled with template designer on Blogger

    Add a drop down menu that can be styled with template designer on Blogger

    Todays tutorial is a simple CSS styled drop-down menu for Blogger. I have a previous tutorial here for the exact dropdown menu used on misseblog (demo). The problem is, because I styled it to look like the menu on misseblog as requested, some people found it difficult to customise further so I decided to create…

  • How to fix threaded comments and the reply button on Blogger comments

    How to fix threaded comments and the reply button on Blogger comments

    A few people have emailed me about having issues with replying to comments on their blog, after resolving their issues with the reply button I realised that maybe a lot more people are having this problem too so thought I’d write up a tutorial on how to fix it. This can be complicated if you…

  • Introducing Blogosphere magazine issue 1 – an editorial by bloggers for bloggers

    Introducing Blogosphere magazine issue 1 – an editorial by bloggers for bloggers

    I can finally announce something I’m very excited to be involved in – Blogosphere Magazine! Blogosphere Magazine is a new print magazine featuring the very best from the blogging and social media community. It will cover a range of subjects including beauty, fashion, lifestyle, food, photography, travel and parenting as well as interviews, features, news…