Using Labels to categorize your Blogger Posts

<b>This article explains how to use Labels to categorise the Posts in your Blog, and how you can get around some of the limitations in Blogger's categorising tools.</b> <br /><br /><div style="clear: both;"></div><a name="more"></a><h2>Why categorise your Posts</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqHxlJtpjugcVD6aTT22HDSBf_H04XoX9QZvkM5ShvS2YIEHm9tHsxmTc0gFLpZ5hoisJUo_6qPte6bpmrdHiT1Pkse6LkBLbE8KwKkCbYjIwLgr4HYnQ_Fy3jVos2KD2Irrag8QFVELdh/s379/labels-categories-for-blogger-post-tagging-subject-area-topics.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="watermelon salad recipe can be labelled / tagged as fruit, salad, dessert and pink" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqHxlJtpjugcVD6aTT22HDSBf_H04XoX9QZvkM5ShvS2YIEHm9tHsxmTc0gFLpZ5hoisJUo_6qPte6bpmrdHiT1Pkse6LkBLbE8KwKkCbYjIwLgr4HYnQ_Fy3jVos2KD2Irrag8QFVELdh/s320/labels-categories-for-blogger-post-tagging-subject-area-topics.png" title="" width="320" /></a></div>Grouping your blog's contents makes it easier for people who have reached your blog via Search to find other posts that they may be interested in - provided you add tools to your blog that let them navigate using labels.<br /><br />It's essential if you want to make it look like you have <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-put-put-posts-into-your-pages-in.html">put your Posts into Pages</a>.<br /><br />And it helps you to find posts yourself.<br /><br /><br /><h2>Blogger's tools for working with categories</h2>The only tool that Blogger provides for categorising or grouping Posts is <b>Labels</b>.<br /><br />In short, Labels are <b>tags that you apply to posts</b>.<br /><br />Each post can have as many Labels as you want (there is an upper limit of 5000 labels-per-blog, but most people don't get near it).<br /><br />And you can use labels for different purposes.  For example, a post titled "Photographing Long-haired Black Cats" could have three different labels<br /><ul><li>Cats - the the animal it's about</li><li>Photography - for the functional category</li><li>Jane Smith - for the author</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2RnsqKLXNH17rv5TiloLz_oLNV60i6kHxIRLHaiLWwglPbmCtEGpzC4fyT2lEd2mANry5lq_OP7cJ3vEE-MWhTKZb0mSrPD09ehN8KnvIAHrrbbkQ5d8C3JxcBBK54owmhVhHi8D_0zbt/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2RnsqKLXNH17rv5TiloLz_oLNV60i6kHxIRLHaiLWwglPbmCtEGpzC4fyT2lEd2mANry5lq_OP7cJ3vEE-MWhTKZb0mSrPD09ehN8KnvIAHrrbbkQ5d8C3JxcBBK54owmhVhHi8D_0zbt/" /></a></div>The <b>Labels gadget</b> lets readers choose which groups of posts to see:  when a visitor clicks an item on the labels gadget, they are shown a list of posts that have the selected label applied to them.<br /><br />You can add the Labels gadget as many times as you like, selecting which specific label values to show each time.   In the example above, you might add it three times, once for ainmals (showing Cats, Dogs and Rabbits), once for function (showing feeding, grooming and photography), and once for author (showing Jane Smith and Joe Bloggs).<br /><div style="clear: both;"></div><br />There are three steps that you need to follow to make effective use of Labels in Blogger.<br /><br /><br /><h2>How to add Labels to your blog</h2><h3>Step 1:    Label your Posts</h3>For each post, add one or more labels.  You can add labels either:<br /><ul><li>In the post-editor, in the <b>Labels</b> section at the right side of the <b>post-editor</b> o</li></ul><ul><li>From the <b>Posts</b> tab, tick the posts you want to put the labels on, and then use the drop down arrow from the top icon that looks like a small luggage-tag:   choose the label or "New label ...").</li></ul><br /><h3>Step 2:    Add the labels gadget</h3>Add the Labels gadget to your blog - the same way you would <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/03/adding-gadget-to-your-blog-using.html">add any other gadget</a> .   You can add it as many times as you need, choosing which labels to show each time.<br />  <br /><b>Warning:  </b>If you choose to show only a certain selection of Labels in a gadget, then <b>this is all that it will show</b> even if you add new labels to your posts later on.  However if you don't restrict which labels are shown, then new ones are automatically shown in the gadget if they are associated with published posts.<br /><br />Drag-and-drop the labels gadget to wherever you want it:  some people put it just underneath their header, to make readers think they've looking at a more traditional web-page.<br /><br /><h3>Step 3:   Add Labels navigation</h3>Another way for your readers access labels is from the display in the post header or footer of the list of labels assigned to each post.<br /><br />This is turned on by default in most themes:  you can change the setting and move it around using post-templete settings found under  <b>Layout > Blog Posts (edit).</b><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>What your visitors see</h2><br /><h3>A List of Posts:</h3>If a visitor to your blog clicks on an item in the labels gadget or in the labels-list that is show for apost, then the "<i><b>labels-view screen</b></i>" is used to show them the <i><b>posts that have the selected label</b></i>.<br /><br />This screen is like the main screen: is only shows a certain number of posts and visitors need to use the newer-posts and older-posts links to move back through the list.<br /><br />Like the main screen, if you have used <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/03/jump-breaks-are-useful-even-if-you-only.html">jump-breaks in your posts</a>, then the list only shows the first part of each post.  If you haven't used jump-breaks, then the whole posts are shown.<br /><br /><br /><br /><h3>A summary message:</h3>Unlike the main screen, in most themes there is a message at the top of the page saying:<br />"<i>Showing newest posts with label </i>WHAT-EVER-YOU-CHOSE<i>. Show older posts</i>"<br /><br />Or if there are no published posts with the selected Label, the message is slightly different.  Some people change their theme to customise or remove this message:  Chuck in The Real Blogger Status has written an excellent description of  <a href="http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2007/07/removing-showing-posts-with-label.html" target="_blank">how to do this</a>.<br /><br /><br /><h2>What Labels aren't - but appear to be</h2>Many people think that Labels are a way of actually putting Posts into pages.  However the Posts aren't actually moved around.  The labels-screen is just a way of viewing a smaller-than-usual group of Posts, and can <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-put-put-posts-into-your-pages-in.html">make it look like you have put your posts into sub-pages</a>.<br /><br /><br /><h2>Making multi-level categories</h2>Currently, Blogger only supports one level of grouping.  The only way you can make sub-groups of Labels is to add two categories to each post - one for the "major" category, and one for the "minor" category<br /><br />For example you might use labels like these<br /><blockquote><table cellspacing="5px"><tbody><tr> <td><b>Major category:  </b></td> <td><b>Minor categories:</b></td> </tr><tr> <td>Recipes: </td> <td>Sweet, Savory, Wheat-free</td> </tr><tr> <td>Party-games: </td> <td>ice-breaker, run-around, silent, outdoor</td> </tr><tr> <td>Music:</td> <td>lively, soft & gentle, traditional, instrumental </td> </tr></tbody></table></blockquote>Each post would need to have at least one label from the major category, and one from the minor categories.<br /><br />If you do this, you need to be clever about adding two levels of gadget, with only a selected group of labels shown in each gadget.   You might even need to edit your theme, to only show certain gadgets in certain situations.<br /><br /><br /><hr /><h2>Related Articles</h2><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/04/posts-pages-and-navigation.html">Posts, Pages and Navigation</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/01/setting-what-goes-on-home-page.html">Setting what goes on the Home Page</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/06/editing-your-blogs-template-advantanges.html">Editing your blog's theme:  advantages and disadvantages</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-put-put-posts-into-your-pages-in.html">Making it look like you have put your posts into pages</a>.

Using Labels to categorize your Blogger Posts

This article explains how to use Labels to categorise the Posts in your Blog, and how you can get around some of the limitations in Blogger...

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How to change Labels on more than one post at a time

<b>This article shows how to edit the name of an existing Label value in blogger, without editing each individual post that it's applied to.</b><br /><br /><div style="clear: both;"></div><a name="more"></a><h2>Blogger and Labels</h2><br /><div class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWk8zWBceDN6u87XkIuOz0hSWGTIC7F1q2bzwrqJPAWzmpmgei_g37OBdHIIhe6qF34XgO5l7AQSlMl7Bo-v30-fy_e0S0jACPdc2XVTA7JPqTeuOcGWY2romPXmOzQKuTY2g7AnW89lXY/s1600/bh-renLbl-750421.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5834869624201807602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWk8zWBceDN6u87XkIuOz0hSWGTIC7F1q2bzwrqJPAWzmpmgei_g37OBdHIIhe6qF34XgO5l7AQSlMl7Bo-v30-fy_e0S0jACPdc2XVTA7JPqTeuOcGWY2romPXmOzQKuTY2g7AnW89lXY/s320/bh-renLbl-750421.png" /></a></div>Previously, I've explained that <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/04/categorising-your-posts.html">labels are tags you can use to categorize your blog posts</a>, and that the are the raw material of <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-put-put-posts-into-your-pages-in.html">putting your posts into pages</a>.<br /><br />But what happens if you want to change the value of a label? For example, if you have a lot of posts that are labelled "Colour", but you find that most of your visitors are from the US and think you have poor spelling!<br /><br />It would be nice if Blogger had a feature that said "change all X labels to Y labels" - but it doesn't (at moment, anyway).<br /><br />One option is to <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/01/editing-published-posts-in-blogger.html">edit each post</a> individually, removing the old label and adding a new one. This works, but can be time consuming.<br /><br />A better option is to use the bulk-labelling tools. This is a lot easier, though not quite as easy as you might think.<br /><br /><br /><h2>Blogger's Post-Dashboard labelling tools</h2>This picture shows the tools that you can use to work with labels (outside of the post-editor).  They are all found on the <b>Dashboard</b> when you are looking at the <b>Posts tab</b>.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQn1ISfRqRZr9F-44LZgbB0f0zNswieXq7FwQ246M85GKKl22JmHuMSO38t4EugPLOy9-2nVqenz3l-MM2lr7NAnm8fjePO7lXhSYWgF8RNtS3mlSfovlhYMhG-WFXZLv6eNqZhyphenhyphen8FypB3/s640/label-bulk-navigation-commands-attach-remove-paging-controls.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQn1ISfRqRZr9F-44LZgbB0f0zNswieXq7FwQ246M85GKKl22JmHuMSO38t4EugPLOy9-2nVqenz3l-MM2lr7NAnm8fjePO7lXhSYWgF8RNtS3mlSfovlhYMhG-WFXZLv6eNqZhyphenhyphen8FypB3/s640/label-bulk-navigation-commands-attach-remove-paging-controls.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br />The <b>Group tick box </b> either selects or un-selects all the posts you can currently see on the Dashboard > Posts tab (depending on whether they're selected or not at the moment - it works like a toggle-switch).<br /><br /><br />The <b>Label action button</b> applies an action to all the posts that are currently selected.   You can:<br /><ul><li>Make a new label and add it to the selected posts</li><li>Add an existing label to posts that don't currently have that label  (by just choosing the label) and are currently selected</li><li>Delete an existing label from posts that do currently have that label  (by just choosing the label) and are currently selected</li></ul><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdIVa0gphi3Wg_chHTuCSuQ3jlkDanyZNfNTxnnUzbUJyGNDu5atZIxauiq3kPmKezFEacghFR41Mm9XUuc_n0gHk_8rHuiPt7_an-KfTsJThd1qHG6MzV8hEgUU8c60rKdX877IZneW45/s430/blogger-nativation-action-drop-down-list-options.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdIVa0gphi3Wg_chHTuCSuQ3jlkDanyZNfNTxnnUzbUJyGNDu5atZIxauiq3kPmKezFEacghFR41Mm9XUuc_n0gHk_8rHuiPt7_an-KfTsJThd1qHG6MzV8hEgUU8c60rKdX877IZneW45/s430/blogger-nativation-action-drop-down-list-options.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Example Label Action Button values</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div>The <b>Label value selector</b> lets you see a list of just posts with a label.</div><div><br /></div><div><br />The <b>Posts-per-page selector</b> is where you select how many of your posts are listed in the Dashboard > Posts tab.</div><br /><br />The <b>Paging buttons</b> let you move through the list of displayed posts.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>How to change a label name</h2>1   Close Blogger, and re-open it again.    (see below for an explanation of this step).<br /><br /><br />2   On the <b>Dashboard > Posts</b> screen, make sure that you are viewing <b>50 posts per screen</b>  (or less if you don't have many posts)<br />Do this with the <b>Posts-per-page selector</b> near the top-right corner. You need to do it because Blogger's bulk-label tools will only let you work with 50 or less posts at a time.<br /><br /><br />3   Select the label that you want to rename from the <b>Label value selector</b> drop-down list.<br />This restricts the list to only posts with that label.<br />If you have more than 50 posts with the label, then there will be more than one screen-full of posts. You can see this in the Paging-buttons at the top right of the screen.<br /><br /><br />4   For <b>each screen-full of posts</b> that is shown:<br /><ul><li>Use the group-tick box at the top of the list of posts to <b>select all posts</b> that are currently on your screen.</li></ul><ul><li>Either choose the new value from the  <b>Label action button drop-down menu </b>- or use the<b> New Label ... </b>option in the first screenful of posts.<b>   </b>This will attach the new label name to the posts you have selected.</li></ul><ul><li><b>Choose the label value from the Label action button drop-down menu</b> to Remove the old label from the posts you have selected.</li></ul><ul><li>Use the group-tick box at the top of the list of posts again, this time to <b>unselect all posts</b> that are currently on your screen.</li></ul><br />After you have done this for <b>all the screens of posts</b> that currently have the old label value:<br /><ul><li>You should be left on the Dashboard > Posts screen, with a message saying that there are no posts with your old label. </li><li>The old label will not be attached to any posts, and will not be visible in the Label-value-selector. </li><li>If you displaying labels with your posts, then visitors to your blog who use a web-browser will not be able to see the old label value any more, and it will not be listed in any Label gadgets you have used.</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>What was the catch?</h2>The approach described here deals with two "twitches" with how Blogger works.<br /><br />Firstly, <b>closing and re-starting Blogger before you start</b> makes sure that absolutely <b>none of your posts are selected initially</b>: I've found that sometimes if a post is selected, and then you page up or down, that post is still selected. And sometimes a post is selected immediately after you have edited it. It can be quite hard to find these (because there is currently no feature to list "selected posts only"), so the re-start is the safest approach.<br /><br />Secondly, there is a <b>maximum of 50 posts per label action</b>. This is a pain: it means that if you want to re-name the label on 300 posts, you need to do it in 6 groups of 50 each times. I can sympathise with Blogger about making sure that actions like this don't take "too long" - but the 50 posts limit does seem very low.<br /><br /><br /><h2>Is the old label gone for good?</h2>This is an interesting question.  Blogger has set a limit of a maximum of 5000 labels per blog. Once you have replace a label value is the way described above, I'm not sure if it will be removed totally, or if it still counts towards the 5000 even though it's no longer in use. (And I'm not about to manually give a blog 5000 labels just to test it to find out!)<br /><br /><br /><hr /><h2>Related Articles:</h2><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-put-put-posts-into-your-pages-in.html">Putting your posts into pages</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/04/categorising-your-posts.html">Using Labels to categorize posts</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/01/editing-published-posts-in-blogger.html">How to edit a post that you have already published</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/11/send-posts-to-twitter-with-feedburners.html">Using Feedburner to Tweet your posts lets you include labels as hashtags</a>

How to change Labels on more than one post at a time

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How to put put Posts into Pages in Blogger

<b>This article shows how to set up your blog, using Blogger, so that it looks like your posts are on separate web-pages.</b> <br /><br /><br /><div style="clear: both;"></div><a name="more"></a><h2>Can you put Posts onto Pages in Blogger?</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2JzFNBCYJsKPqUCq0Ibve8VAOZsl0ABoIMHM4QzERyH2HROGSqy2ifNMWed3NZYxXFiK76qpubxkJvJ8OwwsdgRYMhK5YmAfVPI_MkiP-93lzfh9nt7jXGti-kyc-7NVziOW5KLdZoatd/s440/blogger-insert-posts-into-pages.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2JzFNBCYJsKPqUCq0Ibve8VAOZsl0ABoIMHM4QzERyH2HROGSqy2ifNMWed3NZYxXFiK76qpubxkJvJ8OwwsdgRYMhK5YmAfVPI_MkiP-93lzfh9nt7jXGti-kyc-7NVziOW5KLdZoatd/s200/blogger-insert-posts-into-pages.png" width="200" /></a></div>Ever since Google introduced "pages" into Blogger, people have complained that their posts all go onto the "<a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/01/setting-what-goes-on-home-page.html">home page</a>", and asked how to put posts onto different pages in their blog.<br /><br /><div style="clear: both;"></div><br />The standard, but unsatisfactory, answer is<br /><blockquote>"<i>Sorry, that's not how Blogger works.   So called "static" pages in Blogger are meant to be used for reference information that doesn't change often, which you don't want to be part of your regular post-feed, but which you do want users to have easy access to.</i>"</blockquote><br />Basically, this is part of <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/02/difference-between-pages-and-posts.html">the difference between post and pages</a>.<br /><br /><b>Luckily it's easy to set up your blog so that it looks like your posts are on different pages <a href="http://twitter.com/home/?status=Luckily%20it%20is%20easy%20to%20set%20up%20your%20blog%20so%20that%20it%20looks%20like%20your%20posts%20are%20on%20different%20pages.%20http://bit.ly/HlGT6P%20%20via@BloggerHAT" target="_blank">[tweet this]</a>    (</b>even though you and I know that this isn't how Blogger works) by following three simple steps.<br /><br /><br /><h2>Follow these steps to put your posts into pages</h2><h3>1   Add Categories</h3><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/04/categorising-your-posts.html">Categorise your posts</a> by adding Labels to them. <br /><br />It's your choice whether to add Labels to all posts, or just the ones that you want to show up on specific "pages".<br /><br /><br /><h3>2 Make a "pages look alike" menu bar</h3>There are (at least) are three ways of doing this - described below. <br /><br />When Blogger first implemented static pages that could link to websites, I suggested choosing which ever option suited your blog best. <br /><br />However now, due to <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2013/06/mobile-templates-help-blogger-search-engine-optimisation.html">the increasing importance of mobile themes</a>, <b>I recommend Option c)</b>,<b> </b>because the pages-gadget is the only one mentioned that automatically shows upon mobile-themes.<br /><br /><blockquote><h3><b>a)   With a Labels Gadget    </b></h3>Use the usual <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/03/adding-gadget-to-your-blog-using.html" target="_blank">add-a-gadget approach</a> to put a <b>Labels </b>gadget into the spot where you would put the Pages gadget if you wanted to make a horizontal menu bar with it.<br /><br />If your blog has some Labels that you don't want to have "pages" for, then set it to show only some of your Labels:<br /><br /><h3>b)  With a Linked-list gadget</h3>Use the usual <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/03/adding-gadget-to-your-blog-using.html" target="_blank">add-a-gadget approach</a> to put a <b>Link-list </b>gadget where you would put the Pages gadget if you wanted to make a horizontal menu bar with it.<br /><b>Add a link</b> to the list for <b>each Label</b> that you want a "page" for.   The HTML to use for each Label value is<br /><br />http://YOUR-BLOG-URL/search/label/THE-LABEL-NAME<br /><br />You can also add other items (eg individual Posts, or even Bllogger's static "pages" if you really must have them - see <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/09/bloggers-static-pages-are-more-trouble.html">why I don't like them</a>!) - see the menu bar at the top of this site for an example of this. </blockquote><br /><blockquote><h3><b>c)   With a Pages gadget   <span style="background-color: yellow;"><===   RECOMMENDED APPROACH</span></b></h3>Use the usual <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/03/adding-gadget-to-your-blog-using.html" target="_blank">add-a-gadget approach</a> to put a Pages gadget into the menu bar area.   (You can do this even if you have not created any Pages of content).<br /><br />While you are editing the Pages gadget, there is an  <b>+ Add external link</b> option.  </blockquote><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhurxifizDi-ay4tIDNbaPjyZmfhEUOnSvQPCrgeELB8_8YwdirzY6fF4ss6Z-aVA7mjhzK4oZw9TDrCc2Xz3KWBBfjPSVyBsHQJ6MkSnW0-k5bSONtMfOvs2oe3b0jtiiC_vDpf2TpjJ58/s1600/pages-gadget-editing-options-new.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhurxifizDi-ay4tIDNbaPjyZmfhEUOnSvQPCrgeELB8_8YwdirzY6fF4ss6Z-aVA7mjhzK4oZw9TDrCc2Xz3KWBBfjPSVyBsHQJ6MkSnW0-k5bSONtMfOvs2oe3b0jtiiC_vDpf2TpjJ58/s400/pages-gadget-editing-options-new.PNG" width="346" /></a></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote>Click on this, and add an entry in like the ones described above in he Linked-list gadget option, putting<br /><ul><li> the text you want in your menu bar into the Page title field </li><li>The label search command into the Web address field.</li></ul></blockquote><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOsdi1yotlYMl6jQgLdDLhocB0KrXsAmVvlPbkdGRThK3FPKTXmC33P8QC7O-k2PGZFXHvCnjVD3agLfnCWXOs_07SrDDW8RZur9A50EnWJy6AoVU7w3XgIUwOYVbwYCBE-P2oKXQz9Sna/s512/pages-gadget-how-to-set-up-posts-in-pages-in-blogger.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOsdi1yotlYMl6jQgLdDLhocB0KrXsAmVvlPbkdGRThK3FPKTXmC33P8QC7O-k2PGZFXHvCnjVD3agLfnCWXOs_07SrDDW8RZur9A50EnWJy6AoVU7w3XgIUwOYVbwYCBE-P2oKXQz9Sna/s512/pages-gadget-how-to-set-up-posts-in-pages-in-blogger.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><h3>3   Optional:  Deal with the home-page</h3>If you don't want your posts to appear on the "home page" was well as the topic pages, then there are two possibilities:<br /><ul><li>Use a technique similar to <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/03/displaying-gadget-only-on-home-page.html">Showing a Gadget only on the Home Page</a>  to not show the Blog Posts gadget on the home page.  <br /><br />In this case, the condition to use is !=  instead of ==)   <br /><br />If you do try this, then I strongly recommend that you consider the various options for <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/01/setting-what-goes-on-home-page.html">giving your blog a home page</a>, and make sure you are ok with the <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/06/editing-your-blogs-template-advantanges.html">disadvantages of editing your theme</a>.</li></ul><br />OR<br /><br /><ul><li>Give your blog a "home page" using the custom-redirect option discussed in <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/01/setting-what-goes-on-home-page.html">this post</a>.</li></ul><br />However I generally see this as unnecessary, because in most cases, very blog visitors ever see the home page.<br /><br /><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><br /><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block; text-align:center;" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4862549906412680" data-ad-slot="3409801940"></ins><br /><script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /><br /><h2>Job Done</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEi61TkQniJeBV8lXRfauNQioN9ly6U5UVUZ3W_QTPGBs8dz9DUAFUmcKKS9c0R7OzUT7aU1mOsG4fvijGBLQ2e1vZMMhLiQJsh-oNsAYRK5ZIZQCw_J-AQtD_Fe_Ecrz-EzUmwz5XTHox/s189/Job-done-thumbs-up-success-icon.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEi61TkQniJeBV8lXRfauNQioN9ly6U5UVUZ3W_QTPGBs8dz9DUAFUmcKKS9c0R7OzUT7aU1mOsG4fvijGBLQ2e1vZMMhLiQJsh-oNsAYRK5ZIZQCw_J-AQtD_Fe_Ecrz-EzUmwz5XTHox/s1600/Job-done-thumbs-up-success-icon.png" /></a></div>It really is that simple.  Your readers can now click on the "pages" in your blog from a "menu" at the top, and see a list of posts for the Page that they chose.<br /><br />Even better, if some posts relate to more than one topic, they show up on <i><b>both</b></i> of the relevant pages.    And if you have used the Pages gadget, your blog is well set-up to work with a <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/05/mobile-templates-for-blogger-and-why.html">mobile-theme</a> - which is something that is getting more important every month.<br /><br />Don't forget to test your blog, to make sure that the menu bar is working how you expect it to and that it looks OK, in all the browsers that your readers are <b><i>actually</i></b> using.<br /><br /><br /><br /><hr /><h2>Related Articles</h2><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/04/categorising-your-posts.html">Using Labels to group your Blogger Posts</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/01/page-gadget-menu-bar-for-your-blog-with.html">Adding external and internal URLs to your pages-gadget / menu bar</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/01/setting-what-goes-on-home-page.html">Giving your blog a home page</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/02/difference-between-pages-and-posts.html">The difference between posts and pages</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/03/displaying-gadget-only-on-home-page.html">Showing a Gadget only on the Home Page</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/05/mobile-templates-for-blogger-and-why.html">Making your blog work for people using smartphones and tablets</a>

How to put put Posts into Pages in Blogger

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Delete, change or re-format the "Showing posts with label" message.

<b>This article explains options for deleting, or changing the content or formatting of Blogger's "Showing posts with  LABEL.  Show all posts" message and it's ugly grey box.</b> <br /><br /><div style="clear: both;"></div><a name="more"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif7sQIXQbc2omhvFd8c86cMohwgbnMRsFdCkKQEp-JQgRHQwQkO68JoTElY1zfk1RGNOJcRaqvARQo7Q8cd0fqUNQbaAYRf0VQVNRcxkTUwxjMVOghYTX5e6TS6hywfhTpXwopnrueKlbx/s640/dont-show-or-reformat-status-message-posts-with-labels-blogger.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif7sQIXQbc2omhvFd8c86cMohwgbnMRsFdCkKQEp-JQgRHQwQkO68JoTElY1zfk1RGNOJcRaqvARQo7Q8cd0fqUNQbaAYRf0VQVNRcxkTUwxjMVOghYTX5e6TS6hywfhTpXwopnrueKlbx/s200/dont-show-or-reformat-status-message-posts-with-labels-blogger.png" width="200" /></a></div>If your blog has a <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/03/types-of-blogger-template.html">Layout or Designer template</a>, then when a person who is reading it chooses a label value, Blogger displays a page with (a summary of) your most recent posts with that label.<br /><br />If there are more posts that Blogger is willing to show on one page, then there will also be "older posts" and "newer posts" links at the bottom of the page. <br /><br />And - unless you have removed it - there will also be a message at the top of the page saying "Showing posts with label yourLabel. <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/">Show all posts</a>"<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4TB8sP6EqO_WQRiKzAQAhzn90U0rrV93Ea4oECs7nw1-VI-thHdgzZsxFm8m5d9BxwnXzWnbtp0-KRYxi_1riEFrQo4YhNHeSQovlTqrsjQ-yuBHnapkjAX28Vm8hQ747ETnG1FpSqYin/s639/sentence%2520on%2520a%2520grey%2520background%2520about%2520showing%2520posts%2520with%2520specific%2520labels.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4TB8sP6EqO_WQRiKzAQAhzn90U0rrV93Ea4oECs7nw1-VI-thHdgzZsxFm8m5d9BxwnXzWnbtp0-KRYxi_1riEFrQo4YhNHeSQovlTqrsjQ-yuBHnapkjAX28Vm8hQ747ETnG1FpSqYin/s640/sentence%2520on%2520a%2520grey%2520background%2520about%2520showing%2520posts%2520with%2520specific%2520labels.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><br />Reader actions that cause a visitor to see this message include:<br /><ul><li>Clicking a value in your <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/04/categorising-your-posts.html">Label gadget</a></li></ul><ul><li>Clicking a label value that is displayed in your post header or footer <br />(unless you have turned them off in the Layout > Blog Posts edit option).</li></ul><ul><li>Clicking a link that you have manually set up to show posts with a specific label (eg if you have <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/01/page-gadget-menu-bar-for-your-blog-with.html">used a Pages gadget to make a menu bar</a>, and one of the options in it has a value like http://www.yourBlog.com/search/label/yourLabel?max-results=999</li></ul><br />Unfortunately <b>Blogger does not provide any way to customize or configure this message</b>.<br />.<br />But it is easy enough to totally delete it, or to change the formatting, or to change the text..<br /><br /><br /><h2>How to delete the "Showing posts with LABEL" message</h2>There are two ways that you can remove the <i>"Showing posts with Label.   Show all posts"</i> message.<br /><br /><h3>Option 1:   Remove the code totally.   </h3>To do this,<br /><br />1  <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-to-edit-your-blogger-template.html"><b>Edit </b>your template</a> in the usual way<br /><br />2  <b>Find</b> the following text<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b:includable id='status-message'><br /><b:if cond='data:navMessage'><br /><div class='status-msg-wrap'><br /><div class='status-msg-body'><br /><data:navMessage/><br /></div><br /><div class='status-msg-border'><br /><div class='status-msg-bg'><br /><div class='status-msg-hidden'><data:navMessage/></div><br /></div><br /></div><br /></div><br /><div style='clear: both;'/><br /></b:if><br /></b:includable></blockquote><div><br /></div>3   <b>Delete</b> that text and <b>replace</b> it with<br /><div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b:includable id='status-message'><br /><b:if cond='data:navMessage'><br /><div><br /></div><br /><div style='clear: both;'/><br /></b:if><br /></b:includable></blockquote><br />(If you just delete the text and do not put the replacement in, then it is possible that Blogger will add that section back in again later.)<br /><br /><br /><h3>Option 2:  Hiding the message using CSS</h3>To do this, <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/09/adding-new-css-formatting-rule-to-your.html">add  this CSS rule</a> to your template in the usual way:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq">.status-msg-wrap,<br />.status-msg-body {<br />display: none;<br />}</blockquote></blockquote>(This approach is less risky because you do not need to edit your template, and because it's easier to change later.   But some people have reported that on their template, it has not worked.)<br /><br /><br /><h2>How to change the format of the "Showing posts with LABEL" message</h2>Some people don't mind the actual  <i>"Showing posts with Label.   Show all posts" </i>message.   But they want to format it in a way that suits their blog's layout and colour scheme.<br /><br />This is easily done, by adding some extra CSS rules to your template <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/09/adding-new-css-formatting-rule-to-your.html">in the usual way</a>.<br /><br />To change the format of the message text, use rules like this:<br /><div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">.status-msg-body {</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">text-align: left;</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">line-height: 1.4;   </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">font-weight: bold;</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">color: red;</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">padding: 0.5em 0.3em;</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">width: 100%;</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">}</span></div><div></div></blockquote></div><div><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">To change the grey-shaded background or the box:</div></div><div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">.status-msg-wrap {<br />width: 100%;<br />margin: 0 auto;   /*  keep the auto statement if the width is less than 100%, so the box is centered */<br />position: relative;<br />}</span></blockquote></div></div><div><br />There are a wide range of options - check with CSS reference guides for the options.   You may need to carry out some experiments with your template and how it looks with various options to decide on the best combination for your blog.<br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Consolas, 'Lucida Console', monospace; font-size: 12px; white-space: nowrap;"><br /><br /></div><h2>How to change the "Showing posts with LABEL" message</h2><h2><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">There are several ways that you can change the text in the "Showing posts with Label.   Show all posts" message.</div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><h3>Option 1:   Just replace it with some text</h3></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">To show a sentence of your own instead of Blogger's standard message, </div></h2>1  <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-to-edit-your-blogger-template.html"><b>Edit </b>your template</a> in the usual way<br /><br />2  <b>Find</b> the following text<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b:includable id='status-message'><br /><b:if cond='data:navMessage'><br /><div class='status-msg-wrap'><br /><div class='status-msg-body'><br /><b><data:navMessage/></b><br /></div><br /><div class='status-msg-border'><br /><div class='status-msg-bg'><br /><div class='status-msg-hidden'><data:navMessage/></div><br /></div><br /></div><br /></div><br /><div style='clear: both;'/><br /></b:if><br /></b:includable></blockquote><div><br />3   Replace the <b>line in bold (</b>ie <data:navMessage/> <b>) with your own words</b>. <br /><br />For example, you might say<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><b:includable id='status-message'></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><b:if cond='data:navMessage'></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div class='status-msg-wrap'></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div class='status-msg-body'></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><b>Posts in this category include (use the Older Posts link to see previous posts):</b></div><div style="margin: 0px;"></div></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div class='status-msg-border'></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div class='status-msg-bg'></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div class='status-msg-hidden'><data:navMessage/></div></div><div style="margin: 0px;"></div></div><div style="margin: 0px;"></div></div><div style="margin: 0px;"></div></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style='clear: both;'/></div><div style="margin: 0px;"></b:if></div><div style="margin: 0px;"></b:includable></div></blockquote><br />To show the searched-for label value in your message, you need to use the   <b><data:blog.searchLabel/>  </b> tag. For example, you might say<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b:includable id='status-message'><br /><b:if cond='data:navMessage'><br /><div class='status-msg-wrap'><br /><div class='status-msg-body'><br /><b>Posts about </b><b><data:blog.searchLabel/> </b><b> include (use the Older Posts link to see previous posts):</b><br /></div><br /><div class='status-msg-border'><br /><div class='status-msg-bg'><br /><div class='status-msg-hidden'><data:navMessage/></div><br /></div><br /></div><br /></div><br /><div style='clear: both;'/><br /></b:if><br /></b:includable><br /><div><br /></div></blockquote>Note:  if you are going to use this tag, then you need to choose your label values very carefully, so that they all make sense.   For example, in one blog I have some posts labelled "For quiz organizers" and others labelled "Finance", "Organisation" etc.    There is no way that I can write a sentence including the labels that makes sense for both of these.<br /><br /><br /></div></div><br /><hr /><h2>Related Articles:</h2><div><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/03/types-of-blogger-template.html">Types of Blogger template</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/04/categorising-your-posts.html">Using Labels to categorize your posts</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/01/page-gadget-menu-bar-for-your-blog-with.html">The Pages gadget is a menu bar for Blogger</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-to-edit-your-blogger-template.html">How to edit your Blogger template</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/09/adding-new-css-formatting-rule-to-your.html">How to add a new CSS rule to your blog template</a></div>

Delete, change or re-format the "Showing posts with label" message.

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Customizing Numbered Lists in Posts + 3 Examples

From the Compose tab of a Blogger post, we can create numbered lists using the "Numbered List" tool.<br /><br /><div class="ssmainhide" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1QyU9sDLXrvnHWKCIIlbcBBzhfdMOT1541z0BdiAVRStc0Q42IAwR_QHDMJvhthGU5FCUv-9iYLzKvtfWpP9Yq-Si7EYl_SJW-b2V2b4m1ua6gD7h_nowzrsC1v7rRtQNj4NUWIsRoMJs/s1600/customizing-numbered-list-in-blogger.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1QyU9sDLXrvnHWKCIIlbcBBzhfdMOT1541z0BdiAVRStc0Q42IAwR_QHDMJvhthGU5FCUv-9iYLzKvtfWpP9Yq-Si7EYl_SJW-b2V2b4m1ua6gD7h_nowzrsC1v7rRtQNj4NUWIsRoMJs/s1600/customizing-numbered-list-in-blogger.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg96fQtelCpF0UjEDTZb4n1JJOlFZGYhjEQl_yhKD7T9_Bv4RWBadcCqhifCXiZ_maE3gbsbULGRFCk_mYHndutOXsMDAddP8w56o2QBLCK0VESJIHR3e6Nl0Au67-UrULsTI1xc5IkQRhy/s1600/blogger-post-editor-numbered-list.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="blogger gadgets, blogger widgets" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg96fQtelCpF0UjEDTZb4n1JJOlFZGYhjEQl_yhKD7T9_Bv4RWBadcCqhifCXiZ_maE3gbsbULGRFCk_mYHndutOXsMDAddP8w56o2QBLCK0VESJIHR3e6Nl0Au67-UrULsTI1xc5IkQRhy/s1600/blogger-post-editor-numbered-list.png" title="how to customize numbered lists on Blogger" /></a></div><br />A numbered list is achieved through the HTML code of a "ordered list". You don't have to worry about adding the HTML, because the editor does it for you by using this tool. If you go to the HTML tab, you'll see that the list you created appears something like this:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">   <ol><br /><li>The content of the 1st. element</li><br /><li>The content of the 2nd. element</li><br /><li>The content of the 3rd. element</li><br /><li>The content of the 4th. element</li><br />    etc...<br />  </ol></blockquote>This tool will automatically number each element of the list taking an "order", hence the name "ordered lists in HTML". In each element a number is successively generated (from 1 onwards), though you can not see this in the HTML code.<br /><br /><h3><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Using ordered lists in posts</span></h3>Creating numbered lists is very suitable for giving any instructions. It is ideal for cooking blogs where the steps in a recipe has to be numbered, or in those blogs that share tutorials... but can be used in any type of blog that need to number something.<br /><br />By default, when using this tool, the numbered elements will look like:<br /><ol><li>Nulla tincidunt, neque nec laoreet iaculis, tellus libero sagittis nisl, sed commodo lacus nulla ac sapien. Pellentesque vel magna vitae diam hendrerit bibendum tempus at magna. </li><li>Nulla pellentesque egestas sagittis. Cras blandit bibendum ante nec placerat. Nulla volutpat diam non quam suscipit et ornare nisi porttitor. Quisque eget elit nulla, et imperdiet nisi. </li><li>Vivamus sit amet nibh vel enim aliquam auctor. Phasellus fringilla eros leo, nec varius lacus. Vestibulum id dolor a nisl venenatis varius in nec enim. Pellentesque feugiat arcu ac purus rhoncus dapibus. </li><li>Etiam rutrum quam ac est bibendum cursus. In porttitor nunc odio, vel porttitor nisi. Pellentesque velit est, sodales luctus feugiat et, porta quis lacus. Vivamus non mauris urna, non commodo dui. </li></ol>However, we can <b>customize the elements on the list with CSS</b>. To achieve this, we will rely on this interesting tutorial from <a href="http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201105/styling_ordered_list_numbers/" rel="nofollow">456 Berea ST</a>, that explains a technique in which using some key properties of CSS, we could customize both the numbers of each element in the list, also the content of each element.<br /><!-- adsense -->The trick basically involves canceling the default numbering with "<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">list-style: none</span>", and then use automatic numbering properties: "<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">counter-reset</span>" and "<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">counter-increment</span>". Then the property "<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">content</span>" is added to the index of the counter that is created using the previous two properties.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">How to Add Some Amazing Styles to Blogger ordered lists</span></b><br /><br />Simply choose one of the styles below, then copy and paste the CSS code by going to <b>Template</b> > <b>Customize </b>> <b>Advanced</b> > <b>Add CSS</b>. <br /><br />Some Blogger templates might not allow adding CSS in that location. In that case, for adding the CSS style you need to access the Template's HTML - from your <a href="http://blogger.com/" rel="nofollow">Blogger Dashboard</a>, go to <b>Template</b> > <b>Edit HTML</b> and paste the code just above the <b>]]></b:skin></b> tag (press the CTRL + F keys to find it - you might need to click on the arrow to expand the code and after that search it again)<br /><br /><br /><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">Examples</span></span></b><br /><br />Here are three examples that I have prepared for those of you who want to customize <b>numbered lists:</b><br /><b> </b><br /><b><span style="color: #848484; font-size: x-large;">Style 1</span></b><style>#style1 ol{ counter-reset: li; list-style: none; *list-style: decimal; padding: 0; margin-bottom: 4em; font: 13px 'trebuchet MS', 'lucida sans'; text-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.5); font-weight: bold; } #style1 ol ol{ margin: 0 0 0 2em; } #style1 ol li{ position: relative; display: block; padding: .4em .4em .4em 4em; *padding: .4em; margin: .5em 0; text-decoration: none; border-radius: .3em; transition: all .2s ease-out; } #style1 ol li:hover:before{ transform: rotate(360deg); } #style1 ol li:before{ content: counter(li); counter-increment: li; position: absolute; left: 10px; top: 50%; margin-top: -1.3em; height: 2em; width: 2em; line-height: 2em; color: #fff; background: #FA8022; border: .2em solid #fff; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 8px 5px -7px #888; -moz-box-shadow: 0 8px 5px -7px #888; box-shadow: 0 8px 5px -7px #888; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; border-radius: 2em; transition: all .3s ease-out; } </style><br /><div id="style1"><ol><li>Nulla tincidunt, neque nec laoreet iaculis, tellus libero sagittis nisl, sed commodo lacus nulla ac sapien. Pellentesque vel magna vitae diam hendrerit bibendum tempus at magna. </li><li>Nulla pellentesque egestas sagittis. Cras blandit bibendum ante nec placerat. Nulla volutpat diam non quam suscipit et ornare nisi porttitor. Quisque eget elit nulla, et imperdiet nisi. </li><li>Vivamus sit amet nibh vel enim aliquam auctor. Phasellus fringilla eros leo, nec varius lacus. Vestibulum id dolor a nisl venenatis varius in nec enim. Pellentesque feugiat arcu ac purus rhoncus dapibus. </li><li>Etiam rutrum quam ac est bibendum cursus. In porttitor nunc odio, vel porttitor nisi. Pellentesque velit est, sodales luctus feugiat et, porta quis lacus. Vivamus non mauris urna, non commodo dui. </li></ol></div><blockquote class="tr_bq">.post ol{<br />counter-reset: li;<br />list-style: none;<br />*list-style: decimal;<br />font: <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>13px</b></span> 'trebuchet MS', 'lucida sans'; <span style="color: #38761d;">/* font size of each element */</span><br />padding: 0;<br />margin-bottom: 4em;<br />text-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.5);<br />font-weight: bold;<br />}<br />.post ol li{<br />position: relative;<br />display: block;<br />padding: .4em .4em .4em 4em;<br />*padding: .4em;<br />margin: .5em 0;<br />text-decoration: none;<br />border-radius: .3em;<br />transition: all .3s ease-out;<br />} <br />.post ol li:hover:before{<br />transform: rotate(360deg);<br />} <br />.post ol li:before{<br />content: counter(li);<br />counter-increment: li;<br />position: absolute;   <br />left: 10px;<br />top: 50%;<br />margin-top: -1.3em;<br />height: 2em;<br />width: 2em;<br />line-height: 2em;<br />color: <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>#fff</b></span>; <span style="color: #38761d;">/* text color of numbers */</span><br />background: <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">#FA8022</span></b>; <span style="color: #38761d;">/* background color of numbers */</span><br />border: .2em solid <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">#fff</span></b>; <span style="color: #38761d;">/* border color */</span><br />-webkit-box-shadow: 0 8px 5px -7px #888;<br />-moz-box-shadow: 0 8px 5px -7px #888;<br />box-shadow: 0 8px 5px -7px #888;<br />text-align: center;<br />font-weight: bold;<br />border-radius: 2em;<br />transition: all .3s ease-out;<br />}</blockquote><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #848484;">Style 2</span></b></span><style>#style2 ol{ counter-reset:li; list-style: none; *list-style: decimal; margin-left:0; padding-left:0 } #style2 ol li{ position:relative; margin:0 0 20px 15px !important; padding:4px 5px 4px 10px !important; list-style:none; *list-style: decimal; border-bottom:1px solid #e2e3e2; background:#f2f2f2; text-indent:14px; } #style2 ol li:before{ content:counter(li); counter-increment:li; position:absolute; top:-6px; left:-10px; font-family:'Oswald', serif; font-size:14px; width:20px; margin:0 0 10px 0; padding:4px !important; color:#A5A5A5; text-align:left; background:#e2e2e2; text-indent:6px; text-shadow: 1px 3px 2px #fff; } #style2 ol li:after{ content:""; position:absolute; top:-5px; left:17px; width: 0px; height: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px 0 0 5px; border-color: transparent transparent transparent #aeaeae; } </style> <br /><div id="style2"><ol><li>Nulla tincidunt, neque nec laoreet iaculis, tellus libero sagittis nisl, sed commodo lacus nulla ac sapien. Pellentesque vel magna vitae diam hendrerit bibendum tempus at magna. </li><li>Nulla pellentesque egestas sagittis. Cras blandit bibendum ante nec placerat. Nulla volutpat diam non quam suscipit et ornare nisi porttitor. Quisque eget elit nulla, et imperdiet nisi. </li><li>Vivamus sit amet nibh vel enim aliquam auctor. Phasellus fringilla eros leo, nec varius lacus. Vestibulum id dolor a nisl venenatis varius in nec enim. Pellentesque feugiat arcu ac purus rhoncus dapibus. </li><li>Etiam rutrum quam ac est bibendum cursus. In porttitor nunc odio, vel porttitor nisi. Pellentesque velit est, sodales luctus feugiat et, porta quis lacus. Vivamus non mauris urna, non commodo dui. </li></ol></div><blockquote class="tr_bq">.post ol{<br />counter-reset:li;<br />list-style: none;<br />*list-style: decimal;<br />margin-left:0;<br />padding-left:0<br />}<br />.post ol li{ <br />position:relative;<br />margin:0 0 20px 15px !important;<br />padding:4px 5px 4px 10px !important;<br />list-style:none;<br />*list-style: decimal;<br />border-bottom:1px solid <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>#e2e3e2</b></span>; <span style="color: #38761d;">/* bottom border of each element */</span><br />background:<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>#f2f2f2</b></span>; <span style="color: #38761d;">/* background color of each element */</span><br />text-indent:14px;<br />}<br />.post ol li:before{ <br />content:counter(li);<br />counter-increment:li;<br />position:absolute;<br />top:-6px;<br />left:-10px;<br />font-family:'Oswald', serif;<br />font-size:<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>14px</b></span>; <span style="color: #38761d;">/* size of the numbers */</span><br />width:20px;<br />margin:0 0 10px 0;<br />padding:4px !important;<br />color:<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>#A5A5A5</b></span>; <span style="color: #38761d;">/* color of the numbers */</span><br />text-align:left;<br />background:<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>#e2e2e2</b></span>; <span style="color: #38761d;">/* background color of the numbers */</span><br />text-indent:6px;<br />text-shadow: 1px 3px 2px #fff;<br />}<br />.post ol li:after{<br />content:"";<br />position:absolute;<br />top:-5px;<br />left:17px;<br />width: 0px;<br />height: 0px;<br />border-style: solid;<br />border-width: 5px 0 0 5px;<br />border-color: transparent transparent transparent <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>#aeaeae</b></span>; <span style="color: #38761d;">/* color of the triangle behind */</span><br />}</blockquote><br /><b><span style="color: #848484; font-size: x-large;">Style 3</span></b><style>#style3 ol{ counter-reset: li; list-style: none; *list-style: decimal; padding: 0; margin-bottom: 4em; font: 13px 'trebuchet MS', 'lucida sans'; text-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.5); } #style3 ol ol{ margin: 0 0 0 2em; } #style3 ol li{ position: relative; display: block; padding: .4em .4em .4em .8em; *padding: .4em; margin: .5em 0 .5em 4.5em; text-decoration: none; } #style3 ol li:before{ content: counter(li); counter-increment: li; position: absolute; left: -30px; top: 50%; margin-top: -1em; background: #bada55; height: 2em; width: 2em; line-height: 2em; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; } #style3 ol li:after{ position: absolute; content: ''; left: -5px; margin-top: -.7em; top: 50%; width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid transparent; border-bottom: 8px solid transparent; border-left:8px solid #bada55; } </style><br /><div id="style3"><ol><li>Nulla tincidunt, neque nec laoreet iaculis, tellus libero sagittis nisl, sed commodo lacus nulla ac sapien. Pellentesque vel magna vitae diam hendrerit bibendum tempus at magna. </li><li>Nulla pellentesque egestas sagittis. Cras blandit bibendum ante nec placerat. Nulla volutpat diam non quam suscipit et ornare nisi porttitor. Quisque eget elit nulla, et imperdiet nisi. </li><li>Vivamus sit amet nibh vel enim aliquam auctor. Phasellus fringilla eros leo, nec varius lacus. Vestibulum id dolor a nisl venenatis varius in nec enim. Pellentesque feugiat arcu ac purus rhoncus dapibus. </li><li>Etiam rutrum quam ac est bibendum cursus. In porttitor nunc odio, vel porttitor nisi. Pellentesque velit est, sodales luctus feugiat et, porta quis lacus. Vivamus non mauris urna, non commodo dui. </li></ol></div><blockquote class="tr_bq">.post ol{<br />counter-reset: li;<br />list-style: none;<br />*list-style: decimal;<br />padding: 0;<br />margin-bottom: 4em;<br />font: <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>13px</b></span> 'trebuchet MS', 'lucida sans'; <span style="color: #38761d;">/* font size of each element */</span><br />text-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.5);<br />}<br />.post ol li{<br />position: relative;<br />display: block;<br />padding: .4em .4em .4em .8em;<br />*padding: .4em;<br />margin: .5em 0 .5em 4.5em;<br />text-decoration: none;<br />}<br />.post ol li:before{<br />content: counter(li);<br />counter-increment: li;<br />position: absolute;   <br />left: -30px;<br />top: 50%;<br />margin-top: -1em;<br />background: <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>#bada55</b></span>; <span style="color: #38761d;">/* background color of the numbers */</span><br />height: 2em;<br />width: 2em;<br />line-height: 2em;<br />text-align: center;<br />font-weight: bold;<br />}<br />.post ol li:after{<br />position: absolute;<br />content: '';<br />left: -5px;<br />margin-top: -.7em;   <br />top: 50%;<br />width: 0; <br />height: 0; <br />border-top: 8px solid transparent;<br />border-bottom: 8px solid transparent; <br />border-left:8px solid <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>#bada55</b></span>; <span style="color: #38761d;">/* background color of the right arrow*/</span><br />}</blockquote><b>Note:</b> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>In blue</b></span> are highlighted the values that can be edited in the CSS of these three examples, and added some comments highlighted in<span style="color: #6aa84f;"> <span style="color: #38761d;">/* green */</span></span>, so that you can know what each thing does.<br /><br /><b>Compatibility:</b><br /><br />This will work in all browsers including IE8 - in the case of Internet Explorer 7, the number' styles will not be seen as it does not support the :before or :after pseudo-elements. However, I have added a line in the CSS that's specific for that browser and will bring up the default numbering of the ordered list.<br /><br />Hopefully this will be useful for you ;)

Customizing Numbered Lists in Posts + 3 Examples

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Removing the label values from the blog-post header or footer

<b>This article explains how to stop label values from showing in the header or footer lines for each post in a blog that is made with Google's Blogger.</b><br /><br /><br /><div style="clear: both;"></div><a name="more"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5KXieAM1fv8foyaby6juUEW9NzeyFw9inL37XFQ5D55vDgtTyfI-TQoo2I9rulb1krXoL1Ao4zoucIEY7gEDGzMb91XtEi1bSzWBNGOndIoAVmg5LvRzGNMseh5WoE742T3_Kg5RX4kn3/s516/remove-category-labels-from-blogger-post-top-or-bottom-positions.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5KXieAM1fv8foyaby6juUEW9NzeyFw9inL37XFQ5D55vDgtTyfI-TQoo2I9rulb1krXoL1Ao4zoucIEY7gEDGzMb91XtEi1bSzWBNGOndIoAVmg5LvRzGNMseh5WoE742T3_Kg5RX4kn3/s320/remove-category-labels-from-blogger-post-top-or-bottom-positions.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>If you have used the Labels / Page-gadget approach to <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-put-put-posts-into-your-pages-in.html">putting your blogposts into separate pages</a>, then each of your posts will have one or more Labels <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/04/categorising-your-posts.html">attached</a> to them.<br /><br />Most Blogger templates are set up so that these label values are shown with the posts, too, in either just underneath the post-title or in the post-footer. And <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/04/posts-pages-and-navigation.html">when a reader clicks one of these post-specific label values</a>, they are shown a "post-listing format" blog page, which includes (<a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/03/jump-breaks-are-useful-even-if-you-only.html">the first part</a> of) all posts which have that label.<br /><br />However some people want to stop their blogs from displaying this these label values perhaps because:<br /><ul><li>They want their blog to <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.ie/2012/11/use-blogger-to-make-a-website.html">look more like a real website</a></li><li>They are using some labels which are meaningful to them as administrators but not to readers (eg at the moment, I'm using a label "ZZZ - needs 2013 review" to identify posts that I need to check to make sure they're up to date.</li><li>They just don't like having the label list shown for each post.</li></ul><br />Note that you can select which Label values are shown in the Label <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/03/adding-gadget-to-your-blog-using.html">gadget</a>, but there is no way to do this in the label list shown for each post.<br /><br /><br /><h2>How to turn off the list of labels shown with each blog-post</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><b><br /></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsEYlH64FL1Tb4GhSQkT3O4eQyQKzXLIgw6RN_GJeCbNAhz533sQ-D6rmcSJoPql9CZZUEbvicI3cCQDpLlS9uCA77hxvCkWo-wA4NhAlpFdUlhgMvGK3va_WME4PJwQhcw9ClrXPYdI0N/s512/untick-labels-item-in-blog-post-gadet-settings-editing-screen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsEYlH64FL1Tb4GhSQkT3O4eQyQKzXLIgw6RN_GJeCbNAhz533sQ-D6rmcSJoPql9CZZUEbvicI3cCQDpLlS9uCA77hxvCkWo-wA4NhAlpFdUlhgMvGK3va_WME4PJwQhcw9ClrXPYdI0N/s320/untick-labels-item-in-blog-post-gadet-settings-editing-screen.jpg" width="243" /></a></div><b>Log in</b> to the Blogger dashboard with an account that has <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2011/12/setting-up-new-administrator-for-your.html">administrative rights</a> to the blog<br /><br /><br />Choose <b>Layout</b> from the options for the blog<br /><br /><br />Locate the <b>Blog Post gadget</b> in layout screen, and click the <b>Edit</b> link for it.<br /><br /><br />In the list of options that is shown, un-tick the <b>Labels</b> option<br /><br /><br />Save the changes, using the <b>Save</b> button (currently in the bottom left corner)<br /><br /><br />Click the <b>Save Arrangement</b> button for the layout (currently in the top right corner of the layout editor).<br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Job done!</b> The next time anyone looks at your blog, the list of labels for each post should not be visible.<br /><br /><br /><h2>Troubleshooting</h2>Sometimes, changes that are made in the Blog Post gadget don't appear to have been applied when people look at your blog. For example, the labels may still be shown for each post, even though the Labels check-box is turned off.<br /><br />If this happens, the most likely cause is that your post template (ref: <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-data-in-blogger-blogs-is-organised.html">parts of a blogger blog</a>) has become corrupt. The only ways I know to fix this are to either<br /><ul><li>Change to a different template:<br />This needs to be a total change, eg Simple to Picture Window, not just changing from one to another option within the same template.</li><li>Resetting the blog-post gadget - described in detail <a href="http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2010/05/resetting-post-template.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</li></ul><br />The disadvantage of of either of these approaches is that customizations you have made to your blog are lost - this can be easy to forget when your customizations include important-but-more-subtle things like <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2013/05/get-adsense-data-in-google-analytics-for-more-than-one-site.html">ensuring your Analytics profile gets Adsense data</a> or <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2013/06/add-facebook-open-graph-tags-to-blogger-for-better-looking-shares-and-likes.html">installing Facebook Open-Graph tags</a> - or just plain annoying if you have <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/03/putting-facebook-share-this-badge-on.html">put sharing buttons into individual posts</a>, and have to re-instate these<br /><br /><br /><br /><hr /><h2>Related Articles:</h2><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-data-in-blogger-blogs-is-organised.html">What are the components of a Blogger blog</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-put-put-posts-into-your-pages-in.html">How to put posts into pages in blogger</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/04/categorising-your-posts.html">Labels: a way to categorize Blogger posts</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/04/posts-pages-and-navigation.html">Posts and Pages - navigating while you are reading a blog</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.ie/2012/11/use-blogger-to-make-a-website.html">Making a blog look like a real website</a>

Removing the label values from the blog-post header or footer

This article explains how to stop label values from showing in the header or footer lines for each post in a blog that is made with Google...

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Show Recent Posts With Thumbnails For Particular Label or Category in Blogger

Sometimes we want to have everything organized, so that our readers can find topics of interest more easily. To accomplish this, instead of putting a widget with the latest posts, we can put together the latest entries sorted by category, so that we'll be able to show the latest posts for each label we want and also display a thumbnail for our category.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCUmztHnlugt9gz8ifAnDx2LpWizTf38XFX9zyq7wqQkGne4pb27QlmQ0Oywkj3b37lWDVOif9JXk3Dh4uRb02AYuEaAJriyHDALJh-fSJ1OUFqe_B03mXABNFmDHeSNy9fcs0l01XwKuq/s1600/recent-posts-widget-by-labels-for-blogger-blogspot.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="recent posts by labels" border="0" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCUmztHnlugt9gz8ifAnDx2LpWizTf38XFX9zyq7wqQkGne4pb27QlmQ0Oywkj3b37lWDVOif9JXk3Dh4uRb02AYuEaAJriyHDALJh-fSJ1OUFqe_B03mXABNFmDHeSNy9fcs0l01XwKuq/s1600/recent-posts-widget-by-labels-for-blogger-blogspot.png" title="Recent Posts widget by labels or category for Blogger" width="400" /></a></div><br />To add this recent posts widget for labels or categories in a Blogger blog, follow the next steps:<br /><br /><h2>Recent Posts with Thumbnails Sorted by Labels</h2><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Step 1.</b></span> From your <a href="https://www.blogger.com/home" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blogger Dashboard</a>, go to 'Template' and click the 'Edit HTML' button<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsLA2xqRpKDmu9DNin2il14ygiFmHb-8UFXoU-kM-ZGnk0dPslBj5AkipAi_P3QFWHaeJE1fQlwQ6XEdGLhJJOAHupByoWTM35IbfnHusM5x7TwcrgRVZx7mSGiVS9Db6ccU92aAVpBwRr/s1600/blogger-template-edit-html.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsLA2xqRpKDmu9DNin2il14ygiFmHb-8UFXoU-kM-ZGnk0dPslBj5AkipAi_P3QFWHaeJE1fQlwQ6XEdGLhJJOAHupByoWTM35IbfnHusM5x7TwcrgRVZx7mSGiVS9Db6ccU92aAVpBwRr/s1600/blogger-template-edit-html.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Step 2. </b></span>Click anywhere inside the code area and search (CTRL + F) for this piece of code:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">]]></b:skin></blockquote><br />Just above <span style="background-color: yellow;">]]></b:skin></span>, paste this CSS style:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">/* Recent posts by labels<br />--------------------------------- */ <br />img.label_thumb{<br />float:left;<br />margin-right:10px !important;<br />height:65px; <span style="color: #38761d;">/* Thumbnail height */</span><br />width:65px; <span style="color: #38761d;">/* Thumbnail width */</span><br />border: 1px solid #fff;<br />-webkit-border-radius: 10px;<br />-moz-border-radius: 10px;<br />border-radius: 10px;<br />-webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, .4);<br />-moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, .4);<br />box-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, .4);<br />}<br /><br />#label_with_thumbs {<br />float: left;<br />width: 100%;<br />min-height: 70px;<br />margin: 0px 10px 2px 0px;<br />padding: 0;<br />}<br />ul#label_with_thumbs li {<br />padding:8px 0;<br />min-height:65px;<br />margin-bottom:0px;<br />border-bottom: 1px dotted #999999;<br />}<br /><br />#label_with_thumbs li{<br />list-style: none ;<br />padding-left:0px !important;<br />}<br /><br />#label_with_thumbs a { text-transform: uppercase;}<br />#label_with_thumbs strong {padding-left:0px; }</blockquote><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Step 3.</b></span> Now try to find this tag: <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"></head></blockquote>... just above <span style="background-color: yellow;"></head></span> add this script:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><script type='text/javascript'><br />//<![CDATA[<br />function labelthumbs(json){document.write('<ul id="label_with_thumbs">');for(var i=0;i<numposts;i++){var entry=json.feed.entry[i];var posttitle=entry.title.$t;var posturl;if(i==json.feed.entry.length)break;for(var k=0;k<entry.link.length;k++){if(entry.link[k].rel=='replies'&&entry.link[k].type=='text/html'){var commenttext=entry.link[k].title;var commenturl=entry.link[k].href;}<br />if(entry.link[k].rel=='alternate'){posturl=entry.link[k].href;break;}}var thumburl;try{thumburl=entry.media$thumbnail.url;}catch(error)<br />{s=entry.content.$t;a=s.indexOf("<img");b=s.indexOf("src=\"",a);c=s.indexOf("\"",b+5);d=s.substr(b+5,c-b-5);if((a!=-1)&&(b!=-1)&&(c!=-1)&&(d!="")){thumburl=d;}else thumburl='<span style="color: blue;">https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYA8zx9YoifqSHlBOQPFHkkPwsoedGEyunkO6IzLnd1Fg7mkXcYLJoV76BFrwx-HDr0Y0pHoFL03ph5-I_pXEeluE1TiGrs_N3mt0pQQeMTaL8Ptn7DE8-gRZJv_Ul_1GoLxHY22Nm_iI/s1600/picture_not_available.png</span>';}<br />var postdate=entry.published.$t;var cdyear=postdate.substring(0,4);var cdmonth=postdate.substring(5,7);var cdday=postdate.substring(8,10);var monthnames=new Array();monthnames[1]="Jan";monthnames[2]="Feb";monthnames[3]="Mar";monthnames[4]="Apr";monthnames[5]="May";monthnames[6]="June";monthnames[7]="July";monthnames[8]="Aug";monthnames[9]="Sept";monthnames[10]="Oct";monthnames[11]="Nov";monthnames[12]="Dec";document.write('<li class="clearfix">');if(showpostthumbnails==true)<br />document.write('<a href="'+posturl+'" target ="_top"><img class="label_thumb" src="'+thumburl+'"/></a>');document.write('<strong><a href="'+posturl+'" target ="_top">'+posttitle+'</a></strong><br>');if("content"in entry){var postcontent=entry.content.$t;}<br />else<br />if("summary"in entry){var postcontent=entry.summary.$t;}<br />else var postcontent="";var re=/<\S[^>]*>/g;postcontent=postcontent.replace(re,"");if(showpostsummary==true){if(postcontent.length<numchars){document.write('');document.write(postcontent);document.write('');}<br />else{document.write('');postcontent=postcontent.substring(0,numchars);var quoteEnd=postcontent.lastIndexOf(" ");postcontent=postcontent.substring(0,quoteEnd);document.write(postcontent+'...');document.write('');}}<br />var towrite='';var flag=0;document.write('<br>');if(showpostdate==true){towrite=towrite+monthnames[parseInt(cdmonth,10)]+'-'+cdday+' - '+cdyear;flag=1;}<br />if(showcommentnum==true)<br />{if(flag==1){towrite=towrite+' | ';}<br />if(commenttext=='1 Comments')commenttext='1 Comment';if(commenttext=='0 Comments')commenttext='No Comments';commenttext='<a href="'+commenturl+'" target ="_top">'+commenttext+'</a>';towrite=towrite+commenttext;flag=1;;}<br />if(displaymore==true)<br />{if(flag==1)towrite=towrite+' | ';towrite=towrite+'<a href="'+posturl+'" class="url" target ="_top">More »</a>';flag=1;;}<br />document.write(towrite);document.write('</li>');if(displayseparator==true)<br />if(i!=(numposts-1))<br />document.write('');}document.write('</ul>');}<br />//]]><br /></script></blockquote><i><b>Note: </b>to add your own pic for the posts with no thumbnail, replace the image url in blue with your own</i><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Update!</b></span> For a better image resolution add this script above the <span style="background-color: yellow;"><b></body></b></span> tag:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><script type='text/javascript'>                   <br />function changeThumbSize(id,size){<br />var blogGadget = document.getElementById(id);<br />var replacement = blogGadget.innerHTML;<br />blogGadget.innerHTML = replacement.replace(/s72-c/g,"s"+size+"-c");<br />var thumbnails = blogGadget.getElementsByTagName("img");<br />for(var i=0;i&lt;thumbnails.length;i++){ <br />thumbnails[i].width = size; <br />thumbnails[i].height = size; <br />}<br />}<br />changeThumbSize("label_with_thumbs",210);              <br /></script></blockquote>Now Save the template to finish with your changes.<br /><br />So, what we have added, is the CSS to style the widget and the script to make it work. Now all we have to do is to add the widget's code to the blog sidebar in a HTML/JavaScript gadget:<br /><br /><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Step 4.</b></span> Go to Layout - click on Add a Gadget<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJU2lzoWVeWLCiUefnIuDz5AjTo0tlM9RmbWxvgKUc7PkumWzyFu-Wf9NxMpcWXK1MpP9JSHNZ20pE6aKOxsb45L1APdw6_Rg1Og3SlMFHWgI0bT7UGqg30Ihyx9L4kEIpdso9nC2NKKO_/s1600/blogger-layout-add_a_gadget-how-to.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="blogger layout, add a gadget" border="0" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJU2lzoWVeWLCiUefnIuDz5AjTo0tlM9RmbWxvgKUc7PkumWzyFu-Wf9NxMpcWXK1MpP9JSHNZ20pE6aKOxsb45L1APdw6_Rg1Og3SlMFHWgI0bT7UGqg30Ihyx9L4kEIpdso9nC2NKKO_/s1600/blogger-layout-add_a_gadget-how-to.png" title="Recent Posts widget by categories or labels" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Step 5.</b></span> From the pop-up window, choose the HTML/Javascript widget and paste this script inside the empty box:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><script type='text/javascript'>var numposts = 3;var showpostthumbnails = true;var displaymore = false;var displayseparator = true;var showcommentnum = false;var showpostdate = false;var showpostsummary = true;var numchars = 100;</script> <br /><script type="text/javascript" src="/feeds/posts/default/-/<span style="color: #cc0000;">Name-of-the-label</span>?published&alt=json-in-script&callback=labelthumbs"></script></blockquote><br /><b>Note:</b> Where it says <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Name-of-the-label</span> </span>should be the name of the label that you want to display, and if your label is case sensitive, like in my example, then you should type it that way.<br /><br />Within the last code, there are these parts which can be customized - change <i>true </i>with <i>false </i>or vice versa:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">var numposts <span style="color: #666666;">← Number of posts to display</span><br />var showpostthumbnails <span style="color: #666666;">← Show/hide thumbnails</span><br />var displaymore <span style="color: #666666;">← Show or hide the read more link</span><br />var displayseparator <span style="color: #666666;">← Show/hide separator</span><br />var showcommentnum<span style="color: #666666;"> ← Show/hide the number of comments</span><br />var showpostdate <span style="color: #666666;">← Show/hide the posts dates</span><br />var showpostsummary <span style="color: #666666;">← Show or not the posts summaries</span><br />var numchars <span style="color: #666666;">← Number of posts characters (here you have to change the 100 value)</span></blockquote>Remember that the gadget displays the latest posts from a particular label... therefore, if you want to display the latest posts from other labels, repeat step 5 for each additional category that you want to add.<br /><br />That's it :) Enjoy!

Show Recent Posts With Thumbnails For Particular Label or Category in Blogger

Sometimes we want to have everything organized, so that our readers can find topics of interest more easily. To accomplish this, instead of ...

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