How to Remove Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) Link at the bottom of Blogger Template

A blogger who read my blog, send me an email and ask that how to remove “Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)” link at the bottom of his blogger template. So I thought that it is good to post article about “how to remove “Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)” link at the bottom of the blogger template because some bloggers have this problem. So if you need to remove this “Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)” link, follow the instruction below.


1. Go to Template

2. Click edit HTML tab

3. Click Proceed tab

4. Click on "Expand Widget Templates"

5. Find below code ( Help )

<b:include name='feedLinks'/>

6. Now delete that code

7. Save your Template

Now view your blog :-)       

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How to create Automatic Jump breaks on home page with post summery and image thumbnail

Adding Automatic Jump breaks to blogger template is very easy than adding Jump breaks to each post manually. I found a little script than can grab a little summery of your post and a predefined size thumbnail to create smaller posts with read more button. Most new blogger templates already have installed this script or some thing like this. But if you are customizing a basic blogger template, you will need this script to do that. 

This is very simple. First open your blog and Go to Template and Click on Edit html button as shown in this image. Click on proceed on next window. 
Now click on "Expand widget templates" check box and search for </Head> Read How to search Specific code in Blogger template. Now paste the following code Before / Above </Head> tag


<script type='text/javascript'>
var thumbnail_mode = "no-float" ; 

summary_noimg = 575;

summary_img =475;

img_thumb_height = 200;

img_thumb_width = 200;

</script>
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://bloggerblogwidgets.googlecode.com/files/auto_readmore_blogger.js' > </script>



You can change those blue color values as you like. First one is the length of the text summery if you don't have an image on your post. second number is the text length if you have an image on your post to use as a thumbnail on the home page with your summery. Third and fourth numbers are the width and height if the thumbnail you are going to show in your home page with your text summery. IF you have larger or smaller images than this size you given the code those images will be changed to this size when creating thumbnails. 



Now find <data:post.body/> on your code and replace it using the following code


<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<data:post.body/>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;static_page&quot;'>
<data:post.body/>
<b:else/>
<div expr:id='&quot;summary&quot; + data:post.id'>
<data:post.body/>
</div>
<script type='text/javascript'>
createSummaryAndThumb(&quot;summary<data:post.id/>&quot;);
</script>
<div style='clear: both;'/>
<span class='rmlink' style='font-weight:bold;padding:5px;float:right;text-align:right;'><a expr:href='data:post.url' >Read more ... </a></span>
</b:if> </b:if>

You can change the Blue color text as you wish. you can add "Continue reading" or "More details" it will be shown as your Jump break text.  Now save your template and go to home page to see how your script working. change summery length and image size as you want. 

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Share this Buttons Installation to Blogger Tutorial | Share this Social button Widget

Share this social sharing button set is a very famous widget among bloggers. because it is customization supported, Easy to install, Few different styles and support for the all popular Social media services. Unlike other social sharing button widgets you don't have to copy and paste long code sets and customize your template. share this button web site has scripts to install their widget to Blogger wordpress jumla and lots of other web development interfaces. As you can see in this image there are different types of gadgets and they have a floating share buttons set also. you just have to do few clicks and your blog will have a professional looking social sharing button set in a minute. now lets start creating this button set.

First go to the Offial site of Share this Buttons Widget. http://www.sharethis.com/

Now click on Get the Button link. you will be redirected to the next page. Now you have to select the platform you are going to add this button set. select blogger and click on NEXT: Step 2. Pick a Style link at the bottom of the page. 

Now you can select the design for your widget. There are three types of styles. select widget style and click Next step button. Now you can select which buttons do you want to use in your sharing button widget. Basically you can use Facebook like or share button. Google 1+ Button. Digg, Stumbleupon and Twitter.  Choice is yours select buttons and change their order.

You can change your button order and wanted buttons on Selected services box. if you want to remove a button then move your mouse pointer over it and click on the remove button. you can drag and drop other buttons from the boxes at right side. Now click on the next button. it will ask you to login or just get the code without registering. Registration is free and if you are a registered user you can read stats by loggin in to share this account likeGoogle Analytics. but this will only give you the stats for social button widget.  If you don't want button stats just click on the skip link at the top right corner of the pop up window. 


Now they will show you two types of the widget. read info and choose your favorite and click on the get code button. If you have a popup blocker installed, It will block the add gadget window. specially Google chrome. you will see a little icon showing that chrome has blocked a popup window at the end of the address bar. click it and allow it to appear. Now give a name to your widget and add it as a normal widget to your blog.


If you want to remove this widget. Just find that widget on your template and remove it. Easy as that. no more hard coding and template editing.

Backup your Blogger Theme | Blogger template Backup

Keeping backups of your templates is very important when you are going to customize your theme. Blogger has a simple template backup and restore feature. In this post we are going to learn how we can backup and restore blogger themes. 

Remember when you download your template you don't get your posts or images included in your blog. your backup only contains the HTML and CSS codes related to the theme of your blog. it might be few kilobytes. But it will keep your widgets and widget codings in the downloaded backup file. Now lets see how we can backup our blogger template.

If you are using the old blogger interface go to Dashboard and click on the design button under your blog. Then it will open the page elements tab. click on the Edit html tab next to page elements tab and click on "Download Full Template" link as shown in the picture. 

If you are using the new blogger interface, go to blogger dashboard and select  Template menu option from your blog.

Now you will see the Backup/Restore link at the top right corner. click it and select "Download Full Template" Button to download the template file.


Read this article to learn how to restore your Backups or upload a new blogger theme 

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How To Create Special Lists on Blogger and HTML codings

Lists are often used in many web sites. Creating lists is very easy. In this post we are going  to learn how to create a list in blogger and how to customize it with HTML codes. First lets see how we can create a list using blogger and how to customize it using the HTML mode and how to create a list only from using HTML. 

First put your cursor on the place you wanted to add the list and click Insert Bullet list button. It is the same button as Microsoft word. Now you will see the first item of the list has been created. If you want to read more about lists and how to create numbered lists read this post. We create Bullet lists in html using the <UL> tag and create menu items using the <LI> tag. Look at the following code and it's result below.

<ul>
<li>This is</li>
<li>A Bullet</li>
<li>List</li>
</ul>

• This is
• A Bullet
• List

Now lets see how we can customize these lists with html mode. You can use alphabet letters instead of dots in bullet lists. then we have to change the first line of the code like this. 

<ol type="A">   Starts a numbered list, using capital letters. you can use "simple a" as the type to create the list using the simple letters

<ol type="i">   Starts a numbered list, using  small roman numbers


<ol type="I">   Starts a numbered list, using  capital roman numbers

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How to Create Numbered lists Using Blogger And Html Codes

In this post we are going  to learn how to create a numbered list in blogger and how to customize it with HTMl codes. Creating a numbered list is very easy. If you are familiar with Microsoft word and other text editing softwares, it is the same way to create lists in blogger too. There are few options you can use if you are using HTML mode. in addition to these options you can specify at which number the list should start and the number format also.

Now on we are posting our tutorials on new blogger interface. If you are not familiar with it, then click here to read the main content on the new blogger interface. 


Open a new post and hit Numbered list on the tool bar.


Now you will see the first number as 1. Type the first value and press enter then blogger will automatically add the second number. enter the text and press enter again. keep doing it until you finish your list. When you finished creating your numbered list press Enter button twice to stop adding numbers and start typing normal paragraph again. 


Now lets see how we can customize our number list using the Edit Html section. You can see the html and compose mode buttons on the left side of the new post tool bar in new blogger view. In html we call numbered lists as Ordinary lists. we use <OL> tag to create a numbered list and <li> tag ( List Items ) to add the numbered list. look at the following code and the result of that code. you can create that list using only the html code.



<ol>
<li>This</li>
<li>Is a</li>
<li>Numbered list</li>
</ol>

1. This 
2. Is a 
3. Numbered list

Think if you want to break the numbered list on the 3rd item and add a little information under it and start the list after the paragraph with number 4. then you can use this code when starting the list again. 


<ol start="4">


Now your second numbered list will start from number four. Try numbered lists with changing options like colors fonts with html and compose mode

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Search Place of a Code in Html or a Place of a Specific Word in a Web page

This trick is very important to all internet users. This is useful to find a special word in a web page. you can find any word in your browser using this trick. When you editing your blogger template or blog post this search tool becomes very handy. 


This trick works with all internet browsers. All you have to do for activate this little search gadget is to press F key while holding control key  CTRL + F . now your browser will open a little search box from a side. type exact word or phase to search it on active web page or tab.


This is useful when you are editing links on a web page or Editing a blogger template.

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New Blogger Dashboard Window Look

Last time we talked about the new blogger interface.Now lets see how we can work with the new blogger dash board. First im going to introduce the main parts of the new blogger dashboard. look at this screenshot. you can see your blogger profile name on top left corner. at right side you can see the language change button and other options. If you want to zoom this picture just click on the image. Read description after the image to see that are those sections

1. This is the new blog button. If you don't have a blog yet, blogger will automatically load the new blog page. if you have already have a blog and want to create a new blog, then click on this button to open the new blog dialog box
2. This is the name of your blog. if you have multiple blogs you can see all names as a list. once you clicked on the blog name blogger will open the blog options window. you can see a summery of your blog on that window.
3. Blog options and tasks list. If you have worked with the old blogger dashboard, you know that all blogger options were placed below the blog name. but in the new interface they have added those options and a little drop down menu.
4. View Blog. This is the same button used in old blogger. once you have changed your blog settings and after you posted new articles to your blog, you can check them as a normal user see it on the browser by using this View blog button.

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Work with New Blogger Interface

Recently blogger has changed their interface a little bit. Now lets see how to work with those changes. Posting and Settings are very similar to the old interface but blogger Dashboard is different than the Old Blogger Dashboard. My personal opinion is Old Blogger Dashboard is very easy to work with. But it's very easy to get familiar with this new interface if you know how to use the old interface. Unlike the old look now blogger dashboard looks perfect to me. new orange color look gives a beautiful look to the dashboard. New post windowis more simple now. Its more like Microsoft word. Easy to use. Now lets see those changes

When you sign in to blogger you will be automatically redirected to blogger dashboard. Blogger now supports for lots of languages. you can select your language if you want using the drop down menu at the top tight corner. 

You can see all your blogs on this page. Also you can create new blogs on this window. You can see a little drop down menu on the right side of the blog name to access blogger options like Adding and editing posts, Add\Edit Gadgets and blog settings. if you are new to those options read my previous article about blogger dashboard. all options are same. just the view and places of the links are changed.

Our all tutorials will be posted using this new interface now on. If you are still using the old view, you can change your view to new interface or you can keep your old look. It doesn't matter. All procedures will be same. Still i didn't find a better reason to switch to the new interface if you familiar with the old interface. Comment section is open for your ideas.

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How to Create links on blogs and web sites | Link Images | Open Links in new tab and new window

Create links to other web sites and blog posts is also a very important thing in web site developing and blogging. Hyperlinks are useful to get higher Search engine rank. If you can create good related links inside your blog posts to another posts you can keep your readers reading more content on your blog or web site. In this post lets see how we can create hyper links in compose mode or using the Html code on Edit Html mode. After reading this psot you will learn how to create links, how to use an image as a link, How to open your link targets in new windows and new tabs on your browser.

Create Hyperlinks on compose mode.

Creating a hyper link is very easy on blogger compose mode. type your URL address on your post and click "Link" Button on blogger tool bar. It will automatically create the required code to make a link to that URL. If you want to use a text link like "Read more" "Click here" then highlight the text you want to act like a link and click on "Link" button on your new post tool bar. ( Read this article to learn more about link button and blogger tool bar )

It will open the create link dialog box. you can add the URL on that box to complete your link.

Create Hyperlinks on Edit Html mode.

Now lets see how we can create a Hyper link on Edit Html mode using Html codes. This is the basic code we use to create a hyper link

<A href="http://www.yoursite.com">your text</a>

If you want to load that link on a new tab you can add target="_blank" code after your URL. For a sample lets male a link to load google.com by clicking a "Go to google.com" button on a new tab

<A href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank">Go to google.com</a>

It will appear on your blog like this Go to google.com


If you want to add an image instead of text you can replace blue color your text with the image code. Read more about Adding images to blogger in Html mode and How to create hyperlinks with images.

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Customize Blogger Read more Button

Change Read more button, Change text, Add images or animations. How to customize Blogger read more button. There are the topics we are going to learn on this post. If you don't know about blogger Jump breaks, You can readHow to add Jump Breaks to Blogger posts article. Blogger will add " Read more >> " Text as default Jump Break text. we can easily change this text and its attributes like font, size align using basic Html and Css codes. We also can link an image file for it. Have you seen animating read more buttons? It's very easy to do. Just make animating button and save it as .Gif image. now you can link that image to your Jump break as we learn on this post.

First you have to check if your blogger template already supporting Jump Links or you must add Jump break support manually. If you are using a basic blogger template or your own template, you have to add Jump break support manually. Read How to add Jump break support widget to blogger template

Change Jump Break Text

First you have to open the Edit Html mode in design tab. Go to Blogger Dash board then open Edit Html on Design Tab like the following Screen shot

Now find this code on your Template code


<data:post.jumpText/> 


Now replace it using this code


<P> Your Text </P>

You can enter any character, Number or a symbol in blue color "Your text" part. 

Change alignment and other text properties of a Jump Break text 

You can align your Read more button using "left" , "right" or "center" properties of Paragraph tag. For a sample lets use "Continue reading..." as our jump text button in center of the article page.. then that code will be like this.

<b:if cond='data:post.hasJumpLink'>
<div class='jump-link'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url + &quot;#more&quot;'

    expr:title='data:post.title'>

<p align='center' >Continue reading...</p></a>
</div>
</b:if>

Add an image for the Jump Break

Adding an image to the read more button is very easy. Just upload your read more button and get the direct image link. you can upload it to blogger or your picasa web album. easy way to get the direct link to a new image is create a new post and upload your image. then publish it and go to the published page, right click the image , click copy image location, now you can delete that post. once you have the direct link to the uploaded image you can use <img> tag to link the image to Read more button.

Now find this code on your Template code


<data:post.jumpText/> 


Now replace it using this code


<P> <img src="image direct link"/></P>


You can use your image url in the blue color text.  you can directly resize your image using width and height properties like this  


<P> <img src="image direct link" Width="change" height="change" /></P>


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How to Add Read more button to Blogger Template

This post is for the people who use their own custom templates and who doesn't have blogger jump break support in their blog template. If your blog template doesn't show Read more button after you added Jump break manually you have to add the Blogger Jump break support widget to your blogger template code. If you want to learn about blogger Jump breaks and how to add them manually Read this post about Blogger Jump breaks. To add jump break support you have to edit your template and add little code. Now lets see how we can add Jump Break support to our blog.

First you have to open the Edit Html mode in design tab. Go to Blogger Dash board then open Edit Html on Design Tab like the following Screen shot

Now find this code on your Template code

<data:post.body/>

You can easily search it by pressing Ctrl + F  it will open the search box on your browser. type the code in the search box and it will show you the place.


Now Add following code below it

    <b:if cond='data:post.hasJumpLink'>
    <div class='jump-link'>
    <a expr:href='data:post.url + &quot;#more&quot;' 
    expr:title='data:post.title'>
    <data:post.jumpText/></a>
    </div>
    </b:if>

Now save your template and manually add Jump break to your posts. Read how to Add Jump breaks manually

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