RS Designs

This feature from Blogger can go unnoticed unless you start nosing around in your settings a little.

We often get questions about how to customize your post footer links (the links under your posts) and and dates. The most common questions are: How do I delete the time stamp? How can I change “comments” to something else? How do I change time stamp and date? Usually the answer is; go to Settings and find it there.

There is a much easier way to answer all those questions now: Go to your Layout page - Page Elements- Click Edit on Blog Posts.

Let me show you what it looks like:

This is the first thing you will see. *Image size fixed*

* Go to your dashboard- Layout- Page Elements- Click the Edit button on your post widget.

It should look like the image to the left.

Once you have clicked edit a new window will pop up and show you the following screen;

As you can see I have numbered the options that comes up in the new window.

1: This is the number of posts that show up on your first page. Remember that the more post you have on the front page the longer your blog will take to load, especially if you add images to your posts. A good number of posts on the front page is usually 6-10.

2: This is where you change the way you want your date to be displayed, if at all.

3: Don’t like how it says “posted by” after each post? Change it to something else!

4: Time stamp- keep it or delete it.

5: Comments- Change the wording comments to something more fun!

6: Want people to see who link to that special post? Tick the box. If not, do not tick.

7: Labels; you can change the wording to soemthing else if you like and choose if you want to chow labels after each post.

8: Want to be able to quickly edit your own posts? Tick the box! You will see a pen after each post.

9: Want others to be able to email your post to themselves? Tick the email icon.

10: Show ads in between posts. This is a really nice feature that comes with new Blogger. You can insert your Adsense in between posts. Tick the box and it will expand into this;

Here you can decide how often you want to insert Adsense between posts, what colors you want it to be and format.

You can see a preview of what it would look like.

You also have the option of switching Adsense account if you want to. Otherwise it will show you how to add one if you do not already have one.

So what does it look like now when we have made some changes?

Lets take a look at what it looked like from the beginning:

After we changed it a little it now looks like this:

As you can see it is quite easy to change and customize your Blogger posts.

Want to learn more on how to customize your Blogger template? Revka has written guides on How to Change Your Borders, Leaving comments using Open ID and How To change Background Colors. And we have more coming up!

Like this post? Leave a comment and feel free to link to this post and help other Blogger bloggers customize their blogs.