Customize Your Blogger Profile

It simply takes a few minutes to add together a profile photograph together with customize your world Blogger profile to permit your readers acquire a chip to a greater extent than almost yous together with to help folks similar interests notice you.

When yous practise a Blogger Profile the solely information yous are required to acquire into is your display name.

You lead maintain the selection of creating adding a profile photo, together with setting upwardly world profile that volition move linked from the posts yous author, your comments on Blogger blogs together with the Blogger Profile gadget on your blog's Layout.

Profile gadget.

Profile photo, name, link to profile on posted comment.

Your Blogger profile is linked to all the blogs inwards your Blogger account. If yous desire to weblog nether to a greater extent than than ane identity, yous tin practise a novel Blogger delineate concern human relationship on a dissimilar Google account.

If yous lead maintain already gear upwardly your Blogger profile, learn how to add together a Profile gadget to your blog's layout.

Note that if yous haven't switched from a Google+ Profile to a Blogger Profile yet, jump to the halt to acquire how to switch.

Watch the video for a quick tutorial:
 Or read on for detailed instructions.

Configure your Blogger Profile

Once yous lead maintain gear upwardly a Blogger Profile, yous tin add together a profile photograph together with personal details, together with lead whether your profile is visible to others. 

1. Open your Blogger Settings > User Settings and adjacent to your User Profile click Edit

That volition opened upwardly your Blogger profile settings inwards a novel tab.

Or yous tin acquire straight to www.blogger.com/edit-profile.g

2. Edit your Privacy Settings

• Share your profile enables your profile to move seen when someone clicks your advert equally writer of a weblog post or a comment on approximately other Blogger Blog
• Show my electronic mail address enables others to run into your electronic mail address on your profile.
• Show my blogs lets yous select which blogs volition display on your profile. Be certain to click Save Settings after selecting your blogs.
• Show sites I follow  lets yous enable others to run into which other Blogger blogs yous follow (learn almost next blogs) 

3. Edit your Identity 

• Username  is your Google Account electronic mail username. You cannot alter that from these settings.
• Email Address  if yous display a contact electronic mail address, acquire into it here. I tin move whatever email.
• Display advert lets yous alter your Blogger display advert for posts yous writer together with comments

4. Add or alter your Profile Photo

You tin upload an paradigm from your computer, or yous tin link to an paradigm online. 

Note that if yous link to an image, it has to move a link to the paradigm itself, non the page the paradigm is on. 

Google Photos does non offering whatever slow agency to link to a specific image, therefore it's easiest to download the paradigm to your computer, therefore re-upload it.

If yous desire to change your profile photo click Remove Photo

5. Add to a greater extent than personal details together with General  information

• Audio Clip lets yous link to an well file online
• Gender lets yous laid Female, Male or Not Specified
• Homepage URL  lets yous part a link to your original website or social media profile
• Wishlist URL lets yous link to a wishlist on Amazon.com or other service. Note that "Create a wishlist" links to froogle.google.com which directly Google Shopping, together with no longer has a wishlist option.
• IM Username lets yous part your instant messaging username. The listing of services yous tin select from (Yahoo, AOL, MSN, Google Talk) demonstrate long it's been since these options were updated. 

6. Add your Location, Work, Interests and other information.

Location, Work, together with your interests volition move clickable on your profile together with demonstrate a listing of other Blogger users amongst the same information.

Be certain to click Save Profile when yous are done!

You volition run into a link to View your Profile.  Check it out together with run into what other Blogger users out in that place lead maintain similar backgrounds together with interests.

Here is my Blogger profile that I configured inwards the examples above: https://www.blogger.com/profile/14654823503813717900

Add a Blogger Profile gadget to your Blog Layout

Once yous lead maintain gear upwardly your Blogger Profile, add together a Profile gadget to your blog's layout or display your profile below your weblog posts. Note that if yous desire to practise a genuinely custom Profile on your blog, yous tin move a HTML/Javascript gadget to add together all the information yous desire to part (which is what I've done on my correct card here).

1. Sign inwards to Blogger together with click Layout on the left menu.

2. On the Layout page, click + Add a Gadget

3. Select Profile from the Gadget list

4. Configure the Profile Gadget to add together a championship together with lead whether it links to your profile or displays your location.

5. Save the gadget together with drag it to the seat yous desire it to look on your blog's layout.

6. Save changes to your layout.

The exact pattern of the gadget depends on your blog's theme.  You tin modify the topic past times clicking Theme  on the left card together with therefore clicking the Customize button. The event is a weblog using the Emporio theme.

Some weblog themes too permit yous display your Blogger Profile below your posts. 

1. Sign inwards to Blogger together with click Layout on the left menu

2. On the Blog Posts gadget click the Pencil or Edit icon. 

3. In the Blog Posts gadget, tick the box adjacent to Show Author Profile Below Post

4. Save  the changes.

Switch from a Google+ Profile to a Blogger Profile

If yous lead maintain been using a Google+ Profile for your Blogger account, when yous sign inwards to Blogger yous should run into a notice suggesting yous switch to a Blogger profile "at your earliest convenience".  With the shutdown of Google+ simply a few days away, directly is the time!

It simply takes a few minutes to gear upwardly together with configure your Blogger Profile. 

If yous are already using a Blogger Profile, scroll upwardly to the instructions for configuring your Blogger Profile above.

1. To starting fourth dimension the procedure click the "here" link on the notice or acquire to www.blogger.com/go/gplusdeprecation-revert-to-blogger-profile. 

You tin too starting fourth dimension past times opening your Blogger Settings > User Settings, clicking the Blogger profile option, therefore clicking the Save Settings button.

2. When the confirmation shroud options, click Switch to a Blogger Profile

Note that ane time consumer Google+ shuts down, Blogger volition probable skip this confirmation step.

3. The Confirm your Profile page volition open. Enter the name you desire to move equally the writer of your Blogger blogs.

This does non ask to move the same equally your Google delineate concern human relationship name.

Then click Continue to Blogger

That volition gear upwardly your Blogger profile. But it volition lead maintain no profile photograph or personal details.

Now yous tin customize your Blogger profile.