Blogger Magic - A Static Domicile Page

Every week, someone asks for such a uncomplicated spider web log feature.

How create I bring a unmarried spider web log postal service e'er displayed, for the dwelling page?

There are many things that Blogger has notwithstanding to provide, too this is one. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 blog, past times definition, contains a dynamic dwelling page, alongside the most electrical flow posts displayed.

Today (sorry, also late!), if y'all thought this blog, this postal service volition hold upward displayed, at the real tiptop of the dwelling page. Tomorrow, this postal service volition hold upward displayed, exactly non at the tiptop of the dwelling page. In a pair weeks, this postal service volition non hold upward displayed on the dwelling page, at all. That is how blogs work. If y'all desire to display anything else, y'all don't bring a blog.

That's the purist position, anyway. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 spider web log is exactly a spider web site alongside the latest posts displayed on dwelling page (the master copy page), too hidden older posts (the archives).

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(Update 2012/06/06): The recent "Search preferences" characteristic allows us to setup a truthful static dwelling page, alongside none of the complications below.

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The non bad affair nigh this magic line a fast 1 on is that it's non hard to instruct into work. I categorise this line a fast 1 on every bit a snake, later on the former taunt from my mother

If it had been a snake, it would bring bitten you.

It's too then simple, really.

1. Make the spider web log not display whatsoever posts, for dwelling page.
2. Add a text gadget.
3. Tweak the text gadget to solely display, when dwelling page URL is displayed.
4. Use the Pages gadget, too index the residual of the blog. Add links using diverse label searches, pages, too posts, every bit y'all like.

Make The Home Page Not Display Any Posts
If y'all brand the master copy page non display whatsoever posts, y'all instruct an empty dwelling page. Settings - "Posts too comments" contains the "Show" setting. Set "Show" to "0 posts", too the spider web log has an empty dwelling page.

Add Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Text Gadget
Add an HTML / Text gadget, positioned exactly inwards a higher house or below the "Blog Posts" gadget. Setup the novel gadget exactly similar the spider web log post, that y'all would desire permanently displayed. If y'all desire to purpose the postal service editor to compose the gadget, create that.

Tweak The Template
This is the 1 business office of this project, that requires whatsoever technique. Use the Template Editor, too edit the gadget template, for the gadget that y'all exactly added, too then the gadget solely displays when the dwelling page URL is beingness displayed.

Use The Pages Gadget, To Index The Rest Of The Blog
Once y'all bring a static dwelling page gadget, exactly add together links to the residual of the blog. You tin sack bring links inwards the novel gadget - too y'all tin sack bring an index inwards the spider web log header, or inwards the sidebar. Use your imagination here, it's your blog.

That's it. Really.

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The Stats All Fourth Dimension Display, Together With The 2010 Numbers

Occasionally inwards Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, nosotros run across a curious question.

My weblog Stats display is missing a consummate year.

The employment is truly correct there, inwards front end of all of us - if nosotros look.

Look at the Stats Overview tab, in addition to the graph at the travel past times of the display.

What happened to "2010"?


My suspicion is that it's a deliberate omission, to teach the graph to agree inwards the express horizontal space. How volition they teach "All Time" to agree inwards that space, every bit the Stats display gets older, in addition to "All Time" covers to a greater extent than years?

That beingness the case, it should non live on that much operate to add together a trivial "broken line" symbol inwards the border, betwixt "2009 October" in addition to "2011 March". Look how smoothly the describe of piece of work flows, inwards my graph, correct through 2010. What does your weblog show?

Fast forrad to 2015, in addition to we'll know the answer.

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And inwards 2012, nosotros at ane time run across the same display oddity amongst the numbers from 2011.

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Confusion Close The Novel Gui, As Well As Reading Listing Management

As the New Blogger GUI becomes to a greater extent than of a standard, inward the Blogger spider web log world, we're seeing testify of confusion nigh the differences inward the icons together with the menus.

How produce I UnFollow a blog?

is i query that we're seeing, from a few confused spider web log Followers, this week.

The answer is correct there, inward forepart of you, when you're looking at the Blog List / Reading list. The Gear icon, to the correct of "Reading list"(in the New GUI), replaces the bluish "Manage" push at the bottom of the page (in the Classic GUI).

Just click on the Gear icon, together with you're there, possess to Manage your spider web log community. But don't confuse the Gear picture to the correct of "Reading list", amongst the Gear picture at the altitude of each dashboard page.

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Blogger Magic - Issue Posts To Pages

Ever since Blogger gave us the choice to add pages to our blogs - too provided the complementary Pages index gadget - weblog owners accept asked, periodically

How create I let out my posts to pages?

This is a pretty unproblematic procedure, also - i time nosotros empathise the complementary nature of dynamic too static pages.

Once you lot empathise the differences betwixt dynamic too static pages, too run into that the Pages gadget volition index both types of pages, the physical care for of publishing posts to pages becomes reasonably simple.

• Publish posts, too assign labels to the posts.
• Add label search URLs, equally "link pages", using "Configure Page List".

Now, if you lot desire your posts to solely look on the pages - non inwards brain page view, you lot add together a tertiary step, which has a issue of choices.

• Make a static dwelling identify page.
• Use a redirected Home page, to brand the Home page dynamic or static, at your preference.

The latter pace is exactly a chip to a greater extent than complex, too exactly requires that you lot create upward one's take away heed what you lot wishing your readers to run into - instead of the brain page of posts, when reading your weblog for the get-go time. There are a diversity of choices available.

Finally, to brand the display await a chip cleaner, you lot may non desire to run into the "Showing posts amongst label ..." box.

• Remove the "Showing posts amongst label" box.

One of the commutation steps inwards this physical care for is getting the label search URL, for the Page beingness added. Look to the halt of this post, exactly inwards a higher identify the comments.

Topics: extract the search URL, from the link.

Blogger Magic

giving me

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/search/label/Blogger%20Magic

Now, I'll plug that URL into the Pages gadget, equally a "link address", amongst "Page title" of "Blogger Magic".

See "Magic", inwards the card bar at the top?

Now, create this for whatever postal service inwards your blog, that you lot desire to look inwards a non "Home" Pages tab.

• Pick a post, inwards your blog.
• Extract the label search URL, from a label for that post.
• Use that label search URL, equally a "link address", inwards Layout - "Pages".
• Publish to a greater extent than posts, using that same label.

Do this carefully, too you lot tin fifty-fifty accept the Pages entries appearing on the card bar, amongst the weblog viewable using a dynamic template. You tin fifty-fifty accept this, if you lot usually display the weblog using a non dynamic template.

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(Update 2012/06/30): See The Video, for a alive demonstration.

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Where's The Dashboard?

We run across this confusion, a brace times a week, inwards Blogger Help Forum: How Do I?.

Where is the dashboard?

In the Classic Blogger GUI, the display which contained the "Blog List" (at the top), in addition to the "Reading List" (at the bottom) was labeled "Dashboard". Many people every bit good called the "Settings" / "Template" screens for the diverse blogs, linked from the Blog List, the dashboard.

The New Blogger GUI has no page alongside the label - in addition to no links "To The Dashboard". The Navbar (another unlabeled feature) has ii links - "Design" in addition to "New Post" - which atomic number 82 to dissimilar dashboard sections, when yous are appropriately logged inwards to Blogger. And, the "B" logo at the far left of the navbar will, similarly, accept yous to the Blog List / Reading List.

The Blogger Dashboard is exactly the "Blog List" / "Reading List", in addition to all attached utilities which you, the owner, administrator, or author, access, every bit yous manage the blog.

• Change diverse spider web log settings.
• Control the post service template.
• Publish in addition to edit posts.
• Edit the spider web log template.
• Add, delete, in addition to reposition accessory gadgets.

The Dashboard - in addition to "My blogs" / "Reading List".

The Dashboard - in addition to Overview.

The Dashboard - in addition to the Posts index.

The Dashboard - in addition to Settings.



There are in addition to hence many Dashboard pages - in addition to the top dog pages lead keep sub pages. And every dissimilar page in addition to sub page is mentioned, inwards this blog.

The Stats All Fourth Dimension Display, As Well As The 2011 Numbers

Occasionally inwards last twelvemonth - for 2010.

Look at the Stats Overview tab, in addition to the graph at the transcend of the display.

There's Dec 2010!
There's Jan 2012!!
What happened to "2011"?


My suspicion is that it's a deliberate omission, to become the graph to tally inwards the express horizontal space. How volition they become "All Time" to tally inwards that space, every bit the Stats display gets older, in addition to "All Time" covers to a greater extent than years?

That beingness the case, it should non live that much function to add together a piffling "broken line" symbol inwards the border, somewhere betwixt "Septermber 2010" in addition to "May 2012". Look how smoothly the business flows, inwards my graph, correct through 2011. What does the graph for your spider web log show?

Fast frontwards to 2015, in addition to we'll know the answer.

Life is amount of mystery. Why non but bargain amongst this one, in addition to deed on?

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Choose Your Registrar, When Buying A Domain

When yous buy a domain - either equally purpose of the "Buy a domain" wizard, or when yous buy straight from a registrar - yous are gratis to utilisation whatever registrar that yous wish, for the purchase. The "Buy a domain" sorcerer (which should live on your preferred method of purchase) lets yous utilisation either eNom or GoDaddy - together with which registrar yous utilisation is your pick - though the pick is non made obvious, yesteryear the sorcerer layout.

The selection of which registrar to use, inwards "Buy a domain", is e'er your conclusion - though the selection procedure is somewhat obscure. Just larn slowly, together with await carefully for the correct link.

Start from the Good News display. Find the tiny link at the bottom - "Learn more", adjacent to the advert of the chosen registrar.


And, in that place it is. If yous don't similar the pick made for you, pick the other.



The pick is correct in that place - yous only accept to know where to look.

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When You Lot Search For Of Import Email, Search Carefully

Many Blogger / Google procedures involve e-mail communications, amongst you lot needing to read - as well as response to - e-mail from Blogger / Google.

Some e-mail systems automatically carve upwardly incoming email, as well as position of import (and non as well as thus important) e-mail into unlike folders. Many times, e-mail from Blogger / Google may hold out sorted into a folder where you lot would non ever unremarkably hold off - or may hold out sent to an e-mail address that you lot mightiness non mean value of, immediately.

It's to your personal advantage, to discovery whatsoever e-mail that is beingness sent to you lot - fifty-fifty materials inwards Bulk / Spam.

One of the best known folders, also Inbox, where e-mail may hold out flora would hold out "Bulk" / "Spam".

"False Positive" filter effects are unavoidable.

All e-mail systems may occasionally position of import e-mail into either "Bulk" or "Spam". Any fourth dimension when you lot are awaiting of import e-mail from Blogger / Google, such every bit when you lot are trying to recover access to your blog, or when you lot brand (or maybe, postulate to make) an of import purchase, ever hold off inwards both the "Inbox" as well as "Bulk" / "Spam" folders.

If your e-mail organisation provides an "Incoming" post log, it's never a bad persuasion to scan the log, periodically.

Consider all possible e-mail accounts that you lot mightiness own.

Besides checking the multiple sections of whatsoever 1 e-mail account, you lot should also take in the complex interactions betwixt Blogger accounts, e-mail clients, as well as Google accounts, as well as examine GMail as well as non GMail addresses - electrical flow as well as past, amongst like persistence.

Consider all private e-mail accounts, that may hold out combined automatically.

If you lot role GMail, or whatsoever e-mail delivery service which provides powerfulness to manage as well as role multiple e-mail accounts from a unmarried e-mail desktop, you lot should cheque settings inwards every such e-mail system, for multiple draw of piece of work organisation human relationship setup.

Your Blogger draw of piece of work organisation human relationship needs to hold out based on an active e-mail draw of piece of work organisation human relationship (GMail, or non GMail). If you lot are intentionally obscuring your Blogger account, you're going to convey a work here. There are diverse reasons why you lot may non meet every fundamental e-mail message, inwards your Inbox, at laid out glance.

Diligent searching may trim down fourth dimension spent inwards online forums.

Searching for incoming email, carefully, may trim down the sum of fourth dimension you lot pass inwards redirects your readers to a page total of advertisements.

Prevent disappointment as well as time to come regret - cheque your "Bulk" / "Spam" folders, for all possible e-mail accounts as well as clients which you lot use, periodically. And take in possible spoof filtering effects.

Custom Domain Publishing - Moving Dorsum To Blogspot, Using The Novel Gui, Isn't Obvious

The New Blogger GUI (2011) has been available for just over six months - as well as nosotros meet novel confusion virtually using it, daily, inwards Blogger Help Forum: How Do I?.

How create I cancel my custom domain redirect, inwards the New GUI?

This is 1 specific question, that's been asked, recently.

The response to that specific inquiry is genuinely correct there, inwards front end of us - nosotros exactly don't meet it.

Blogger, similar Google, likes to role overlay panels for roughly displays, such equally how you lot meet the movie below - when you lot click on it.

In the novel GUI, if I hold back at the Blog Address settings for this blog, inwards Settings - Basic - Publishing, I see

See the "X"?
(Click on the picture, to amend meet the details.)



"Edit" is a link, that lets me "Edit" my custom domain settings. The "Edit" magician (which exactly pops upward inwards the same display, when I click on "Edit") does non allow me alter the URL of the weblog dorsum to BlogSpot - as well as this is the commencement of roughly confusion.

To take the custom domain redirect, as well as re set out the weblog to the domain - or set out dorsum to BlogSpot - 1 must click on the "X" inwards the exceed right. With the publishing shown as

blogging.nitecruzr.net                Edit               X bloggerstatusforreal.blogspot.com     redirects 

clicking on the "X" lets me take the custom domain redirect. Clicking on "Edit" alone lets me alter specific custom domain settings, such equally selecting the "naked domain" redirect option.

When you lot click on the "X", you lot volition larn a verification popup.

Are you lot sure? This volition take the electrical flow custom domain.

And you'll desire to hitting "Yes".

So, click on the "X" (it's genuinely inwards dark - I demonstrate it inwards red, above, to enter to a greater extent than obvious), to clear the custom domain redirect as well as set out dorsum to the master copy BlogSpot URL. If you lot don't meet the "X", click inwards the upper correct corner of that window - to the correct of "Edit" as well as exactly left of the window border. Apparently, non all browsers display the "X" properly.

Removing Blogs From Your Reading List

One of the strangest cases of confusion, exhibited inwards Blogger Help Forum: How Do I?, comes from people who solely desire to take a weblog from their Reading List, using the "Manage Blogs I'm Following" wizard.

I can't take a weblog from the Reading List - at that spot is no trash tin mail away inwards the Manage wizard!

Here, I'll suggest yous to non await for a trash tin mail away icon, for unopen to blogs.

To take blogs from your Reading List, click on the gear icon to the far right of "Reading list", on your dashboard.

Start amongst the "gear" icon, to the far right of "Reading List".

This gives yous Blogger: the onetime does non perform.

In many cases, you'll run across the unwanted blog, listed inwards "Manage Blogs I'm Following".



If yous don't forthwith run across the championship of the weblog that yous are trying to remove, inwards the "These are the blogs together with sites" list, don't worry. Go to the Reading List together with await at each private weblog inwards the list, 1 yesteryear one, until yous notice the work content - thus await at the championship used yesteryear the work blog. Always start amongst the right title.

Having the championship of the work blog, become to the listing of blogs yesteryear title, together with "Settings".

Once yous know the right title, become dorsum to the Blogger / Friend Connect inventory, together with notice that championship inwards the list. Click on "Settings", adjacent to the title.

When yous click on "Settings", yous may bring to login to Following / "Friend Connect". If yous bring to login, choose "Google" - thus use the right Blogger occupation organisation human relationship get upward together with password.

The "Stop following" link is inwards the popup window, for the blog.

In the popup window for the right title, you'll notice the Basics tab selected, amongst your profile displayed. Beneath the display of your profile, you'll notice the championship of the weblog in 1 lawsuit to a greater extent than - together with to the right of that (possibly requiring that yous stretch the width of the popup window), you'll notice the link "Stop next this site". Click on the link, striking "Stop Following" to confirm, together with you're done.

Just don't waste product fourth dimension looking for a trash tin mail away icon - if yous don't run across the unwanted blog, immediately.