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Numbered Page Navigation For Blogger a Simple Step

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Page Navigation facilitates visitors to explore our blog and view page per page. Blogger did not facilitate page navigation. Page Navigation is a really awesome and long awaited feature. Muhammad Rias of Techie Blogger had already developed a page navigation system for blogger.It really was an awesome trick which was made at a time when nobody could even think of implementing it on blogger.It had some minor bugs and now Abu Farhan has perfected it and he has now given us the perfect page navigation solution. For WordPress users must already be familiar with page navigation. For Blogger users let's do this. Here are the steps: 1.Login to Blogger Dashboard and navigate to Layout > Edit Html 2. Checkbox which says ' Expand Widget Templates ' 3. Now find ]]></b:skin> and replace it with .showpageArea { padding:10px; } .showpageArea a { text-decoration:underline; } .showpageNum a { text-decoration:none; border: 1px solid #ccc; margin:0 5px; padd

How to find Blogger's blog ID number?

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Sign into Blogger. In the list of blogs, tick on the blog which ID number you want ( see screen shot below ): Look at the address bar with the blog URL at the top of the browser and you will see ID=1234567891011121314 as highlighted in blue in the screen shot below: Those numbers are your blog ID number

How to change maximum number of posts in Blogger label page

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Blogger has set a default maximum 20 blog posts in its label page (category page). This may or may not suit your preference or your purpose in setting up the label page. You may want to decrease it to increase download time. Alternatively, you may want to increase the maximum number of posts to show all posts with the same label (category). If you want to change this default maximum number of post, you will have to edit the template. First, backup your blog template ( Dashboard > Template > Backup (at the top right corner) > Download full template > All files) Now you got to open the template editor ( Dashboard > Template > Edit HTML ). Tick [ ] Expand Widget Templates Now use ctrl+F to help you find the following codes: expr:href='data:label.url' Replace the above with the following (I used the number 150 because I want all posts to be displayed in the label page. You may use other numbers in place of 150): expr:href='data:label.url +

Capture that idea - blogging is about ideas

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We know that great things start with a small idea and yet not all ideas that occur to us are able to see the light of day in terms of a considered piece of writing. But if you are into blogging then you will know that once a great idea is there a great blog post is just a little more time away. And we all would have experienced how difficult it can be to come up with an idea on demand. Even for some of the very creative ones amongst us. Though once we recognize that ideas are of great importance we can learn to respect them and treat them with care so that ideas that occur to us do not evaporate away as other events in our life pile up one on top of the other. So what can one do to increase our ability to care for our ideas? Well to start with one must recognize that a good idea does not come all fleshed out in great detail, it usually comes along as a seed of an idea that we then build it into a great idea. Once we have a great idea we care for it and perhaps may jot it down, but w