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Tutorial # 46 - Add an Instagram Widget in Blogger

Nowadays Instagram is quite popular and has become one of the most prominent photo sharing apps on the market. It is a photo-sharing network that can be downloaded to your smart phone as an app. Think of it as Facebook with only photo sharing.

By adding the Instagram on Blogger as a widget, you may fulfill the statement, "A picture paints a thousand words" as you can have a new visual aspect of that site and allow visitors to go beyond just words on a page. With the convenience to carry the application around on your smartphone wherever you go, you can snap pictures, apply filters, and upload that content to your profile. From the profile, a widget specially designed for Instagram on Blogger would translate that data and display the image on your site. Even those visitors that aren't members of Instagram could benefit from such a service.

This guide will explain how to add an Instagram widget to your site with step-by-step instructions. This Instagram widget is entirely customizable and will allow you to modify the background color, font, and how the widget is actually displayed on the site.

Step 1: To get the Instagram widget, Log onto http://www.intagme.com/

Step 2: Type in your Username > select Grid or Slideshow:


Step 3: Select the Thumbnail size of your images (100px is the default) and choose if you want a border around your Photos or not


Step 4: To change the Background Color of the widget, simply click on the empty box and pick your favorite color


Step 5: If you want to show the Sharing buttons on your widget, select 'Yes', otherwise, click 'No'.


Step 6: Once you're satisfied with the widget, press the "Get Code" button and copy your code.



Step 7: Go to Layout and click on the "Add a Gadget" link on the right side.

Step 8: In the pop-up window, scroll down and click on the "HTML/JavaScript" gadget:


Step 9: Paste the code that you got from the Intagme website into the content section and press the 'Save' button to save the widget.


Step 10: Click and drag your widget if you want to change its position and press the "Save Arrangement" button on the upper right side. And you're done!

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Tutorial # 45 - How to Create a Sitemap or Table of Contents in Blogger

Sitemap makes the readers easy to find content that they are searching for. While the blog archive and labels have all the information about the published post, these do not appear on a single page completely, so searching for more posts is not always an easy job.

Quite fortunately, this tutorial will help you to add a table of contents or sitemap on Blogger showing the index of all posts separated by categories that have been published. It will also show the latest posts with a text saying "New!".

Step 1: Go to Pages > click the New Page button

Step 2: Click on the HTML tab and paste the following code inside it:

Step 3: Customization
- Replace http://earningviablog.blogspot.com in line # 11 with the address of your blog.
- To change the color and font size of categories title, replace the values in line # 2.
- To change the color of the links, replace the value in line # 3.

Step 4: Click Options on the right sidebar and select Don't allow (hide existing) for the reader's comments

Step 5: Finally, click the Publish button and View the page


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Tutorial # 44 - Recent Posts Widget with Thumbnails for Blogger/Blogspot

In the previous tutorial, Tutorial # 43 - Simple Recent Posts Widget for Blogger/Blogspot, we have learnt to create a Recent Posts Widget. In this post, you will see a different way of displaying the Recent Posts on Blogger - this is specially for those who want to show the post thumbnails as well.

Step 1: Go to your Blogger Dashboard > Layout, and click on "Add A Gadget" link. From the pop-up window, scroll down and choose HTML/JavaScript

Step 2: Paste the code from one of the options below in the empty box of HTML/JavaScript:


Step 3: Customization
- Replace YOUR-BLOG in line # 3 with the URL of your site/blog (ex: http://earningviablog.blogspot.com) and pay attention to have no forward slash symbol "/" at the end of the URL.
- To disable the scroll bar, remove the number 500 in line # 4.
- By default, this widget is set to display a maximum of 8 recent posts. To change this number, replace the number 8 in line # 4 with the number of posts that you want to appear
- If you want only the posts titles, change true to none and "0" from padding-top:0px with 10 in lines # 10 and 9 respectively.

Step 4: Save your widget. And you're done!


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Tutorial # 43 - Simple Recent Posts Widget for Blogger/Blogspot

Blogger itself contain many widgets related to "posts" like "Popular Posts" but unfortunately there is absence of a Recent Posts widget. If still you want such a widget, this tutorial will guide you to create your own.

This Recent Post widget has two variations, you can have it with both the title and snippets of post, or with post titles only. To make it fit your own design, you will need to modify the CSS style in order to make the following changes:-
- Display post titles only
- Change the number of posts
- Change the number of characters of the post snippet/excerpt
- Change the link or background color, the size and color of text/links.
- Show/hide the post dates

However there is the absence of thumbnails of the posts. If you want such thumbnails as well, see our next tutorial, Tutorial # 44 - Recent Posts Widget with Thumbnails for Blogger/Blogspot

Step 1: Go to your Blogger Dashboard > Layout, and click on "Add A Gadget" link. From the pop-up window, scroll down and choose HTML/JavaScript

Step 2: Paste the code from one of the options below in the empty box of HTML/JavaScript:

Option 1: Recent Posts Widget with Snippets:


Option 2: Recent Posts Widget Showing Post Titles Only:


Step 3: Customization:
- Change 5 (option 1 in line # 5) and 10 (option 2 in line # 3) with the number of posts that you want to display.
- Change false to true in line # 3 if you want the posts dates to appear
- Change 100 (option 1 in line # 5) if you want more characters to be displayed.
- To change the color and font size of the links, modify the values in line # 11 in option 1 and in line # 7 in option 2 (links) and line # 11 and in line # 7 in option 2 (font-size) respectively
- To change the style of posts summary, modify the values in green (color) and orange (font size)
- Replace the http://blog-address.com text with your URL

Step 4. Save your widget. And that's it! Enjoy!

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Tutorial # 42 - Google Translate Widget with Flags For Blogger

The Google Translate Widget for Blogger allows the visitors to translate your site or blog in their own language. This widget also auto-detect your blog language and then translate it to the readers chosen language.

It supports 12 different languages:
English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Arabic And Chinese.

Step 1: Go to your Blogger Dashboard > Layout, and click on "Add A Gadget" link. From the pop-up window, scroll down and choose HTML/JavaScript

Step 3: Paste the code below in the empty box:

Step 4: Now click on Save

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Tutorial # 41 - How to Remove "Showing Posts With Label" in Blogger

As a default, whenever we click on a label link the "Showing posts with label" message appears above the posts as shown below.
For many of us, it is quite annoying and useless. If this is the case with you, you may remove it just by following the steps below.

Step 1: Go to Dashboard > Template, Click on "Edit HTML"


Click anywhere inside the code area and press CTRL + F to open the blogger' search box

Step 2: Type or paste <b:includable id='status-message'> inside the search box and hit Enter to find it


Step 3: After you found it, click on the sideways arrow next to it, to expand the rest of the code.

Step 4: Replace the code with the one given below


<b:includable id='status-message'>
<b:if cond='data:navMessage'>
<div>
</div>
<div style='clear: both;'/>
</b:if>
</b:includable>

Step 5: Save the template. Now view your blog and click on some label....there should be no box anymore.
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Tutorial # 40 - How to Change Default Anonymous Avatar in Blogger Comments

In the previous tutorial (Tutorial # 39), we have learnt how to amend the size of the avatars in the blogger comments. Now we are going to learn how to change or customize the default avatar of anonymous commenters or Blogger users with no picture on their profiles.
Step 1: Go to Dashboard > Template, Click on "Edit HTML"


Click anywhere inside the code area and press CTRL + F to open the blogger' search box

Step 2: Type or paste </body> inside the search box and hit Enter to find it

Step 3. Just above the </body> tag, add the following code:


For Anonymous users: Replace the URL in line # 4 with your image address

For Blogger users: Replace the URL in line # 10 with your own.

Step 4. Save the changes by clicking on the Save Template button

You can choose an avatar from here and then copy the URL of it:

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https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpNFYSoDBwGVdFIh3QosrKarL0XeCaccoTKcVV8G4883jZEUuOG6Qh6XLsgkBOskffBQAZ-vNxlqSw64t5fNtXLzqwJXNDFohm9BX7fSBsIq5VZN-nlzLQzbQNKBt9i_kbf6TWmVdgAms/s200/default_avatar.gif


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https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJsiGFDxYMLGKKmGkIpoNjd4RhkXlflmJ1cmPEefeNvTq-NNjWcBDbiJ6OBQAi-n3qipvgLI98F6BC87635Suc1UFX2fBeSRYpjasHb_HDUwi-hJRcFPRkDl5jCvJhWVqZnyEFpDyh2qQ/s1600/facebook.gif


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https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXVDcE7dx-fDQf_C6Z10KoZ37dCnveTORNhJ5BPR60EvM3YoJQc3m2J2nEZJ7TeJ6gAzyLQreK4T597DYwXAPNl54Qp1V9k5O0NYZ3qYCYLzCwwsbpWNEsB5Q11YFI1fw8ii2OS88bd3U/s1600/anonymous3.png


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Tutorial # 39 - How To Change Avatar Size In Blogger Comments

This tutorial will help you modify the avatars size in Blogger comments whose default size is of 36px. To do so, you just need to add the CSS code in your Blogger template that will make size of avatars to have width and height of 64px.

 Step 1: Go to Dashboard > Template, Click on "Edit HTML"


Click anywhere inside the code area and press CTRL + F to open the blogger' search box

Step 2: Type or paste this tag inside the search box and hit Enter to find ]]></b:skin>
Note: you may need to click on the arrow next to it and then search this tag again.

Step 3. Depending on which comment system you use (with reply/no reply OR threaded/non-threaded), copy and paste one of the following codes just above the code ]]></b:skin>:

[Works in Blogger threaded comment system]
.comments .avatar-image-container{
background-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
border:1px solid #ccc;
margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
width: 64px;
max-height: 64px;
}
.comments .avatar-image-container img{
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
max-width: 64px;
height: 64px;
}


[for old blogger commenting system]
.avatar-image-container{
border:1px solid #d6d6d6;
margin-left: -30px;
-moz-border-radius: 4px;
background:#fff;
height:70px;
min-height: 70px;
width:70px;
min-width:70px;
}
.avatar-image-container img {
background: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSw9NmYTpHGetAlQe-WsYsOpjMk1mX74ZvHWMx0q18ORAabnxOQwkiujCnmDZlbTDzFHClDvOscwnLmsbvNxECVI6ODGDqHNM6o1yPM-wnXFqCee4agtWggjPFa0TMLXVJFbw1c8jXREM/s200/anonymous.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center;
background-size: 100%;
width:70px;
min-width:70px;
height:70px;
min-height:70px;
}

Note: For bigger/smaller avatars, change the values in width, max-height, max-width, height; and height, min-height, width, min-width, width, min-width, height, min-height.
To change the anonymous avatar, replace the URL with your own. (works only for the old commenting system i.e. that has no reply option)

Step 4: Click on the Save template button, and you're done. Now the avatars should look bigger.


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Tutorial # 38 - Add Facemoods Emoticons To Your Blogger Comments

An emoticon is a metacommunicative pictorial representation of a facial expression that, in the absence of body language and prosody, serves to draw a receiver's attention to the tenor or temper of a sender's nominal non-verbal communication, changing and improving its interpretation.  It expresses — usually by means of punctuation marks (though it can include numbers and letters) — a person's feelings or mood, though as emoticons have become more popular, some devices have provided stylized pictures that do not use punctuation.
Crazy!
As social media has become widespread, emoticons have played a significant role in communication through technology. They offer another range of "tone" and feeling through texting that portrays specific emotions through facial gestures while in the midst of text-based cyber communication.


Here are some amazing emoticons compatible with your Blogger comments - also with threaded commenting system (See Tutorial # 35)! If you want to know how to add them, just follow the steps given below.

Step 1: Blogger Dashboard > Template and click on "Edit HTML" button
Step 2: Click anywhere inside the code area and press CTRL + F to open the search box:

Step 3: Type or paste the below line inside the search box, then hit Enter in order to find it:

<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'>

And add the below code just after it:
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<div style=' width: 450px; text-align: left; border: 1px dashed #0084ce; background: transparent; padding: 10px; color:#000000; font-weight:bold; '>
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</div></b:if>


Step 4: Now search for this piece of code:
</body>

 Step 5: And add the following code immediately above it:



Step 6: Save the Template and hopefully, now you can enjoy commenting by adding these cool and crazy emoticons!
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Tutorial # 37 - Fancy E-mail Subscription Form of Blogger

If you want a simple E-mail Subscription Form, see the previous tutorial - Tutorial # 36 - How to add “Email Subscription Form” to Blogger/Blogspot. However if you want to make it a little bit fancy, this tutorial will help you in making so.

Step 1: Follow the Steps 1-6 of the previous tutorial - Tutorial # 36 - How to add “Email Subscription Form” to Blogger/Blogspot.

Step 2: Now copy and paste the following code into any webpage or HTML JavaScript widget (by going to Blogger Dashboard > Layout) and make the changes given below.

Customization
- Replace the URL address in line # 3 to change the email icon

- To change the width or the text area, increase/decrease the 190px value in line # 36

- Replace http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=EarningViaBlog with your Feedburner Email Feed link in line # 40. You can get it by visiting your feedburner account then navigate to "Publicize" and then to "Email Subscriptions".

- In line # 42, replace EarningViaBlog with your feed title. It appears at the end of your feed link. In my case it is http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=EarningViaBlog.


Step 3: Now Save your widget and you're done. Check and Enjoy!
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Tutorial # 36 - How to add “Email Subscription Form” to Blogger/Blogspot

Before you add Email Subscription Form to your blog, you need to "Burn" Blogger RSS Feeds at Feedburner.

What is RSS

A RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed is a XML-based format for your content. Most blogging platforms, for example, will have an RSS feed built in. Whenever you start publishing posts, your latest posts will be updated in the RSS feed. Visitors to your website can subscribe to your blog’s RSS feed.

What is Feedburner

Feedburner is a free web service which enhances bloggers ability to manage their RSS feeds and track usage of their subscribers.

The following steps show you how to Burn Blogger RSS Feeds:

Step 1: Go to Feedburner and sign in to Feedburner with your Google Account (create a Google Account first if you don’t have one).

 Step 2: To set up your RSS feed with Feedburner, simply copy the URL of your RSS feed and paste it into the “Burn a feed right this instant” box. Then click Next >>

Step 3: On the next screen, choose the second options - RSS

Step 4: On the next screen you will be given your RSS feed’s new URL on Feedburner. You will want to use this URL anywhere you reference your RSS feed on your blog. Change the feed title and address with your own.


Step 5: At this stage, just click on "Skip directly to feed management".

Step 6: Now you can change the default "Communication Preferences" if you want. This is basically the format of the E-mails which are to be sent to the subscribers.


Step 7: Now copy and paste the code (See screenshot below) into any webpage or HTML JavaScript widget. Your subscription form will be automatically. From there readers can subscribe to receive daily email regarding your newest content.


Now you're done. If you want a fancy type of Subscription Form, see the next tutorial - Tutorial # 37 - Fancy E-mail Subscription Form of Blogger

Step 8: Redirecting All Your Blog Feed To Feedburner - (Optional)
Unless you redirect all your blog feed to Feedburner you won’t get accurate subscriber numbers because some of your readers subscribe using your original blog feed.

To do this:

1. Go to Settings > Site Feed in your blog dashboard

2. Add your Feedburner address to Post Feed Redirect URL and click Save Changes.


3. Now all your feeds is automatically redirected through FeedBurner and you’ll be able to track subscribers. And now newest content will be automatically sent to your subscribers. Enjoy! You may check it by subscribing your E-mail. After subscribing you will receive an E-mail for confirmation which needs to be confirmed before getting daily updates of the newest content of your blog.
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Tutorial # 35 - Numbered Comments on Threaded Comments for Blogger/Blogspot

This tutorial helps you to understand how to add numbered comments with comment bubbles on the threaded comments as shown in the picture below:

This will help you to specify any comment using its 'reference' number.

Step 1: From your Blogger Dashboard, go to Template and click on the Edit HTML button:

Step 2: Click anywhere inside the code area and press the CTRL + F keys to open the Blogger's search box. Type ]]></b:skin> inside the search box then hit Enter to find it.

Note: you might need to click on the arrow next to it to expand the code within and then you need to search ]]></b:skin> one more time.

Step 3: Just above ]]></b:skin>, add the following CSS code:

- If you want to have no bubble icon, remove lines # 12-18.

- To change the comment bubble, replace the URL with the URL address of your own icon. [URL address of bubble/icon will be made by inserting it somewhere in your blog and then right-click on it and click on "Copy image address". Then the address will be saved in your clipboard which can be used to replace the URL in line # 14 of the above CSS code. After doing so, you may remove the picture inserted.]

- To change the position of comments count, increase/decrease the values (10 & 3) from padding-left and padding-top in lines # 12 and 13 respectively

- To change the position of comments bubble/icon, change the values (7 & 10) from margin-top and margin-left in lines # 15 and 16 respectively.

- To change the font and color of the comments count, change the values in lines # 10, 11 and lines # 27, 28.

Step 4: Now Save the Template and you're finished!

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Tutorial # 34 - How to Create Drop Caps (Big First Letters) in Blogger/Blogspot

This tutorial will help you to enlarge the first letter of posts and comments which stretches down three or four lines with the text wrapped around. That letter is called as "Drop Cap" The drop cap letter can also use a different font and have a different color from the rest of the text. This style can be often seen in newspapers, and magazines.


For Posts

Step 1: From your Blogger Dashboard, go to Template and click on the Edit HTML button:


Step 2: Click anywhere inside the code area and press the CTRL + F keys to open the Blogger' search box. Type ]]></b:skin> inside the search box then hit Enter to find it.

Note: you might need to click on the arrow next to it to expand the code within and then you need to search ]]></b:skin> one more time.

Step 3: Just above ]]></b:skin>, add the following CSS code:

Font size and color can be edited by amending the lines # 5 and 6 respectively.

Step 4: Now search for this code: <data:post.body/>

Step 5. Then immediately before and after add the red fragments you see in the example below: <div class='capital'><data:post.body/></div>

Step 6. Save the changes by clicking on the Save template button

Note: If the above code is not working, add one of following codes from this example: <p class="capital"><data:post.body/></p> OR try this instead: <span class="capital"><data:post.body/></span>


For Comments

Step 1: Follow the above Step 1, 2 & 3 (if you have already added the CSS code, skip above Step 2 & 3)

Step 2: Then Search for this piece of code:<data:comment.body/>

Step 3: Add <p class="capital"> before and add </p> after the above searched code

Step 4: Save your Template
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Tutorial # 33 - How to add Calender Dates Next to Blogger Posts

If you want to have a calendar style dates next to your Blogger posts, you need to look no further than this blog. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to create a calendar style for your Blogger posts date!


Step 1: Go to "Settings" > "Language and Formatting" - "Date Header Format" and change the date format as you can see in this example below (first add day, month and then year)

Step 2: Go to Template > click the "Edit HTML" button

Step 3: Click anywhere inside the code area and press CTRL + F to open the blogger' search box

Step 4. Type or paste the following line inside the search box and hit Enter to find it:
<h2 class='date-header'><span><data:post.dateHeader/></span></h2>

Step 5. In case you find it twice, replace it twice with this code:
<div id='Date'>
<script>changeDate(&#39;<data:post.dateHeader/>&#39;);</script>
</div>
<b:else/>
<div id='Date'>
<script>changeDate(&#39;&#39;);</script>
</div>

Step 6. Now type this tag inside the search box and hit Enter to find it:
</head>

Step 7: Just above the </head> tag, paste this code:


Before saving the Template, here we can make some changes:

- To change the calendar style, replace the url in line # 22 with yours;
- If the calendar doesn't appear as it should, change -108 line # 27 with 0;
- Lines # 38, 46, 53 where you can change the color of the dates

Step 8: Now Preview your Template and if everything looks ok, hit the Save Template button.
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Tutorial # 32 - Add Social Media Icons to Blogger Header

This tutorial will help you to add social media icons in the top right corner of the page which could increases the likelihood that readers can follow through the various social networks. The icons will rotate when you hover over them.

Step 1: Go to Blogger dashboard > Template > Edit HTML


Step 2
To expand the style, click on the small arrow on the left of <b:skin>...</b:skin>,


Then click anywhere inside the code area to search (using CTRL + F) for the ]]></b:skin> tag

And then add the following code just above it

Step 3: Now search for this line


Step 4: And just above it, add this code


Step 5: Following changes shall be made by you
- Change usernames at lines 4, 6, 8, 10 with your usernames and id: the first is your Facebook username, the second is that of Twitter, in the third you should change the X by the ID of your Google+ profile and in the fourth you will put the name of your blog.
- To change the icons, just replace the urls in the above mentioned lines with the ones of your images.
- You can add more icons if you want, you just have to add before </ul></div> a line like this for each extra icon you want with a Link URL and Image URL:


Step 6: Finally, Save the Template to apply the changes.
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