News!! Editing Published Posts Inwards Blogger

This article describes how to edit a post service that has already been published inwards Blogger, using the novel interface.


Where has the Edit Posts link gone

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Blogger's novel user-interface (UI) was introduced inwards September 2011.   ("Interface" is merely a long give-and-take for the component subdivision of Blogger that you lot usage to exercise things.)

The novel await has organised things inwards a slightly dissimilar agency to the older (ie pre-September 2011) version of Blogger, together with or thus functions are a petty harder to find.


The Edit Posts link has been replaced yesteryear a list showing you lot all posts, together with Edit links nether each post inwards this list. These are the tools you lot ask to usage to alter a post service 1 time it's already been published, for event to create spelling errors, or add together novel information.



How to alter a post service that is already published

Log in to blogger at /search?q=understanding-google-accounts">Google account that wrote the post, or 1 that is an administrator for the spider web log
If you lot made the blog, together with then you lot are automatically the administrator for it to kickoff amongst - thus merely usage your normal Blogger account.


You tin terminate similar a shot run across the Blogger Dashboard. If you lot are using the novel interface it looks similar this:



The department inwards the middle lists all the blogs that your concern human relationship has access to.
Most people reading this article volition exclusively receive got 1 spider web log - at the minute - but it's worth agreement how extra ones look.


Each spider web log has 1 trouble inwards this section.   In the middle of the screen, beside the spider web log name, at that topographic point are 4 icons (small pictures):



  • A pencil (for write a novel post)
  • A stack of "papers" (for viewing your existing posts), which is correct adjacent to a drop-down arrow (for getting to the other spider web log -options)
  • A button labelled "View Blog" (no prizes for guessing what it does!)   

Click on the stack of papers:  this opens a listing of all your posts.


In the list, hover your mouse over the title of the post service you lot desire to edit.    The link volition highlight (slightly) together with you lot volition run across or thus links nether the post-title. The links are
  • Edit
  • View  
  • Share (this 1 exclusively shows upwards if you've linked Google+ together with the blog)
  • Delete.



Click Edit:  this takes you lot to the post service editor. Make the changes you lot want, Press the Update push at the summit of the covert to relieve them.



Job Done!   You receive got similar a shot edited your post.


The quickedit pencil - a fast alternative


Depending on how your Post Template is laid up, you lot may run across a Quick Edit Pencil icon when you lot are reading a post.   If it is turned on, it volition hold upwards either below the post-title, or at the bottom of the post service inwards a higher house or below the contents. Clicking this icon takes you lot direct to the post-editor.

You volition exclusively run across the icon if it's turned on for your spider web log (in Layout > Blog Posts, edit), together with if you lot are logged inwards to Blogger using an concern human relationship that is allowed to alter the posts.

Your readers volition never run across it.


Saving changes spell you lot edit the post

 Because you lot are working on a post service that is already published, the "autosave" characteristic volition non work.

So if you lot are going to brand a lot of changes, you lot may desire to copy the post to a private or examination blog.   There you lot tin terminate expose the post service (ie relieve it properly) every bit oftentimes every bit you lot want, together with no 1 volition run across the messy in-between-old-and-new stages.

 When you lot are finished, click the Publish push (near the top-centre of the screen)


What your readers see

Until you lot click Publish, the post service that your readers run across is the same every bit it originally was - no affair what changes you lot receive got made inwards the post service editor.

If at that topographic point is a post service that you lot urgently ask to "take down", together with then click the Revert to draft push (at the summit of the screen, adjacent to publish).   This makes the post service unavailable until you lot adjacent click publish:   inwards the meantime, anyone who tries to run across it using a link volition run across this message:

Page non works life Sorry, the page you lot were looking for inwards the blog YOUR BLOG TITLE does non exist.



Making changes to a post service that you lot didn't write

author of, together with which they exercise non receive got administrator access to.

The brusque response is that you lot are non able to exercise this - you lot ask to inquire the post-author or blog-administrator exercise it for you.

However if the blog-post has copyright material, at that topographic point may hold upwards or thus actions you lot tin terminate take.   And if you lot believe it breaks's Blogger's rules, you lot can report a price of service violation.






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