News!! Hiding Subscribe To Post Service (Atom) At The Bottom Of Your Blog

This article explains how to remove the "Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)" especial that appears at the bottom of Blogger blogs amongst Layout or Designer templates.

Where does "Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)" come upwards from?

By default, Blogger puts the "Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)" especial on at the bottom of every cover of posts inwards blogs amongst Layout or Designer templates (ref What type of template does my weblog have?).

This is useful for readers who sympathise what it means: it lets them subscribe to an RSS feed of your weblog - as well as fifty-fifty if you lot don't personally role it, RSS is of import for bloggers. However:

Some readers won't sympathise what it means,
If you're showing a "blog-site" (ie a website created amongst blogging tools, rather than a classic blog), the ascendency doesn't brand sense, fifty-fifty though the sentiment of RSS subscription does
It looks ugly, and
RSS-savvy readers who aren't Blogger users to a greater extent than oft than non await for the lilliputian orangish foursquare amongst radar bars, rather than an obscure, Blogger-specific, description of the link.

So you lot may desire to withdraw it from your blog and supersede it amongst a nicer-looking RSS-subscription button.

How to withdraw "Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)" from your blog:

1 Edit your template

ii Find this code inwards your template:

<b:include name='feedLinks'/>

three Replace it amongst this code:

What you lot convey done is to comment-out the code: the "-->" is the "end of comment" ascendency inwards HTML.

This approach is amend than "hiding" the link past times making it the same color equally your background (which could hold out seen equally trying to cover things from the search-engines). It won't convey whatever negative resultant on your blog's performance, as well as you lot tin undo it rattling easily past times moving the end-of-comment text dorsum again.

How to edit your blogger template

Making an RSS subscription button.

Why RSS is of import for your blog.

Getting started amongst Feedburner

The Follow-by-email gadget, as well as tardily way to laissez passer your weblog email-subscribers