News!! Adding A Gadget To Your Blog, Using Blogger's Wysiwyg Interface

This article shows how to utilization Blogger's add-a-gadget tool.  

It also looks at how y'all tin motility a gadget roughly inwards your blog, as well as describes what y'all tin exercise alongside some of Blogger's most-popular gadgets.

Gadgets as well as types of Blogger template

Previously, I've explained what gadgets (ie widget) are, as well as the advantages as well as disadvantages of each method of adding i to your blog, as well as how to add together a gadget to a weblog alongside a dynamic-view template.

This artile looks at the details of using Blogger's ain add-a-gadget tool, how just to utilization it, as well as how to modify the placement of gadgets inwards your blog.

This is to a greater extent than in-depth than the dynamic templates article, as well as applies mainly to blogs alongside layout as well as designer templates.  The same full general approach is used for dynamic template blogs, but they exercise get got some features  that aren't discussed hither (eg a express hit of gadgets that truly work).

In-post, as well as HTML-code gadget:

The tool described hither lets y'all seat a gadget inwards whatever of the "gadget areas" inwards your blog.   The options are a footling unlike if y'all desire to put a gadget right within a blog-post.

Also, at that topographic point are reasons why y'all powerfulness prefer to instruct the HTML-code for a gadget, as well as install it similar y'all install whatever other code to your blog.   Read to a greater extent than near the reasons for using HTML-gadgets as well as places to instruct code that's equivalent to Blogger's official gadgets.

How to utilization Blogger's Add-a-gadget feature

From the Blogger Dashboard (www.Blogger.com)  go to the Layout tab

The layout concealment volition open.    On it. the Add a Gadget links demonstrate y'all all the places that y'all tin currently add together a gadget.

Choose one of these place.
(You tin become far possible to add together gadgets to other places meet How to add together a gadget higher upward your header, or Adding a novel footer department to your template for ideas on how to exercise this.)

Click the Add a gadget link at the transcend of the expanse y'all choose.


The format of the Choose-a-gadget window that opens used to hold off similar this, but has since been updated to the hold off similar novel interface.   But the same full general thought applies:  you several lists of gadget, inwards split upward tabs.

Choose a gadget from the list, or i of the tabs:

• You may necessitate to scroll downward the listing to uncovering the i y'all need.

• Do not utilization the search tool inwards the listing to uncovering the gadget that y'all desire - it sometimes doesn't operate correctly as well as solely shows gadget from third parties as well as non the official ones from Blogger.

• But it is ok to utilization your browser's search-tool - like this.

• Every gadget inwards the listing has a source: some are from Blogger.com. Some are from other recognised companies (eg Amazon.com), But some are from individuals, but similar y'all as well as me. The danger alongside using a third political party gadget from this listing is that y'all get got no agency of looking at the code behind it, thence y'all cannot create upward one's heed if it's rubber or not.
  
  I recommend only choosing gadgets from Blogger.com, or other good known companies.

Select the gadget past times clicking the pocket-sized blueish summation sign beside the name.


This opens the gadget configuration screen, where y'all enter the details of how y'all desire the gadget to work.

Every gadget needs unlike details.

For example, inwards the Popular Posts gadget, y'all must choose

• to listing pop posts since statistics started, or the concluding vii or xxx days
• whether to demonstrate the paradigm thumbnail
• whether to demonstrate the postal service snippet
• how many posts to show

When y'all get got entered the parameters, click Save.

This takes y'all dorsum to the blog-layout screen.  The novel gadget is at the transcend of the listing of gadgets inwards the area where y'all seat it. If y'all gave it a title, as well as thence this volition demonstrate up. But if y'all left the championship blank, the concealment but shows the gadget type.

Use the Preview push to meet what the front end page of your weblog volition hold off similar alongside the gadget added.

Change the position of the gadget if y'all desire to (see the side past times side department if y'all necessitate attention alongside this).

Once y'all are happy alongside the gadget as well as its position, click Save to apply it to your blog.

How to modify the seat of a gadget:

You tin motility a gadget (new or existing) into whatever house inwards your blog-layout that y'all tin add together a gadget to.   In the Layout (Design > Page elements) screen:

1. Single-click on the gadget as well as hold the mouse push down.   Keep belongings it down.
   
2. Dragging the mouse moves the gadget to other places, including further downward the listing of gadgets currently inwards that space, or into a totally unlike business office of the blog.
   
3. Once the gadget is inwards the house where y'all desire it to be, let become of the mouse-button.

Once y'all are happy alongside the seat of all the gadget, click Save (in the former Blogger) or Save arrangement (new Blogger) to apply the novel places to your blog.

There are other things that y'all tin exercise alongside gadget, too, including only demonstrate them on the Home-page, as well as making a gadget that looks similar a post.

What tin Blogger's gadgets last used for

Some of the most pop gadgets provided past times Blogger are:

Labels	Lets your readers pick a category as well as meet a listing of posts from your blog alongside that category.
Popular posts	Shows the most-frequently read posts from your blog
Pages	Similar to Labels as well as the linked-list gadget, this i tin demonstrate a listing of either Pages from your weblog or external sources, as well as it tin also last used to make a card bar for your blog
Blogroll	Highlights other blogs that y'all follow
Picture	Shows a picture, of your choice, which tin link to somewhere equally well.
RSS	Displays the concluding few posts from an RSS feed - this tin be any feed that y'all choose - non but your ain one.
HTML/Javascript	Lets y'all add code that came from a third party, or that y'all wrote yourself, without having to edit your template.
Link List	A general-purpose gadget for adding a listing of web-sites as well as weblog pages, either within or exterior your blog.

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Related Articles:

Finding an item inwards Blogger's add-a-gadget list, quickly.

How to edit your blog's template

Options for adding gadgets to your blog

Adding a gadget higher upward your header

Adding a novel footer department to your template

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