News!! How To Add Together A Gadget To A Spider Web Log Amongst A Dynamic-View Template

This article is nearly how to add together widgets (also known every bit gadgets) to blogs that accept dynamic templates.

Beer spectacles tin accept widgets, and
now  dynamic-view blogs tin accept them too

Previously I've described dynamic templates, together with how you lot tin plow them on, together with also off, on your blog.   And when people asked "how create I position a whatever gadget onto my blog", the short reply was " you can't - yet".

But immediately Blogger accept announced that it's possible - their post also shows us how the docked widget bar works.

And if your weblog already has a dynamic template, they've added a few gadgets for you.   For my exam blog, this was Followers, Archive About me and Subscribe - I'm non certain if these are the alone ones, or it was based on my layout earlier the weblog went dynamic.

How to add together a gadget to a weblog amongst a dynamic template

This is only similar adding a gadget to a weblog amongst a designer or layout template, ie:

• Go to the Layout tab  
• Click Add Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Gadget.
• Choose your gadget, together with configure it if necessary.
  (NB Blogger appear to survive converting all the existing gadget setup screens to the new-interface-look-and-feel, thus don't survive surprised if the buttons etc within the gadget parameter windows facial expression different)
• Preview to cheque it's ok
• Click Save Arrangement.

Job done.

You may accept noticed that at that topographic point are around gadgets which you lot tin endeavour to add, but which don't present upwards on your blog.   As Blogger's annunciation says

Gadgets supported inwards Dynamic Views currently include: Blog Archive, Followers, Labels, Profile, Subscribe (a novel gadget - automatically introduce if either Follow By Email or Subscription installed), together with Link List.

So no HTML, no AdSense, no Blogroll (except you lot tin brand your ain amongst the Link List), Statistics, Slideshows, Polls, etc ... yet.    To brand matters worse, there's goose egg to tell you lot what gadgets you lot cannot add:  you position them in, but they're only non at that topographic point 1 time you lot salve together with facial expression at the blog.

But around of them may conk available, if Blogger tin figure out how to house amongst within the type of infinite they're using for gadgets on dynamic views, where nosotros don't actually accept a sidebar.   And until then, the next department from my master copy post even thus applies.

In the meantime

The October announcement did present how you lot tin customize the colors of your dynamic-template blog.

Southern Speakers has been publishing lots of how-to data nearly how you lot tin format dynamic weblog elements past times adding CSS rules - his most recent post is nearly how to withdraw static page titles.   He has also described a agency to put gadgets that you lot tin teach the code for into a page - this description is specifically for the Followers gadget, but could survive applied to other code too, provided you lot tin teach the code.

And if you lot want, you lot tin only switch dorsum to using your most-recent template, together with hold off for the improved version of dynamic templates to arrive.

Or you lot could create cunning things, similar put AdSense ads into your posts instead.

For history's sake

This is the trunk of my master copy post.   It's non truthful whatever more, but I desire to conk along it here, inwards representative I demand to purpose around of this text agaon - or thus you lot tin run into how much ameliorate things are now.

The Full Story:Google told us inwards belatedly Oct 2011 that they're working on making this possible.   They haven't said when they facial expression to accept this available.   If we're actually lucky it volition survive "one twenty-four hr menstruation real soon" (and man child volition I accept a crimson human face upwards if they denote how to create it tomorrow!)

I suspect that it's non an slow thing to do, because dynamic template blogs are basically a totally dissimilar agency of displaying your blog, using your RSS feed and (now) CSS rules, rather than reading all the pattern details from the weblog itself.   Providing this, along amongst the degree of pattern command that people with Designer together with Layout templates are used to, powerfulness survive quite technically challenging.

I've written this article because I got sick of explaining "no non yet" inwards the assist forum:  I actually desire to hand people at that topographic point the total story, but finding the link to that Oct annunciation every fourth dimension was a pain.   Now I tin only link to this.

But hopefully I'll survive able to totally re-write it, real shortly  :-)    Giving negative answers isn't nearly every bit satisfying every bit explaining how to create things.

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