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Saturday, 13 April 2013

Blogger Magic - Managing The Pages In Your Blog

Some blog owners are never quite sure how to manage all characteristics of the Pages, in their blog.

From time to time, in Blogger Help Forum: How Do I?, we see evidence of the confusion.
How do I hide the Home tab?
or
I can't rename my pages!
Some blog owners may know of one Pages management wizard, but not another. To the untrained, it may all seem like one big magic show.

There are actually 3 wizards, which let us manage the pages.
  • The Configure Page List wizard (aka Pages gadget).
  • The Layout wizard.
  • The Pages wizard.

The Configure Page List wizard is accessed from the Layout wizard, by Editing the Pages gadget - or can be accessed from the blog face, using the QuickEdit icon, if QuickEdit is enabled. It has several functions, in managing pages.
  • Change the Title of the Pages gadget, in the Layout wizard display.
  • Hide / Show specific pages.
  • Reorder specific pages, by dragging and dropping in the Page order wizard.

The Layout wizard is accessed from the dashboard. It has two functions, in managing pages.
  • Provide access to the "Configure Page List" wizard, by Editing the Pages gadget.
  • Relocate / restructure the pages list, by dragging and dropping the Pages gadget.
    • Drag the Pages gadget to the top of the blog layout, and it morphs into the tabs gadget.
    • Drag the Pages gadget into the sidebar, and it morphs into a linklist.

The Pages wizard is accessed from the dashboard. It has various functions, in managing pages.
  • Hide / relocate / restructure the pages list, by changing the "Show pages as" selection.
    • Selected as "Top tabs", it relocates to the top of the blog layout, and morphs to the tabs gadget.
    • Selected as "Side links", it relocates to the top of the sidebar, and morphs into a linklist.
    • Selected as "Don't show", it disappears, and lets you develop your own page list gadget (or not).
  • Reorder specific pages, by dragging and dropping in the Pages order wizard.
  • Add pages, using the "New page" selection.
  • Selecting "Edit" or "Delete" for a specific page beneath "Pages", you can
    • Edit the Title of a page.
    • Edit the content of a static page.
    • Edit the URL of a dynamic page.
    • Delete a page.

None of this is magic - though the differing abilities of the several different wizards may bring to mind the different members in a typical MMORPG team.

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