Showing posts with label Label. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Label. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Adding Label Name next to Blogger Post Title

AfterPost titles are usually located on top of your posts, and you can choose to show your post's labels at the bottom of you posts. Typically, you use label to categorize a post. For example, you'd use the label 'Books' to tell your readers that that particular post is about books, and 'Cooking' to indicate that it is a post related to cooking. Wouldn't it be cool if you could have your label automatically appear next to your post title, to allow your readers to distinguish which category your posts belong to? This blog post is a respond to Blog Readers Jelena Dimić and Euronomist.

Note: This is not a Dynamic View tutorial, as such it won't work with Dynamic View templates.

Step 1:

Backup your template by going to Dashboard - Template - Backup/Restore - Download Full Template. Next, go to Dashboard - Template - Edit HTML - Proceed - Expand Widget Templates - Find and delete the following lines:

Comments Label below Post Title

We wrote about how you can move the Labels to the top of the post so that Technorati can index the Labels as tags for those people who do not have full post feeds. In addition, users have asked whether they can show the number of comments at the top of the posts instead of the footer. In this tutorial, you will learn how to move the comment count link to the top, below the post title. We can even have the comments link appear at both the top and bottom of the post.

Before modifying the template, backup a copy of the existing template. Go to Template -