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This article explains a quick way to find the widget that you are looking for in the list that Blogger displays when you use the Add a Gadget tool. When you start to add a gadget to your blog, Blogger opens a new window listing all the existing page-elements that are available (in two tabs) and allowing you to upload a widget of your own (in a third tab.) Currently, the first tab (called Basics) has 28 gadgets listed, while the second one (called More gadgets) has 899, displayed in pages of 30. There is a search-for-gadgets feature available on the second tab - but it doesn't return gadgets that are listed on the first tab.   And even when it did, I didn't recommend it, because sometimes 3rd party gadgets with similar names were listed before the official widgets developed by Blogger. So, to find a gadget that's listed in the Basics tab, you have to scroll down the list until you see the gadget you want.   However there are some problems with this. Given that there ar...

This article shows how to use "marker text" to help find things when you need to edit the HTML code behind one of your blog posts. When you edit a post in Blogger, to start with you generally use the Compose mode, which shows you the formatted view of how your work will look. But behind that formatted view, every post is actually written in HTM L, ie Hyper-text Markup Language - a type of computer language that uses tags like <h2> or <a href="www.foo.com">  to say how to display the contents. A number of articles, here and in other blogger-helper blogs  tell you how to do thing by changing the HTML for the post. But if you are not used to working with HTML, it can be confusing tryign to fix the part that you need to change. Marker-text is a technique that you can use to "mark" problem areas while you are still in Compose mode, so that you can easily find them again when you are in Edit HTML mode. How to use marker-text to fix a problem in your ...

This article explains how to stop label values from showing in the header or footer lines for each post in a blog that is made with Google's Blogger. If you have used the Labels / Page-gadget approach to putting your blogposts into separate pages , then each of your posts will have one or more Labels attached to them. Most Blogger templates are set up so that these label values are shown with the posts, too, in either just underneath the post-title or in the post-footer. And when a reader clicks one of these post-specific label values , they are shown a "post-listing format" blog page, which includes ( the first part of) all posts which have that label. However some people want to stop their blogs from displaying this these label values perhaps because: They want their blog to look more like a real website They are using some labels which are meaningful to them as administrators but not to readers (eg at the moment, I'm using a label "ZZZ - needs 2013 review...