Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Linked Titles in Blogspot

It is fairly easy to create clickable linked titles in blogspot that you don't have to constantly keep adding the html to your title bar, and the clickable title for your entire blog, too!

You adjust your template (one feature of blogspot that I find sooooo freakin' lovely, the ability to tweak the html of your blog)!!!!

**Note, since this will be using tags, I cannot show the straight html code, so, instead of less than and greater than, I will use parenthesis: (a href= "")(/a)

For a clickable blog title to your blog url on your main blogspot page.
1. Log in to blogspot, and click on the Template tag.

2. Scroll down in the template to find this text:
(h1 id="blog-title")

(ItemPage)(a href="($BlogURL$)") (/ItemPage)

($BlogTitle$)

(ItemPage) (/a) (/ItemPage)

(/h1)

3. Remove the (ItemPage) tags - this will cause your blog url to be a clickable link on your blog title even on your main page.

4. Save Template Changes and Republish Index!

To add a clickable title for each post
1. Log in to blogspot, and click on the Template tag.

2. Scroll down in the template to find this text:
(h3 class="post-title")

(BlogItemUrl)(a href="($BlogItemUrl$)" title="external link")(/BlogItemUrl)

($BlogItemTitle$)

(BlogItemUrl)(/a)(/BlogItemUrl)

(/h3)

3. Change the

($BlogItemTitle$)

to look like

(a href="($BlogItemPermalinkUrl$)")($BlogItemTitle$)(/a)


4. Save Template Changes and Republish Index!


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