Uniquely U

When you click a label link on a blog, a box appears at the top of your pages, "Showing posts with label ...". It looks weird and you might want to get rid of it, like me. From your blog design view, click "Template", then click the "Edit HTML" button; Ctrl-F to find this line: < b:includable id='status-message'> , click the little triangle on the left to expand the HTML; I commented out the <div> contents (in brown) and replaced it with an empty <div> tag; Save template.  That is all you need to do! If you miss the message box, you can always get it back by uncomment the HTML code. I will not miss it. 

When you have multiple posts of different interests in a single blog, you would want to organize them somehow. So far I have only found one way of doing it, using labels. First, tag your posts with different labels. From your blog design view, click Posts; Select the posts you want to group together by ticking their check boxes; On the header of the posts table, the first drop down menu has a tag symbol, that is used to create and label selected posts. Click it, then create a new label. Once you hit OK, you selected posts will be tagged with that label, which appears besides your post title. Secondly, show the posts grouped by label on your blog. From your blog design view, click Layout; Decide where you want your labels to appear. I chose sidebar-right-1. Click "Add a Widget". A widget selector window pops, scroll down to select Labels. Click the plus sign to specify the details of the labels, like giving it a name. I called mine "Interest...

This one may sounds trivial, "how hard could it be to delete a blog?", but it is not. I was expecting it appear on the "My Blog" page, beside each of the blogs, be a delete button or a drop down menu item ~ maybe a developer from Blogger will see this and make it logically happen ;) . To delete a blog: Go to "My blogs", where all your blogs are listed in the design view.  Click the blog name, then click Settings -> Other -> Delete blog. Deeply hidden, isn't it? ;)

I started this hobby by creating one blog for each of my interest areas: one for delicious pastries, one for life's little moments, and one for the dance class that I am leading. As time goes by, I found myself spending time and energy going back and forth among my blogs, both time consuming and energy sucking. Can I put them in one place? Oh, yea! A simple procedure does it. Go to "My blogs", where all your blogs are listed in the design view.  Decide which one is your main blog, that you want to merge others into. Repeat step 3 for each of the blogs.  Click the blog name, then click Settings -> Other -> Export blog. This saves an xml file on your computer hard drive.  Click your main blog name, then click Settings -> Other -> Import blog, uncheck "Automatically publish all imported posts and pages". It is a good practice to preview all changes before publishing them. Repeat this step for each of the blogs you have exported. If all your...