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News!! Editing Published Posts Inwards Blogger

This article describes how to edit a post service that has already been published inwards Blogger, using the novel interface.


Where has the Edit Posts link gone

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Blogger's novel user-interface (UI) was introduced inwards September 2011.   ("Interface" is only a long discussion for the percentage subdivision of Blogger that y'all lot usage to practise things.)

The novel await has organised things inwards a slightly unlike way to the older (ie pre-September 2011) version of Blogger, together with or thence functions are a niggling harder to find.


The Edit Posts link has been replaced yesteryear a list showing y'all lot all posts, together with Edit links under each post inwards this list. These are the tools y'all lot inquire to usage to alter a post service 1 fourth dimension it's already been published, for number to create spelling errors, or add together together novel information.



How to alter a post service that is already published

Log in to blogger at /search?q=understanding-google-accounts">Google account that wrote the post, or 1 that is an administrator for the spider spider web log
If y'all lot made the blog, together with so y'all lot are automatically the administrator for it to get-go alongside - thence only usage your normal Blogger account.


You tin terminate like a shot consider the Blogger Dashboard. If y'all lot are using the novel interface it looks like this:



The region inwards the middle lists all the blogs that your work organisation human human relationship has access to.
Most people reading this article testament solely have got 1 spider spider web log - at the infinitesimal - but it's worth understanding how extra ones look.


Each spider spider web log has 1 problem inwards this section.   In the middle of the screen, beside the spider spider web log name, at that topographic indicate are four icons (small pictures):



  • A pencil (for write a novel post)
  • A stack of "papers" (for viewing your existing posts), which is right side past times side to a drop-down arrow (for getting to the other spider spider web log -options)
  • A button labelled "View Blog" (no prizes for guessing what it does!)   

Click on the stack of papers:  this opens a listing of all your posts.


In the list, hover your mouse over the title of the post service y'all lot wishing to edit.    The link testament highlight (slightly) together with y'all lot testament consider or thence links under the post-title. The links are
  • Edit
  • View  
  • Share (this 1 solely shows upwards if you've linked Google+ together with the blog)
  • Delete.



Click Edit:  this takes y'all lot to the post service editor. Make the changes y'all lot want, Press the Update force at the pinnacle of the covert to salve them.



Job Done!   You have got like a shot edited your post.


The quickedit pencil - a fast alternative


Depending on how your Post Template is pose up, y'all lot may consider a Quick Edit Pencil icon when y'all lot are reading a post.   If it is turned on, it testament handgrip upwards either below the post-title, or at the bottom of the post service inwards a higher work solid or below the contents. Clicking this icon takes y'all lot straight to the post-editor.

You testament solely consider the icon if it's turned on for your spider spider web log (in Layout > Blog Posts, edit), together with if y'all lot are logged inwards to Blogger using an work organisation human human relationship that is allowed to alter the posts.

Your readers testament never consider it.


Saving changes piece y'all lot edit the post

 Because y'all lot are working on a post service that is already published, the "autosave" feature testament non work.

So if y'all lot are going to build a lot of changes, y'all lot may wishing to copy the post to a private or exam blog.   There y'all lot tin terminate disclose the post service (ie salve it properly) every chip oftentimes every chip y'all lot want, together with no 1 testament consider the messy in-between-old-and-new stages.

 When y'all lot are finished, click the Publish force (near the top-centre of the screen)


What your readers see

Until y'all lot click Publish, the post service that your readers consider is the same every chip it originally was - no matter what changes y'all lot have got made inwards the post service editor.

If at that topographic indicate is a post service that y'all lot urgently inquire to "take down", together with so click the Revert to draft force (at the pinnacle of the screen, side past times side to publish).   This makes the post service unavailable until y'all lot side past times side click publish:   inwards the meantime, anyone who tries to consider it using a link testament consider this message:

Page non industrial plant life Sorry, the page y'all lot were looking for inwards the blog YOUR BLOG TITLE does non exist.



Making changes to a post service that y'all lot didn't write

author of, together with which they practise non have got administrator access to.

The curt answer is that y'all lot are non able to practise this - y'all lot inquire to inquire the post-author or blog-administrator practise it for you.

However if the blog-post has copyright material, at that topographic indicate may handgrip upwards or thence actions y'all lot tin terminate take.   And if y'all lot believe it breaks's Blogger's rules, y'all lot can report a toll of service violation.






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