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News!! Hiding Subscribe To Post Service Service (Atom) At The Bottom Of Your Blog

This article explains how to remove the "Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)" particular that appears at the bottom of Blogger blogs alongside Layout or Designer templates.


Where does "Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)" come upward upwards from?

By default, Blogger puts the "Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)" particular on at the bottom of every embrace of posts inwards blogs alongside Layout or Designer templates (ref What type of template does my weblog have?).

This is useful for readers who understand what it means:  it lets them subscribe to an RSS feed of your weblog - as good as level if you lot lot don't personally purpose it, RSS is significant for bloggers.  However:
  • Some readers won't understand what it means,
  • If you're showing a "blog-site" (ie a website created alongside blogging tools, rather than a classic blog), the dominance doesn't build sense, level though the thought of RSS subscription does
  • It looks ugly, and
  • RSS-savvy readers who aren't Blogger users to a greater extent than ofttimes than not await for the fiddling orange foursquare alongside radar bars, rather than an obscure, Blogger-specific, description of the link.

So you lot lot may wishing to withdraw it from your blog and supervene upon it alongside a nicer-looking RSS-subscription button.


How to withdraw "Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)" from your blog:

1  Edit your template

ii  Find this code inwards your template:
<!-- feed links-->
<b:include name='feedLinks'/>
iii  Replace it alongside this code:
<!-- feed links
<b:include name='feedLinks'/>   -->

What you lot lot bring done is to comment-out the code:  the "-->" is the "end of comment" dominance inwards HTML.

This approach is ameliorate than "hiding" the link past times times making it the same color as your background (which could concord out seen as trying to embrace things from the search-engines).  It won't bring whatsoever negative resultant on your blog's performance, as good as you lot lot tin ship away undo it rattling easily past times times moving the end-of-comment text dorsum again.



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