Today, Blogger Buzz announced a new version of the template editor.
This is exciting in all sorts of ways, including that it implies that Blogger testament buy the farm along to dorsum upward template editing: to a greater extent than or less people suspected that Dynamic Templates, which don't allow template editing, mightiness go the way of the future.
But there's ane immediate issue: many of the existing "How to practise XXXX inward Blogger" tutorials include statements like
Open your template for editing, together alongside tick the "Expand widgets" checkbox
or
Open your template for editing, together alongside build certainly that "Expand widgets" isn't ticked
However today's changes pick out deleted the Expand Widgets checkbox.
So - what practise you lot lot practise if you lot lot demand to expand the widgets? Luckily, this is ane of the things that has been made easier, inward ane lawsuit you lot lot accolade out where the pick has moved to.
How to run into expanded code for a gadget / widget
The equivalent of ticking the "expand" check-box is to:
1) Find the gadgetID in the green way.
2) Open the template for editing, together alongside find the reference to the widget / gadgetID inward the code
(Either using the browser's accolade characteristic - or the "Jump to Widget" characteristic that is conduct off inward the shipping service service editor.)
3) Click on the crease marker for that gadget.
This is the horizontal arrow ( ? ) which is inward the existent left side of the editing window on the same delineate of piece of employment organisation every fighting the gadget name.
Clicking it turns the sideways arrow into a down-arrow, together alongside shows you lot lot the code that's included inward that gadget - or at to the lowest grade every fighting much of it every fighting Blogger is going to allow you lot lot see.
To un-tick the expand check-widgets checkbox, exactly build certainly that all the fold-arrows are horizontal. (they piece of employment every fighting toggles - clicking them changes them from ane expanded to contracted, or vice versa).
What else has changed?
I'll go updating Blogger-HAT's main "How to edit your Blogger template" article earlier long - this is exactly a quick heads-up to starting fourth dimension with.If you've works life whatever to a greater extent than features of the new template editor that you lot lot similar (or don't) or which demand to a greater extent than explanation together alongside thus driblet a comment below together alongside I'll run into what I tin flaming do.