How To Display Facebook Like Box In Blogger?

Facebook like box is a great Widget for bloggers, which give you the opportunity to promote your personal blog or your website on social network. 

Today, Social networks have grown so much on the Internet, even Google consider Twitter and Facebook a major Factor for Search Engine Optimization. So, adding like box in your blog sidebar is an excellent practice to convert your visitors into loyal readers, by simply follow you in one click. We show you how to create Facebook like box for blogger blog easily.

Now follow these simple steps

First, go to Blogger and log in to your account. After you complete login, Click the blog title in which you want to add the Facebook Like Box and enter the main dashboard.

Now, Click on layout, then go to your sidebar widget.

Now, you need to Add a HTML/JavaScript Gadget to your blogger, which we will use it to copy iframe script code to display our Facebook like box.

Last thing to do, is to copy this code and add it on HTML/JavaScript Gadget.

<iframe 
src="//www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?
href=https://www.facebook.com/TripleClicks1032&width=290&height=250&
amp;colorscheme=light&show_faces=true&border_color&stream=false&header=false&" style="border: none; height: 250px; 
overflow: hidden; width: 290px;" >
</iframe>

Replace my Facebook page ID “TripleClicks1032” in the URL with your own ID of the page.

Go to your Facebook Page you will find the ID in the URL, Your ID should be as sequence of numbers or as username as you can see in below ScreenShot.

You can change the width and height of Facebook like box based on your Blogger blog template and click save the gadget.

Get Your Own FaceBook Like Box Code

The above code fits perfectly for all the blogs if you want to add new features like streams, color, width and height.

You can use this link Facebook Like Box and get your own code.

Now click on "Get Code" and copy it, later paste this code in HTML/JavaScript gadget.

Hit "Save" and refresh your blog or website. You will now see a stylish Facebook Like Box embed to your site.

Enjoy.

How To Add Official Google+ Badge / Widget To Blogger Blogs Or Websites?

Within one year, Google Plus has overtaken other social networking platforms by a fare large margin. If we see the statistics of the recent year 2012, then the facts are pretty much clear that Google+ is way ahead than others. 

Therefore, connecting your blog with Google Plus is an ideal way of magnetizing more new readers, as well as building a strong relationship with your followers. For Example, when a person shared his post on Google+ then, it will send messages to all the followers about that latest post which will increase the viewership. For that reason Today, Google officially released yet another Google plus Perk: The follower gadget (only for BlogSpot enabled websites). Today in this article, we will learn more about the Google+ Follower Gadget and will also learn how to integrate it in our Blogger site.

Add Official Google Plus Badge / Widget To Blogger Site

Sign into Google+, and go to Google+ Badges Page. Now, in Google+ user section, you can choose your profile, page or community. In other options, you may select as of your need.

Note:- If you want to add badge for your community, then go to your community page, and copy the link, and paste that URL to Google+ user section.

Make sure, if you are using badge for your community pages, you need selected the correct URL of your Community Page.

For example, my community page URL is

https://plus.google.com/communities/101384761918164914602

If you have pasted the correct URL, you will see the preview in the right side.

Remember! The code you will get for your Google+ Badge is divided in to TWO PARTS. To understand these two parts, see the below screenshot.

Code Placements

First Part Of Code:- Place this part of the code where you want your Google+ Badge / Widget to be rendered.

Second Part Of Code:- Place this part of code between <head> and </head> tags (Meaning! after <head> while before </head>).

Code Configuration

First of all Sign In to your Blogger Account.  Go to Blogger Dashboard, then Template, then click Edit HTML as you can see in below image.

Now click anywhere inside HTML Editor. Find the code (Using Ctrl + F keys) <head> or </head> as in below screenshots.

Search For <head>

Search For </head>

Now paste carefully the Second Part Of Code just below <head> tag or just above </head> tag. See the screenshot for both illustrations.

Paste Second Part Of Code below <head> tag.

Paste Second Part Of Code above </head> tag.

Now click on Save Template.

Now copy the First Part Of Code and paste it anywhere you want to display your Google+ Badge / Widget.

For Example

In Sidebar:- Paste First Part of Code into your sidebar widgets by going to Blogger Dashboard >> Layout >> Add A Gadget (choose from sidebars) >> HTML/JavaScript (Choose under pop up window) and paste your code and click on Save.

In Content Above / Below:- Sign in to Your Blogger Dashboard >> Template >> Edit HTML and find the code (Using Ctrl+F) <data:post.body/> and paste First Part Of Code just before <data:post.body/>  to display your Google+ Badge / Widget above the content area.

If you want to show it below the content area, paste First Part Of Code below <data:post.body/> and finally click on Save.

Note:- If you are using customized template on your Blogger blog, you would see <data:post.body/> code two times in your template, so try for each and look at your blog to find out which is suitable for your blog. Mostly it works in second time code.

You're done. Enjoy.

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Display Recent Tweets In Blogger With Twitter Widgets

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Reason To Remove YouTube Logo And Title Links From Embedded YouTube Video

To help your site visitors you will be embedding YouTube videos in your site, but this can cause to lose your site visitor. A person when viewing a video in your site can click that YouTube logo or title links and jumps to YouTube in which you are losing your site visitor. To keep your site visitor and to reduce bounce rate you should embed YouTube video without YouTube logo and title links. Let’s see how to remove YouTube logo and title links from embedded video.

Remove YouTube Logo & Title Links From Embedded YouTube Video

Follow the below steps to remove YouTube logo and title from video player.

Step 1:- Go to YouTube website.

Step 2:- Play the video that you want to embed and click share > embedded and copy the embedded code, to stop showing list of suggested videos after the video finishes playing un-check "Show suggested videos when the video finishes" check box before copying the embedded code as shown below.

Step 3:- to remove the YouTube Logo and Title link from the YouTube video you need to do minor changes in the embedded code.

<iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/bN5epS-2E-M?rel=0″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen>
</iframe>

Step 4:- Remove "allowfullscreen" from above code and replace "rel=0" with "modestbranding=1&showinfo=0".

<iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/CfCBWUkWzXM?modestbranding=1&showinfo=0″ frameborder=”0″ ">
</iframe">

After making above changes copy and paste the result embedded code in to your website and check it, now you won’t see YouTube logo, title link, suggest videos at end.

Congratulations! You've done it all.

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Customize YouTube Embed Player

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What Is A Favicon?

Favicon is a type of small picture, which size is (16px * 16px). It is also known as Favorites icon.  When we visit a website, we see a icon in our browser's address bar. This is known as favicon. Look at the ScreenShot Carefully.

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Important Of Custom Favicon

Blogger is a great blogging platform. You can easily able to create a blog on blogspot blogging platform. Blogger provide us free default template, blogger widget and also a default Favicon. This  is an orange colored icon which is look ugly.

There are a thousand of blog (which is made in Blogspot platform) that contains this default Favicon. To make your  blogger site more professional, you must need to add a custom one. Custom Favicon helps a website to increases the brand recognition. It is helps to get a better response from your blog reader. You will not see any of the pro bloggers, who are not using a custom icon on their blog. In blogging competition, you must need to branding your blog. Favicon plays an important role for branding your blog.

How To Create Favicon For Blogger / Blogs Or Websites?

You can create your custom Favicon using following Two Methods.

1. Using PicResize Website

1. First, you have to choose an image that you want to make it as a custom Favicon. If you want a part of any image, you should crop that part with equal size in width and height. 

(Recommendation:- The blog logo is always better to use it as a Favicon.)

2. Now, we are going to make any image as our custom Favicon in this step. We just want to change the image size into 16x16 or 32x32 px. Absolutely, you can use your own image editor software like Photoshop.

If you don't have any image editor then you can use this online image editor, picresize.com, to create your first custom Favicon. Follow the steps.

Just follow the simple steps as mention in the above preview like abcd. Finally click on "I'm Done, Quick Resize My Picture!" and save this image to your desktop.

3. Now, your newly created Favicon is ready to become live on your blog. You just need to upload this Favicon on any image hosting site, and copy the direct link of your image. Don't have image hosting site? Don't worry! You are a Blogger user. You can host any file into your Blogger and easily find the direct link of that image to use it anywhere on the web. You can read this article to upload any image on Blogger for hosting & get image's direct link.

4. Once you have direct link, proceed the following steps.

2. Using Favicon.cc Website

This is another method to create your own custom Favicon using Favicon.cc website.

Here you can take an example of Favicon in below screenshot.

If you're good at in Photoshop, then create a favicon (16px * 16px).

If you're not good in Photoshop, don't worry.

1. Click on this link Favicon.cc.

2. You will see a dashboard then click Create new favicon button and  create your favicon. You can able to using color, design etc.

3. After create a Favicon, click on Download favicon button. After downloading, you are complete to create a custom favicon.

Congratulations! You've created your Favicon successfully using both of the mentioned methods. Now, this is the time to add your Favicon to your blogger blog. So let's go ahead.

How To Add Custom Favicon To Blogger Blog?

Note:- You can use this single method to add your custom Favicon to your blogger blog for both of the above mentioned methods.

Sign into your Blogger Dashboard > Select your Blog > Layout > Click on 'Edit' under Favicon. See the below ScreenShot.

Now, click on browse, and select your custom Favicon. Finally, click on 'Save' button.

You're done it all.

Remember! It is an officially way to add a custom Favicon to your Blogger. However, older version of some browsers might show the default Favicon. If you also want to resolve this issue, proceed further more steps.

Sign into your Blogger Dashboard > Select your Blog > Template > Edit HTML, click anywhere on the Blogger code area. Now, press Ctrl + F to find ]]></b:skin> code, and just after this code paste the following code.

<link href='http://Your-favicon-url.png' rel='icon' type='image/png'/>

Never forget to replace the image link "http://Your-favicon-url.png"in the above code with your Favicon direct link. 

Now, click on "save template".

Note:- I have used .png format for my Favicon so I have mentioned png in the type field in above code.

If you want animated Favicon for your blog you can skip the official way to add your Favicon although you go with this method and you can use .gif format instead of .png format. Make sure if you are using .gif format as an animated Favicon, change png to gif under the type field in above code.

Similarly, If you want .ico format as a Favicon, replace png with x-icon under the type field in above code.

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Conclusion

Most of Blogger users don't know about custom Favicon option for their blog. Lets your visitors have open five different Blogger blogs on the browser, and navigating to other blogs. Now, he/she want to go in your blog's tab then he/she have to choose each tab till he/she reaches to your blog, but if you have a custom Favicon then your visitors can easily find out your blog by your unique Favicon. There are more advantages to use a custom Favicon that we have already discussed on this post. I recommend you to use it. If you have any doubt then feel free to ask me via comments. IF you like this article please share it to your friends and subscribe to our blog for latest updates.

Here I am providing very clear steps to Remove "Powered By Blogger" Attribution In Blogger. You can remove "Powered By Blogger" Attribution in THREE different ways which are given below. Just read and follow these steps.

1. Edit The Attribution In Your Template HTML

2. Click on the “Template” Option.

3. After that, Click on “Edit HTML” option. The below given figure shows the same.

4. After that, Click on “Jump to Widget” drop down list and choose “Attribution 1” option. The below given figure shows the same.

5. Have a look on “<b:widget id=’Attribution1′ locked=’true’ title=” type=’Attribution’>”. You will have to replace “true” with “false”. The screenshot of the same is shown below.

For more convenience (locked = 'true') replace it with (locked = 'false')

6. Now replace the “true” option with “false“. Once done, click on “Save Template“. The screenshot of the same is shown below.

7. Once done, Click on “Layout” option. You will find this option on the left side as shown below.

8. You would be able to see the layout of your template. Now, find the “Attribution” widget and click on “Edit” link. Below given figure shows the same.

9. Another screen will appear before you. Simply click on “Remove” button. Below given figure shows the same.

Congratulations! You have done it all. Now, Log out your account and log in again and enjoy.

2. Add Style In Your Template HTML

1. Go to template and press on HTML button and search for this code </head> the way I mentioned before. Look at the screenshot below.

2. Just above the </head> add this code.

<style>
                        #attribution
{
                        display: none;
}
</style>

See the below screenshot for clear understandings.

Congratulations! You're done once again.

Note:- you will see that the attribution widget still in your Layout but the word "Powered By Blogger" has gone.

3. Use CSS Code In Your Template Designer (Easy Way)

1. Jump to your Template again. But in this time you won't hit the button HTML but "Customize"

2. A template designer will show up click on "ADVANCED" and choose "Add CSS".

3. Add the below code and click "Apply to Blog".

#attribution
{
                        display: none;
}

Congratulations! Once again you've done with removing "Powered By Blogger" attribution from your blogger blog.

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What Are Post?

What Are Pages?

Pages are meant to be static “one-off” type content such as your about page, privacy policy, legal disclaimers, etc. While the WordPress database stores the published date of the page, pages are timeless entities. For example, your about page is not suppose to expire. Sure you can go back and make updates to it, but chances are you will not have about page 2012, about page 2013 etc. Because there is no time and date tied to pages, they are not included in your RSS feeds by default. Pages are not meant to be social in most cases thus does not include social sharing buttons, or comments.

You don’t want users to comment on your contact page, or your legal disclaimers page. Just like you probably don’t want others to tweet your privacy policy page in most cases.

Unlike posts, pages are hierarchical by nature. For example, you can have a sub pages within a page. A key example of this in action would be our Blueprint page. This feature allows you to organize your pages together, and even assign a custom template to them.

WordPress by default comes with a feature that allows you create custom page templates using your theme. This allows developers to customize the look of each page when necessary. In most themes, post and pages look the same. But when you are using your page to create a landing page, or a gallery page, then this custom page templates feature comes in very handy.

Pages also have this archaic feature called Order which lets you customize the order of pages by assigning a number value to it. However this feature is extended by plugins like Simple Page Ordering that allows you to drag & drop the order of pages.

Posts Options

There are a few options that are specifically for posts only.

Categories And Tags

Posts will use categories and tags, but pages don’t. There are plugins that do allow you to use categories with pages, but likely you will just need them for your posts.

Excerpt

The excerpt option lets you create a brief description of your post. It can be  very useful. How it displays will depend on your theme.

Here is an example would. Often you will find on your blog archive page that the full post isn’t listed. It might instead be a photo, the title and a short blurb that encourages people to click through to read the rest of the post. This is much better for your readers because they scan blog posts on your archive page without scrolling. By default, most themes will pull in the first few lines of the post. But if you add an excerpt, it often replaces those first few lines. Readers like it because it gives them a short synopsis of your post’s topic.

Send Trackbacks

Trackbacks are a way to let someone on another WordPress site know you are talking about them. Let’s say that I am referring to another blogger’s post in my post.I would  put in the URL of that specific post, and they would then be notified that I was talking about them. Cool, huh? But unfortunately trackbacks have become a source for spammers. So read up on the pros and cons a bit more to get a better idea of whether you should use them.

Pages Options

The only technical difference between pages and posts is found in thing Page Attributes.

Parent

This is where you can set pages as a child page of another page, which basically means a sub-page. You will only see the effect of this option when viewing all pages in your dashboard. It will not affect the navigation as you need to set that up in your Appearance > Menus.

Template

Every theme has a set of templates. Here you see two of the basic templates: Archive and Blog. You might choose the blog template if you want an inside page to be your blog posts, rather than your homepage. You can learn more about that in this post or this podcast.

You may see more templates than this screenshot shows you. Often themes have other templates, such as portfolio or landing page. A landing page template would likely remove the header and the navigation to create a simple landing page. I would recommend testing and viewing the templates available with your theme. Of course, the default template is what you will be using most.

Order

This is how you can order your pages. Again, this has no effect on your navigation menus. Like the Parent option, you will only see this on your All Pages dashboard view. By default, on that page they are listed in alphabetical order. You can, of course, list them in any order you would like.

Posts vs. Pages (Key Differences)

The differences we list below definitely have exceptions. You can use plugins or code snippets to extend the functionality of both content types. Below is the list of key differences by default.

1. Posts are timely vs. Pages are timeless.

2. Posts are social vs. Pages are NOT.

3. Posts can be categorized vs. Pages are hierarchical.

4. Posts are included in RSS feed vs. Pages are not.

5. Pages have custom template feature vs. Posts do not.

Frequently Asked Questions

How Many Posts and/or Pages can I have?

You can have as many posts and/or pages that you want. There is no limit on the number of posts or pages that can be created.

Are there any SEO advantages to one or the other?

Search engines like content to be organized. Timeless content is considered to be more important however there is a lot of priority given to latest timely content. In short, there may be a difference, but as a beginner you do not need to worry about it. Focus on making your site organized for the user.

Final Words

I have tried my best to let you understand the clear and basic difference between Posts & Pages in WordPress. Hope this article fulfilled all the basic knowledge and if you still have any confusion please comment below.