Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Stopping some pages appearing on the home page
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This article is about how to make sure that a given post never appears on your blog's so-called "home page".
Blogger and Home-pages
As explained previously, Blogger's usual approach is to show new visitors to your blog your most recent post - since hopefully they are return visitors coming back to check what you've written recently.
However there may be some things that you don't want to appear first when users go to your blog.
For example, contact details or lists of committee members, which users normally reach by clicking on a menu or link.
Option 1: pre-date the post
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Blogger and Home-pages
However there may be some things that you don't want to appear first when users go to your blog.
For example, contact details or lists of committee members, which users normally reach by clicking on a menu or link.
Option 1: pre-date the post
To ensure that a page is not what a reader sees when they arrive at your blog's home page, you just need to: make sure that its Post-date (which can be set in the Post Editor) isn't in the top N dates used in your blog, where N = the number of posts per page that you have selected. This is set:
- in the Blog Posts area which is under Design / Page Elements. Or
- under Settings > Formatting > Show at Most
By default, in most templates, it is set to 7. In many of my blogs, I've set in to 1, so there is only one post on each page. And even if Blogger chooses to show less posts than you have selected per page, this approach will still work.
Give a far-in-the-past date to pages that you never want to appear first. But don't make it so far in the past that they will seem like nonsense if Google ever converts historic posts. A date like 2-3 years ago might be a good compromise.
However if you follow this approach, then it would be a good to not display the post-date on ANY of your posts. If you do display it, and it's out-of-date, the reader will think
"gosh, those contacts haven't been updated since <>, they can't be right".
So you need to turn it off (also on Blog Posts), and if date is relevant, put it in the text of your posts.
Option 2: Use a Page instead of a Post
Blogger's so-called "static" pages are a far simpler was to meat this goal. Simply put the material that you do not ever want onto one of your regular Pages", an d"home page", and guaranteed not to show up on your home page or in your RSS feed.
This option was not available when this post was originally launched, but it has a lot to recommend it.
Related Articles:
Giving your blog a home-page
.Changing the date for a post
Putting Posts into your Pages
Why RSS is important to your site
The difference between Pages and Posts
Converting Posts into Pages
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In 2009, I started Blogger-HAT to keep "how to" notes about problems I'd solved using Blogger to build a public-transport information site for my city, and as a place to try out techniques before I let them loose on the main site.
About seven micro-seconds went into choosing the blog's name and URL - this was a site for me, not anyone else! The "hat" idea only came later - it's got to be the most under-designed logo in the blog-sphere. The design has been through a range of styles, colours and layouts, and will continue to change as I learn new techniques.
Today, my focus is mainly on sharing information about integrating Blogger with other tools.
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