Blogger.com Help – Lesson 5 – The Edit Posts Screen

Editing your posts is one of those guaranteed tasks that goes along with blogging. In this post, I’ll take a look at the Edit Post screen and identify each part of it. Knowing the edit posts interface is helpful to know so here’s a quick overview of the screen.

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Here’s a short and sweet overview of the edit posts screen.

Overview of the Page

You’ll be visiting the edit post screen often if you use Blogger.com’s interface for managing your posts. It is from here that you can review your entire catalog of posts. Let’s take a look at each of the parts that make up this screen.

1. The New Post Button – This will take you to the new post screen where you can write a new post.

2. Search – The search feature will help you narrow down the number of posts you are looking at. So it works like a filter. Looking for that one post amidst hundreds is just not feasible and will waste your time. Type in some keywords that you know were used, and limit the number of items to help you find what you are looking for faster.

3. Posts Per Page – This controls the number of posts that display per page on the screen. Use a higher number to view more posts at a time, use a lesser number to see less.

4. Labels – These show all the labels you have used for each post you have written. Again, this is another way you can filter down the number of items you are looking at to help you find posts faster.

5. The Post List Header (from left to right)
   1. Label Actions – This is a multi-function (it does a lot of stuff) control that works with the selected posts (selected posts are the items with checkmarks in the checkbox next to the post title). If you want to add a new label, select the ‘New Label’ item in the drop down list. That will add a new label into your existing label list. If you have items selected in your list of blogs, you can apply labels to those posts, or remove labels. You can view the existing labels on the post you are viewing by looking right under the post name. Those green labels are the labels applied to the post.

   2. Select All/None – Toggles the selection of posts in the currently viewed list. Clicking ‘All’ will place checkmarks in every checkbox, thus selecting them. ‘None’ will remove all checkmarks.

   3. Your Posts – Another filtering mechanism, allows you to limit the posts that meet the ‘All’, ‘Drafts’, ‘Scheduled’ or ‘Published’ types.

   4. x – y of z – No, it’s not math, it just represents the final part of the Post List Header. It tells you the number of posts you are looking at, and where you are amongst your entire collection of posts. If you look at my image above, you’ll see that I am looking at post 1 through 3 of 3 total posts.

6. An individual post item – This tells you just about everything you might want to know about your post. From right to left again:
   
   1. Checkbox – Provides a way for you to ‘select’ the item for interacting with other parts of the screen. Unchecked simply means the item is not ‘selected’.

   2. Edit Link – The edit link will take you to the same ‘add post’ screen. The post you selected will be displayed, and you can proceed to edit the post.

   3. Arrow – The arrow controls the display of the post body. Click it to show or hide the text as desired.

   4. Post Title/Excerpt – Shows the title of the post, or a short snippet of the first paragraph found in the body. Any green text shows you the labels applied to the post.

   5. State Indicator – The state of the post. Is it a draft? Scheduled? Note that published items show as blank.

   6. Comments – Got comments on your post? This field shows you how many comments are on each post. Clicking the ‘x comments’ link will take you to the public view and show you the comments for that post.

   7. Publish Date/Time – This will show you the official publish date and time of the post.

   8. By Who? - If you have multiple authors on your blog, the authors name will display here for each post. If you are like me and have only yourself to slave out some posts, then you should only ever see you name there. If you start seeing someone else, worry!

   9. Delete – Is it really that bad? Need to get rid of a post, this is your ticket then.

With that, we have touched on each item found on this page. Have you discovered any tricks while working on this screen, or have any habits that save you time in certain circumstances? Please share it with us and let us know by leaving a comment!

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