Change setting on your posts, customize & use email to post

Change settings on your posts

Add labels to your posts, schedule when your posts will be published, and choose how HTML works by changing these settings.

Categorize a post with labels

You can categorize your posts by adding keywords:

1. Sign in to Blogger.
2. Under the blog, click Posts.
3. Select the posts you want to label.
4. In the top left corner, click Label :
   • To add or remove a label, select the label in the list.
   • To make a new label, click New label.

Note: You can have a maximum of 5,000 labels per blog and 20 per post.

Schedule a post

1. Sign in to Blogger.
2. Under the name of the blog, click Posts.
3. Click the title of the post.
4. On the right, click Post settingsSchedule.
5. Choose a time and date to publish your post.
6. Click Done.

To set your time zone:

1. In the main dashboard, in the left menu, click SettingsLanguage and formatting.
2. Under “Formatting,” choose the time zone you want.
3. In the top right corner, click Save settings.

Choose how HTML and line breaks are handled in your posts

1. Sign in to Blogger.
2. Under the name of the blog, click Posts.
3. Click the title of the post you want to edit.
4. On the right side, click Post settingsOptions.
5. Choose how HTML code is displayed when entered in Compose mode:
   • Show HTML literally: your blog shows HTML code as it is typed
   • Interpret typed HTML: your blog shows HTML code as formatted content
6. Choose how line breaks are handled.
7. Click Done.
8. For posts that have already been published, click Update or Revert to draft. For posts that haven’t been published yet, click Publish or Save.

Other ways to customize your posts

Change how your blog looks, change the language, or choose to make posts using email.

Create a post template

Save time by automatically formatting your posts:

1. Sign in to Blogger.
2. Click the blog.
3. In the left menu, click SettingsPosts, comments and sharing.
4. Under “Posts,” next to Post Template, click Add.
5. Add your template.
6. In the top right corner, click Save settings.

Add a "Read more" link

Instead of displaying the entire post, you can just show a summary with a link to “Read More:”

1. Sign in to Blogger.
2. Click the blog.
3. Click the post.
4. In the composer box, place your cursor where you want to put the “Read More” link.
5. Click Insert jump break .

Use a different alphabet

You can type words in English and have them appear in another script, such as Arabic or Russian:

1. Sign in to Blogger.
2. Choose the blog.
3. In the left menu, click SettingsLanguage and formatting.
4. Under “Language,” select Enable transliteration.
5. Choose your language.
6. In the top right, click Save settings.
7. Open a page or post you want to edit.
8. On the Post editor next to the spell check button, click the Transliteration button.
9. Type the text you want. As you type, a drop-down list will appear with options in the script you picked. Choose the text you want to appear in the post or on the page.
10. To change languages, next to the Transliteration button, click the Down arrow . Choose the language you want to use.

Use email to post to your blog

Turn on posting by email

1. Sign in to Blogger.
2. Choose the blog.
3. In the left menu, click SettingsEmail.
4. Choose whether to publish emailed posts immediately or to save them as drafts and publish them yourself later.
5. In the top right corner, click Save settings.

Post by email

1. Create an email with your post title as the subject.
2. The body of the email will be the post:
   • To mark the end of your post, enter #end.
   • To include an image, attach an image to your email.
3. Send the email to the email address you created: (username.[secretword]@blogger.com).

Note: Anyone who emails this unique email address will be able to post as you on your blog