How to find a gadget in the Add a Gadget list - quickly

<b>This article explains a quick way to find the widget that you are looking for in the list that Blogger displays when you use the Add a Gadget tool.</b> <br /><br /><br /><div style="clear: both;"></div><a name="more"></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAWsMc1ofPfeu-nU-DZzJKb_HZnq_bNKHQnbME7Xp7VEF13FuYvIYCTQgu7Vksjgmc7K7xu1kPyV0yKd2TBc_7QDlcAoECfbVDU05MZqXV58uFaJaAxEL3oPZbCrirnLWdMPlCVpvAq5XL/s640/finding-things-quickly-in-blogger-add-a-widget-page-element-tool.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAWsMc1ofPfeu-nU-DZzJKb_HZnq_bNKHQnbME7Xp7VEF13FuYvIYCTQgu7Vksjgmc7K7xu1kPyV0yKd2TBc_7QDlcAoECfbVDU05MZqXV58uFaJaAxEL3oPZbCrirnLWdMPlCVpvAq5XL/s640/finding-things-quickly-in-blogger-add-a-widget-page-element-tool.png" width="280" /></a></div>When you start to<a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/03/adding-gadget-to-your-blog-using.html"> add a gadget to your blog,</a> Blogger opens a new window listing all the existing page-elements that are available (in two tabs) and allowing you to upload a widget of your own (in a third tab.)<br /><br />Currently, the first tab (called Basics) has 28 gadgets listed, while the second one (called More gadgets) has 899, displayed in pages of 30.<br /><br />There is a search-for-gadgets feature available on the second tab - but it doesn't return gadgets that are listed on the first tab.   And even when it did, I didn't recommend it, because sometimes 3rd party gadgets with similar names were listed before the official widgets developed by Blogger.<br /><br />So, to find a gadget that's listed in the Basics tab, you have to <b>scroll down the list</b> until you see the gadget you want.   However there are some problems with this.<br /><div><ul><li>Given that there are 28 gadgets listed, but only about 4 shown at each click (may be different if you have a larger screen), this can be a lot of clicks.</li><li>It's very easy to miss the gadget you want, and keep clicking through to the bottom instead.</li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div>But there is a very simple way to go directly to the gadget you want, provided you know what it is called, or some words that are shown in the description of that gadget and no other.</div><div><br /><br /></div><h2>How to navigate directly to your desired gadget</h2><div>Choose Add a gadget</div><div><br /></div><div>When the new window has opened, <b>use your browser's "find" command</b>. <br /><ul><li>In Chrome and Firefox, this is ctrl /f ,   ie hold down the Control key while pressing the "f" key once.</li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div>Type in a  few letters of the name (or description) of the gadget you want.  </div><div><i>Note:  these can be any letter, they don't have to be at the start.  But they must appear together.</i></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnulwSq4SzDXVW4s7LapyYuyntnc_72hbR36i_tEBK6QLs6X0Dbcfkte0U6R0_J2eWDTKwS4p2943E2FdFDEgAp_KrYrFg3Ut8GspIpINzIGkLwKRhzPzUS8OykofVG1zgfDd6CXxjQnn8/s640/browser-find-feature-to-locate-blogger-gadget-letters.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnulwSq4SzDXVW4s7LapyYuyntnc_72hbR36i_tEBK6QLs6X0Dbcfkte0U6R0_J2eWDTKwS4p2943E2FdFDEgAp_KrYrFg3Ut8GspIpINzIGkLwKRhzPzUS8OykofVG1zgfDd6CXxjQnn8/s640/browser-find-feature-to-locate-blogger-gadget-letters.png" width="80%" /></a></div><br /><br />Usually, as soon as you start typing, your web-browser will start scrolling down to the first place in the screen where the letters you type appear.   So if you choose the gadget details you type carefully, you should end up scrolled down to the gadget you want very quickly indeed.<br /><br />The scroll bar at the side shows how far down the window you have come, and also if there are more cases of those letters further down the page.<br /><br />And once you are at the gadget you want, you can just c<b>lick the name or the blue plus-sign</b> on the right side to open the gadget configuration page.<br /><br /><h3>To sum up:</h3><blockquote class="tr_bq">Use your browser's Find tool to go straight to what your're looking for in the Add a Gadget list.  <br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/Use%20your%20browser's%20Find%20tool%20to%20go%20straight%20to%20what%20you're%20looking%20for%20in%20the%20Add%20a%20Gadget%20list%20http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.ie/2014/08/quickly-find-items-in-add-a-gadget-option-list.html%20via@BloggerHAT" target="_blank">[tweet this]</a></blockquote><br /><br /><h2>What to search for to find popular gadgets</h2>The words that I search for most often when I'm adding gadgets are:<br /><ul><li>HTM - for the HTML/Javsascript gadget</li><li>Ads - for the Adsense gadget</li><li>Link L - for the linked-list gadget.</li></ul><br /><br />What about you - what gadgets do you most frequently add to your blogs?<br /><br /><br /><br /></div><hr /><h2>Related Articles:</h2><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2014/04/backing-up-blogger-gadgets.html">Backing up your gadget settings</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/03/adding-gadget-to-your-blog-using.html">How to add a gadget to your blog</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/07/html-code-for-popular-gadgets-in.html">Where to find the HTML code for popular Blogger widgets</a>

How to find a gadget in the Add a Gadget list - quickly

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Removing the label values from the blog-post header or footer

<b>This article explains how to stop label values from showing in the header or footer lines for each post in a blog that is made with Google's Blogger.</b><br /><br /><br /><div style="clear: both;"></div><a name="more"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip96BzSXh_HPyrcV_GyHBaL4BGjFNJDgeIw76f9U9Bcy1QRsfxoQZgUi9o7x_wkxa9lmVey6VrdR_qN5mFWQ_2HsPWdr3sG-IxaK6_jayGWfR3FCoZzQxKrvgj3A3bTrJsRiEKUxLqfjig/s516/remove-category-labels-from-blogger-post-top-or-bottom-positions.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip96BzSXh_HPyrcV_GyHBaL4BGjFNJDgeIw76f9U9Bcy1QRsfxoQZgUi9o7x_wkxa9lmVey6VrdR_qN5mFWQ_2HsPWdr3sG-IxaK6_jayGWfR3FCoZzQxKrvgj3A3bTrJsRiEKUxLqfjig/s320/remove-category-labels-from-blogger-post-top-or-bottom-positions.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>If you have used the Labels / Page-gadget approach to <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-put-put-posts-into-your-pages-in.html">putting your blogposts into separate pages</a>, then each of your posts will have one or more Labels <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/04/categorising-your-posts.html">attached</a> to them.<br /><br />Most Blogger templates are set up so that these label values are shown with the posts, too, in either just underneath the post-title or in the post-footer. And <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/04/posts-pages-and-navigation.html">when a reader clicks one of these post-specific label values</a>, they are shown a "post-listing format" blog page, which includes (<a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/03/jump-breaks-are-useful-even-if-you-only.html">the first part</a> of) all posts which have that label.<br /><br />However some people want to stop their blogs from displaying this these label values perhaps because:<br /><ul><li>They want their blog to <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.ie/2012/11/use-blogger-to-make-a-website.html">look more like a real website</a></li><li>They are using some labels which are meaningful to them as administrators but not to readers (eg at the moment, I'm using a label "ZZZ - needs 2013 review" to identify posts that I need to check to make sure they're up to date.</li><li>They just don't like having the label list shown for each post.</li></ul><br />Note that you can select which Label values are shown in the Label <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2012/03/adding-gadget-to-your-blog-using.html">gadget</a>, but there is no way to do this in the label list shown for each post.<br /><br /><br /><h2>How to turn off the list of labels shown with each blog-post</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><b><br /></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUXhw_v-hQ15n5zIkhTmjDpMYKiWld-FKOE5cFCrD97zmZiEPYUO7WFv1ZX89adwz1rEI9udjzkF9SjmujUHtJjCOp5T9BOxM1AHpZg-V3k-NaGTedC07kwckkyIGVrVzpkLrqdG7ENguX/s512/untick-labels-item-in-blog-post-gadet-settings-editing-screen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUXhw_v-hQ15n5zIkhTmjDpMYKiWld-FKOE5cFCrD97zmZiEPYUO7WFv1ZX89adwz1rEI9udjzkF9SjmujUHtJjCOp5T9BOxM1AHpZg-V3k-NaGTedC07kwckkyIGVrVzpkLrqdG7ENguX/s320/untick-labels-item-in-blog-post-gadet-settings-editing-screen.jpg" width="243" /></a></div><b>Log in</b> to the Blogger dashboard with an account that has <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2011/12/setting-up-new-administrator-for-your.html">administrative rights</a> to the blog<br /><br /><br />Choose <b>Layout</b> from the options for the blog<br /><br /><br />Locate the <b>Blog Post gadget</b> in layout screen, and click the <b>Edit</b> link for it.<br /><br /><br />In the list of options that is shown, un-tick the <b>Labels</b> option<br /><br /><br />Save the changes, using the <b>Save</b> button (currently in the bottom left corner)<br /><br /><br />Click the <b>Save Arrangement</b> button for the layout (currently in the top right corner of the layout editor).<br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Job done!</b> The next time anyone looks at your blog, the list of labels for each post should not be visible.<br /><br /><br /><h2>Troubleshooting</h2>Sometimes, changes that are made in the Blog Post gadget don't appear to have been applied when people look at your blog. For example, the labels may still be shown for each post, even though the Labels check-box is turned off.<br /><br />If this happens, the most likely cause is that your post template (ref: <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-data-in-blogger-blogs-is-organised.html">parts of a blogger blog</a>) has become corrupt. The only ways I know to fix this are to either<br /><ul><li>Change to a different template:<br />This needs to be a total change, eg Simple to Picture Window, not just changing from one to another option within the same template.</li><li>Resetting the blog-post gadget - described in detail <a href="http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2010/05/resetting-post-template.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</li></ul><br />The disadvantage of of either of these approaches is that customizations you have made to your blog are lost - this can be easy to forget when your customizations include important-but-more-subtle things like <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2013/05/get-adsense-data-in-google-analytics-for-more-than-one-site.html">ensuring your Analytics profile gets Adsense data</a> or <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2013/06/add-facebook-open-graph-tags-to-blogger-for-better-looking-shares-and-likes.html">installing Facebook Open-Graph tags</a> - or just plain annoying if you have <a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/03/putting-facebook-share-this-badge-on.html">put sharing buttons into individual posts</a>, and have to re-instate these<br /><br /><br /><br /><hr /><h2>Related Articles:</h2><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-data-in-blogger-blogs-is-organised.html">What are the components of a Blogger blog</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-put-put-posts-into-your-pages-in.html">How to put posts into pages in blogger</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/04/categorising-your-posts.html">Labels: a way to categorize Blogger posts</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com/2010/04/posts-pages-and-navigation.html">Posts and Pages - navigating while you are reading a blog</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.ie/2012/11/use-blogger-to-make-a-website.html">Making a blog look like a real website</a>

Removing the label values from the blog-post header or footer

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