Learning Blogger from Scratch

Learn to customize a blog post by changing font sizes, selecting font types such as Verdana, and applying headings and paragraph styles in Blogger.

Explore basic text formatting for your blog post, including bold, italic, underline, strike through, font color, and background color. Preview updates and view the published post to see all formats.

Insert special characters in your content using the insert special character tool, resize symbols like a neutral face, and draw or search for others to enrich your content.

Add photos to your blog post from multiple sources using insert image, uploading from your computer, by URL, or from Google Photos and Blogger.

Learn how to upload videos from your computer to a Blogger post, process the video, place it within the post, adjust quality, and view it in the video player.

Learn to insert YouTube videos into your blog post by selecting insert video, choosing YouTube, and inserting the video with the YouTube player, then preview the result.

Learn how to place and resize photos and videos with left, center, and right alignment, switch between small and original sizes, and drag handles to resize on the fly.

Add image captions and alternative text by toggling caption, selecting font type and image size, and entering caption and title text, then update.

Add and manage labels in blogger posts using the post settings label section, separating labels with commas, then view and filter posts by label on the blog.

Learn how to preview, save as a draft, and publish blog posts in Blogger. See how drafts appear on your dashboard and how posts go live after publishing.

Learn to use the permalink to link directly to a blog post by locating the link on the right side, copying it, and opening it in a new tab.

Learn to geo-tag blog content by searching for a location like Kathmandu, adding it on the map, and displaying the tagged location on the post.

Learn to configure reader comments in blogger by enabling or disabling new comments, showing or hiding existing ones, and accessing all comments.

Explore how to switch between compose and HTML view in blogger's visual editor, insert HTML elements like a paragraph tag, preview changes, and see fonts update in real time.

Set the number of blog posts displayed per page in Blogger, save the setting, and refresh to see two or three posts with a more posts option.

Open a blank post, adjust settings to use a post template, and save to create a new post with the title hello and welcome to my blog in Blogger.

Enable and disable image lightbox in blog posts, view images in a lightbox with a faded background, and switch to a separate url window when disabled.

Learn to create and manage multiple blogs in a single account, name new blogs, save them, and access all blogs from the blogger interface.

Access and manage blog comments from the dashboard, including reading, refreshing, deleting, reporting, marking as spam, and replying by signing in with Google.

Open the stats panel to view all-time, today, yesterday, and this month blog views. Track posts, comments, followers, referrers, browser page views, and geographic access, then refresh for updates.

Learn to manage your reading list by adding blogs, following them publicly or anonymously, and refreshing to access content and redirects to other blogs.

Learn to manage blog posts by publishing, reverting to drafts, discarding, editing labels, and deleting posts using the blogger manage section and post filters.

Select a theme from the blog dashboard's theme section and apply it to change your blog's look. Preview the theme to view desktop, tablet, and mobile layouts.

Change the main theme color of your blog using the theme customize options. Pick colors like red, yellow, purple, or white, and save to apply the new look.

Learn how to customize a Blogger blog with a theme background by adding, removing, or uploading background images and selecting from available options.

Customize themes with advanced options to adjust background, main color, and transparency; modify fonts, sizes, boldness, italics, link colors and hover states, and tailor blog titles.

Back up and restore Blogger themes by downloading an XML backup and re-uploading to apply a previous theme, with steps to switch themes and refresh to confirm.

Learn how to switch from modern blogger themes to the first generation classic theme, apply changes, refresh, and save the silver or black nav bar color options.

Access the HTML theme editor from the theme section to customize your blog in detail. Edit HTML to change colors and other elements, then preview your theme as you go.

Navigate to settings and select basic information to update your blog title, description, and language, then enable adult content warnings if needed and save to apply changes.

Upload a save icon in settings, then compare how the lotus image appears as the favicon across browsers, with Chrome showing the blogger icon and Edge showing the uploaded icon.

Learn to hide or show your blog post from search engines by using the privacy settings to turn off or on the visible to search engines option.

Learn to manage publishing settings, update the blog address and subdomain, apply a custom domain when available, and enable https redirects to secure your site.

Invite multiple authors to your blog by using the permissions settings, sending invitations, and accepting invites to grant admin access and collaborative editing.

Set up reader access in blogger by adjusting permissions to public, private for authors, or custom readers, and invite additional authors or readers as needed.

Learn to set the blogger comment location embedded, full page, pop-up, or hidden via dashboard settings, and save to return to the default inline comment mode.

Set who can comment on your blog by choosing options like anyone including anonymous, Google account, or name and URL; restrict to members such as readers and authors.

learn to manage blog comments by configuring comment moderation settings—switch between never, sometimes, and always, approve posts before publishing, and receive moderation requests by email.

Learn how to add a custom message to the Blogger comment form by navigating to the dashboard settings, choosing the comment section, and saving a message that appears on refresh.

Learn to publish blog posts via email on Blogger by configuring settings, choosing immediate publish or drafts, and using secret words to trigger posts.

Set time zones and time formats for your blog by adjusting dashboard settings, changing timestamp formats for posts and comments, and applying the date header format.