Make Your Blog More Attractive - Tip 4

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Hi guys! This the next tip in my series about making your blog more attractive. If you had missed the earlier versions, then click on the following links to read about them - Tip 1, Tip 2, Tip 3. This post basically deals with adding the text "Posted by" followed by the author name. If you wish to display the labels below the author name, well we have got the code that as well. Still confused? Check out the screen shot below!!!

The main advantage of adding tags/labels below your post title is that it will provide better navigation on your blog and your labels will get indexed by major search engines like Google. Interested to add this stuff on your blog??? Well, just follow these steps.

1. Login to your dashboard. Navigate to "Layout>>Edit HTML" from your dashboard. Make a back up of your template before you make any changes in the template.

2. Expand your template. To do so, make sure you have a tick mark enabled to the left of this text "Expand Widget Templates".

3. Once expanded, just search for the following piece of code. Use "CTRL+F" to fasten your search results.

<div class='post-header-line-1'>

4. Paste the following piece of code just below the line mentioned in step 3.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "static_page"'>
<b:else/><span class='post-author vcard' style='no-repeat;'>
<b:if cond='data:top.showAuthor'>
<data:top.authorLabel/>
<span class='fn'><data:post.author/></span>
</b:if>
</span>
</b:if>
<br/>
<span class='post-labels'>
<b:if cond='data:post.labels'>
Tags :
<b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>
<a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'><data:label.name/></a><b:if cond='data:label.isLast != "true"'> | </b:if>
</b:loop>
</b:if>
</span>

5. That's it!!! Save your template!!!

Go check out your homepage or post page, I'm sure you should find the author name followed by the labels you tagged with your post. I hope you enjoyed this post. See you soon with another interesting and attractive tip on my next post. We love to hear from you, so please keep your comments coming!!!

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