Post Footer – Customize Template (II)

We continue from where we left off in Post Footer – Customize Template (I). In the first part, we went through how you can change and customize the appearance of the “Posted by author” link and replace it with another name or picture. You could also remove the timestamp if you want. In this part, we continue with customization of the “Comments”, “Labels” and other icons shown in the Blogger Post Footer.

Comments

1. Settings

If you simply want to enable or disable Comments, login into your Dashboard and under Settings -> Comments, you will see the options for “Comments”. You can either “Show” or “Hide”. You can choose “Hide” so as not to show the Comment link, without deleting existing comments.

2. Change the word “Comments”

Should you want to retain the Comment link but change the word “Comments” to something else, scroll to this part of the template:-

<b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'> <a class='comment-link' expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'><b:if cond='data:post.numComments == 1'>1<data:top.commentLabel/> <b:else/><data:post.numComments/><data:top.commentLabelPlural/> </b:if></a> </b:if> </b:if> </span>

In my spiderman example, I wanted to use the phrase “Friendly Neighbors”. Where the blue code is, I replaced it with the phrase “Friendly Neighbor”, the singular form when there is only 1 comment. At the red part of the code, I replaced it with the plural form “Friendly Neighbors” when there are 2 comments or more. The resulting code is:-

<b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'> <a class='comment-link' expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'><b:if cond='data:post.numComments == 1'>1 Friendly Neighbor<b:else/><data:post.numComments/>Friendly Neighbors</b:if></a> </b:if> </b:if> </span>

And this is what you will see:-



Links to Post

If you do not want this in your Post Footer, go to Dashboard, under Settings -> Comments, you can choose to “Show” or “Hide” the “Backlinks”. If you select “Hide”, the backlinks to your Post and the words “Links to this Post” will not be displayed.

Email Post icon

In your Dashboard, under Settings -> Basic, you can see a query “Show Email Post links?” If you choose “Yes”, you will see the little envelope image for viewers to click to email the Post to other people. Should you choose “No”, that image will not be displayed.

Labels

1. Change “Labels” name

To suit the theme of your Blog, you may want to change the word “Labels” to something else, like “Subjects”, “Topics”, “Categories”, “Genre”, etc. Scroll to this part of the template:-

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> <b:if cond='data:post.labels'> <data:postLabelsLabel/> <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> </p>

Substitute the part of the code (shown in red) with the word that you want to use. The result is this:-



2. Image instead of name

In Part I of this article, we went into details on how you can use an image to replace the author's name. If you want to have a picture to replace the word “Labels”, the procedure is the same. Instead of the name to replace the part of the above code (shown in red), insert the image code. The resulting code would appear like this:-

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> <b:if cond='data:post.labels'> <a href="URL of your Blog"><img src="Image URL" /></a> <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> </p>

Further reading:-

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