Oh my GOODNESS!!!! This is GREAT news for all Blogger Bloggers!!!! This is a feature Blogger users have been waiting for.
For Stampin' Up! demonstrators, you would use "Pages" for selling Tutorials, Card Kits, Handmade Items, Planners and more, where you could create a separate page for each type of product you are selling.
For other business owners, this may be to use a "page" to describe each service you provide or each type of product you sell.
Where to Find Pages
1. Login and from the Dashboard go to Layout, then Page Elements.
2. Add a Gadget and choose the 1st one, Pages (NEW!).
3. You can rename the title, such as "For Sale" or "Services".
4. For most, leave the "automatically add new pages when they are published.
5. As you develop more pages, you can come to this gadget and order the pages, using drag and drop.
6. Notice the TIP, you can use Pages as a Navigational Bar (like the Nav Bar in Typepad). GREAT tip!!!
7. Click Save.
8. Keep in the side, or drag at the top under your banner. Click Save.
To Add New Pages
1. From the Dashboard, go to Posts or Edit Posts. Then you will see "Edit Pages".
2. Click "Edit Pages" and there you can create a new page.
3. You can add up to 10 (TEN) Pages!!!
4. Click on NEW PAGE and then create a page just as you would a post.
5. Publish/post options at the bottom.
6. When ready, Publish and you are on your way!!!!
I'm so excited to share this news!!!
Happy blogging!
I’m so confused, LOL. What does this mean for me, the lowly blogger?! 🙂
For example, take this blog, a typepad blog and look at the list of services on the upper left. These are called “pages”, separate from “posts”. To accomplish this type of function in Blogger, what you would have to do is create a separate or multiple Blogger blogs that “looked” alike (same design and overall layout). So you’d have to maintain 2 or more blogs like
blogsbyheather.blogspot.com
blogsbyheather-services.blogspot.com
or
blogsbyheather.blogspot.com
blogsbyheather-blogsetup.blogspot.com
blogsbyheather-blogtranser.blogspot.com
blogsbyheather-blogmaintenance.blogspot.com
blogsbyheather-newsletterdesign.blogspot.com
and so on.
It is just a wonderful tool.
If you tell me a little bit more about your business, if you are or are not a SU demonstrator, I can try and help you and explain using an example in your line of work.
If you cannot “drag” it to the top, then use this code to allow more “gadgets” at the top:
• Login to Blogger.
• From the Dashboard, click on Layout.
• Go to the Edit HTML tab.
• Scroll thru the HTML code, towards the bottom, looking for the HEADER WRAPPER code:
• Where you should enter a 2 or greater for maxwidgets….I used 2.
• Then change ‘no’ to ‘yes’ for showaddelement.
• Then click SAVE TEMPLATE button.
oh wow that’s so awesome..i’m super excited..been waiting for the day when they’d add this feature..thanks for the heads up
Heather,
This is fabulous can’t wait tp try it.
Hallelujah! It’s about time!!
I am confused as well..
What this means is you can now have something like I have here in my Typepad blog. Look in the upper left area of my sidebar, it says “Pages”. If you click on them, each of these “pages” contain information about each of the services I offer, some include paypal buttons as well. These “pages” are separate from the “posts” you see in the main column here.
For Blogger users now, you can have a separate “pages” area now where you can also setup a page for each service you may offer, setup up page to describe different Clubs you have or Ribbon/Products shares, as well as setup a page for Tutorials or Card Kits you may sell. This way you can have them all in one spot, on page, instead of spread over many posts.
For example, look at my Blog Store Setup page (https://www.blogsbyheather.com/new-blog-store-setup.html). NOtice the very different ways of setting up with Typepad vs. Blogger. NOW, BLOGGER is JUST LIKE Typepad in this way (and I have to soon update my page to reflect the new feature in Blogger). But before I do….go check it out so you can see the differences and how hard it used to be in Blogger to setup a store, where now it is as easy as it is for Typepad users.
Contact me again if you have more questions 😀
Heather, can we add meta data to our blogger pages?
I haven’t tested this yet, but you may able to if you switch to Edit HTML while in the Page creation window. Switch over to HTML and add the META tag HTML there, then switch back and continue your page.
This is great!! Thanks so much for sharing this. I was just about to consider moving my blog because I wanted the page option and now I don’t have to! Thanks.
Thank you for relaying the news and telling us how to activate it. I truly appreciate your help!
Cool!! I’m gonna try it!! tfs!=)
Heather, I have set up a new page, but how do you post on that page.? Does everything have to be on one post? If not then how do you have multiple posts on the new pages? Every time I try to post to it it goes on my main page. It is probably easy, I just have not figured it out yet. Thanks for any help:)
Hi Ashley!
You are correct. Basically Pages and Posts are not the same thing. Posts show up in your main blog area and your subscribers get notified when you post. Pages are normally use for sharing information with your customers about you, services you offer, Clubs you are running, or to create a store page (for selling items with paypal buttons) for example. You can have a lot of information on a page, but it isn’t posting.
When you add pages, you can choose to have the Pages show in your nav bar area or in your sidebar (or not at all where I would not advise this option to start with).
Let me know if you still have trouble.
heather 😀
Is there a way to add posts to my 2nd page? I have a 2nd page for SU happenings and I wanted to add some posts into there. Is there an easy way to do this?
HELP! Thank you!
Hi Kelli!
You can (in a way). Go to Edit Posts, then Edit Pages, and then open the desired page for editing. Then, scroll to the bottom of the page, and then insert a picture and/or write additional text at the bottom, then Publish.
Or, you can create a new page and then from the SU Happenings page, link to the new page for more information. Make sense?