Quick Edit Crossed Tools

It's too bad that new Bloggers cannot more readily see what the "crossest tools" (screwdriver and wrench) are for. They are convenient Quick Edit tools, visible only to you and only when you are logged in to that blog. Neither these nor the Quick-Edit pencil icon under each post can be seen or used by others. We all worried about someone else being able to edit our posts or page elements for a few minutes when they were first introduced, so you're not alone if you panicked! But forget it now and you'll soon enough find something serious to worry about in Blogger! It's full of real bugs and glitches.

People Can't See My Profile?

Maybe it's not activated.
Go back to your Dashboard. On the far left, click on Edit Profile (to the right of your photo). Make sure you've clicked "Share my profile". At bottom of page, click "Save Profile".

Dashboard Example

These are some old instructions and I'll update it when I feel like it. The screen has changed. Sorry.

Above screenshot shows several blogs on the left, the Edit Profile section on the right, and the Language drop-down menu below that.

Edit Profile, to state the obvious, is where you go to paste the url for your Profile Photo.

Manage Posts -- Screenshot

AKA "EDIT POSTS", depending on which menu you follow to get to this screen.

DELETE or PUBLISH multiple posts!
Not shown, but at the bottom of the above page, there's buttons to click for "Publish Selected" or "Delete Selected". If you click on each of the boxes in front of the posts you'd like to delete or publish all at once, then you can click those Selection buttons. This is the only place you can delete multiple posts at once!

Compose Mode Or Edit Html Mode?

Does your Blogger editing screen look "odd" or wrong?

Is it possible that your screen mode toggled from one to another, either Edit Html or Compose modes? That sometimes happens and people who have never selected the OTHER mode can't recognize what they're seeing. If so, the Blogger edit box has the two choices beside each other in the upper right corner (see screen shot below).

In Compose you can see the photos. You can relocate the image by dragging and dropping it. In Edit Html you will see the code for the photos and will have to use Preview (or switch to the Compose mode) to see images. You can move it by using Cut and Paste on the code.

Is your "Compose Mode" turned on?
1. First go to Dashboard 2. Go to Manage: Settings. 3. Scroll down the page 4. look for "Show Compose Mode for all your blogs?" 5. Activate it by answering Yes. Be sure to click on the big orange Save Settings a little bit further toward the bottom of the page.

Edit The Template

How to edit or add to the template
Old Blogger; 1. From the Dashboard, click on Template. New Blogger: 1. From the Dashboard, click on Layout. OR 1. From the Navbar, click on Customize. 2. Then click on Edit HTML to edit the template. Now you have to know what you're doing. If you are in New Blogger, you may wish to place the code in a page element instead.

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How To Add or Edit A Post

For the beginner: 1. Go to your Dashboard. 2. Make sure you're logged in. 3. If not yet done, go to Edit Profile. 4. Answer most of their questions. 5. Some you just leave blank. 6. Click the name of your blog. 7. Edit Posts will come up as a list. 8. Click on the word Edit of the post to be revised. 9. Or click on New Post. New (Layout) Blogger 1. Go to Dashboard. 2. Click on New Post. To edit a post or draft: 1. Go to Dashboard 2. Click Manage Posts 3. Locate post/draft 4. Click Edit. There are times when you can see the Posting tab in the upper left corner of various screens. To go quickly to an editing mode, you can 1. Click Posting. 2. Click Edit Posts. 3. You'll see the same Edit Posts or Manage Posts screen that you arrive at from the Dashboard. If you are logged in to your blog and intend to edit a post, you will be able to see the Pencil icon. (This assumes that you have turned it on in basic Settings by answering "Yes" to "Show Quick Editing on your Blog?") Click on that Pencil below the post and you will be able to go to the Edit Post box directly from the screen. No one else can access your icon since they are not logged in to your Google/Blogger account.

How To See The Template

And Edit The Template

Go to your Dashboard. Make sure you're logged in. Click on your blog name. "Template" should appear up above. Click on the word Template. Now you see it. Is it complete? Or Truncated? It should be quite long and should end in most cases with </html> If it's short or ends in the middle of a line, that's probably wrong. If you find damage in the template, see this post, Recover Your Template. If the template looks all right, you can proceed to edit it in the Blogger Post Editor. Good luck!