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How To Change Post Order

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Change the order of your “Posts” in Beta Blogger

Posts are ordered according to latest posted first on page. Hence the newest posts are first with earlier posts lower down in the order.

Your blog consist of a Main Page and Post Pages. The Main Page contains the number of posts you have set in Settings > Formatting > Show Posts on Main Page. The rest of the posts are shown as links in the Blog Archive widget in the sidebar. The posts on the Main Page also have their links in the Blog Archive widget. Each Post Page contains only one post.

To change this order login to Dashboard. Click on Posts link after 'Manage' under the name of your blog. You will see a list of all your posts with links to Edit, View or Delete them. Click on Edit link of the post you want to change the date.



The Posts Editor opens with its two modes: Edit HTML and Compose. The second mode is present only if you have enabled it in Settings as described in Set Settings. The bottom frame of the Posts Editor contains a link 'Post Options'. Click on it to expand the frame as shown in the image. In the expanded frame you can change the Posts Date and time.


STICKY POST AT THE TOP

If you want this post to be the first post always in your blog then set the date to any time as far in the future as it will allow it to be set. This is because once that day arrives and you post more posts this post will start migrating downwards like the rest. Till then it will remain a "sticky" post at the top of your blog.

This is frequently used by bloggers who wish to post a book with chapters and all in their blog and want the first post to be a "Table of Contents". To see an example see here. Also you should have Post Pages enabled by going to Settings > Archiving.


HIDE POSTS

If you have made a post like a 'Privacy Policy' post which you do not want to show on the Main Page backdate it. Then it will appear as a link in the Blog Archive widget.

(If you have any question, click the HELP tab)
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How to Back Up Your Blogger Blog

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Do you know how to back up your Blogger blog? There can be nothing worse than to login to Blogger one day and find you blogger blog gone, corrupted or deleted forever due to any unforseen error. Back up is very important. Here are a few simple ways to keep your Blogger blog safe and backed up.


Back up Blogger Posts:
  • Backup Your Posts – Bloggers Blogsend allows each of my blog posts to be automatically sent to my email address. So I have a back up of all my posts as individual emails. You can further create folders in your email account (as in Yahoo Mail) or apply labels (in Gmail), and create filters such that such emails can be collected in one place.
  • Back up your entire blogger blog – Bloggers provides detailed instructions to create a single file with all your posts which you may publish and then copy to your own computer for use as desired. Remember to save a copy of your existing template in a file on your computer as you will need to have it at hand after this process is completed. This is good for a one time backup, but is cumbersome to do if you back up very frequently. Also you might mess up some setting and disbale your blog is not done right.
  • Try third party back up tools – like the HTTrack Web site copier for Windows users and Webgrabber for Mac users. Each of these applications will create a fully working, interlinked local copy of your blog for browsing offline and easily allow you to back up. Remember it will take considerable time and internet bandwidth if you have a huge blog.
Back up Blog Template:
  • Back up the template whenever you change it. Just copy and paste the entire template code into any simple text editor like Notepad or Wordpad and save file with name like ‘myblog-date.txt’. After a while you will have a series of such files organized by date. If for some reason your blog goes away, just copy and paste the teplate back into Blogger and republish.

Back Up Blog Comments:
  • Blogger has an option to send you an email when someone leaves a comment on your blog. This is located in Setting > Comments option in Blogger. This enables you to collect all your comments as individual emails, much like the blogsend posts emails mentioned above. Then you can file them all together as labels or in a email folder.
  • If you moderate comments, you can get all your comments as emails pending your approval. This email address can again be entered in Setting > Comments. If you do not want to save rejected comments as emails and recieve only published comments – then you can keep the comment moderation email address blank, while filling up the Comment Notification Address.
  • If you use Haloscan Comments instead, then anyway your Blogger comments are off and Haloscan is keeping track of backing up your comments. I am using Blogger comments featured now with comment moderation, word verification captchas to combat comment spam.
Make blog back ups a habit and you will remember this post when it saves your blog on a bad day!
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