Create Blogger Make a Menu Bar That Categorizes Posts
One of the biggest problems with
Blogspot is the menu bar. In WordPress, you can easily and quickly
create drop down menus. In order to make that work in Blogger, you need
to modify your code. However, not all is lost. Maybe you can’t have drop
down menus without a lot of headache, but you can have categories at
the top of your menu bar. You can use your labels as categories. Let’s
say for example you write about food, marriage, and fashion. When
someone comes to your site, they may only want to browse through the
marriage posts. By creating a menu tab with the word marriage, blogger
will pull up only those posts. Typically a menu bar is only comprised of
static pages or outbound links. However, using a simple formula, you
can create your labels to work as menu bar items!
If you haven’t created labels yet, you
should. Labels are like extra keywords that attach to your post, but if
you want to use the labels to help categorize your posts, pick about
five or six labels and always use the same label when you are adding it
to a post.
Once all your posts are labeled, here’s how to make the menu bar.
1. Login to your Blogspot dashboard.
2. Go to layout.
3. Click on your menu bar widget (it’s probably labeled pages) to open it up.
4. Go to the bottom where it says ADD LINK PAGE.
5. Type in the title as you want it to appear (in our example, type the word wordpress).
6. Now you need to type in a URL. http://www.[your blog name].com/search/label/[your label]
7. Hit save.
You are all set! Any blog post that uses that label will be pulled up like a filtered archive (listed according to date).
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