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. I found a new way to make a menu in your blog using your labels and the post which you want to come under that label will come under that menu you want to.
Let me explain it through a example you have a tech blog and you want to add pages like mobiles, gadgets, laptops, softwares etc. When someone comes to your site, they may only want to browse through the softwares posts. By creating a menu tab with the word softwares, 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.
2. Go to pages.
3. Click on Create New Page.
4. Choose Web Address when the drop down menu bar comes up.
5. Type in the title as you want it to appear (in our example, type the word softwares).
6. Now you need to type in a URL.
http://www.[your blog name].com/search/label/[your label]
7. Hit save.
8. Just make sure on your pages page, the option is checked off to show…
“show pages as top tabs”
you have done it now all the softwares related post will shown when someone clicks over the softwares tab in the menu bar (listed according to date).
See? Wasn’t that easy? now forget the copy pasting work to create menu which creates problem everytime you add a new page.
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. I found a new way to make a menu in your blog using your labels and the post which you want to come under that label will come under that menu you want to.
Let me explain it through a example you have a tech blog and you want to add pages like mobiles, gadgets, laptops, softwares etc. When someone comes to your site, they may only want to browse through the softwares posts. By creating a menu tab with the word softwares, 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.
Steps to follow
1. Login to your Blogspot dashboard.2. Go to pages.
3. Click on Create New Page.
4. Choose Web Address when the drop down menu bar comes up.
5. Type in the title as you want it to appear (in our example, type the word softwares).
6. Now you need to type in a URL.
http://www.[your blog name].com/search/label/[your label]
7. Hit save.
8. Just make sure on your pages page, the option is checked off to show…
“show pages as top tabs”
you have done it now all the softwares related post will shown when someone clicks over the softwares tab in the menu bar (listed according to date).
See? Wasn’t that easy? now forget the copy pasting work to create menu which creates problem everytime you add a new page.
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