How to Use Blogger Post Editor | Blogger.com
Complete information about Blogger Post Editor
In this tutorial, we will give you complete information about Blogger Post Editor. You will know what is Blogger Post Editor? What is the use of each of the tools available in Blogger Post Editor? And how many types of editor are there in Post Editor?
Topics
- Blogger Post Editor Introduction
- Information about the names and uses of tools available in Blogger Post Editor
- Blogger Compose Mode Editor
- Blogger HTML Mode Editor
- what have you learned?
What is Blogger Post Editor
Blogger provides a built in editor to the users to publish the post on the blog. With the help of which New Post is created and published.
Blogger Post Editor works like other normal word processing software. And it also provides HTML editor a step ahead of them. That’s why Blogger users get the facility of two editors in the same editor.
Blogger Editor has many tools related to Post Formatting, Post Editing, Post Customizing etc. And using them is also easy.
Names and Uses of Tools Available in Blogger Post Editor
Like all other CMS, Blogger also provides Post Editor to its users. So that they can manage their blog posts. Blogger Post Editor is quite simple and its interface is also User Friendly. And all the necessary tools are available to the users at one place. Which you can easily see in the photo below.
1 Blog Name – The blogger blog you are currently working on. This is the name of that blog.
2 Post Title Box – Post Title i.e. Heading is written in this box.
3 User Name – The Google account you have used for Blogger.com. The name of that account appears here. On changing the name in Google account, the name also changes here.
4 Publish Button – When the post is ready, the post is published by clicking on this button. And as soon as it is published, the post becomes available to the readers.
5 Save Button – If you want to save the post by writing it and publish it later, then the post can be saved by the save button. And later you can publish the saved post at any time.
6 Preview Button – By this button you can see yourself before publishing the post written by you. and can improve it.
7 Close Button – When your post writing work is over, the editor can be closed by the Close Button.
8 Compose Mode – This is a simple editing mode. In this you have the facility of any Word Editor.
9 HTML Mode – HTML Editor is started with this button. And you can write the post through HTML Coding. And can do some additional formatting.
10 Text Style – This button is available in the Compose Mode Editor. Through these you can make the text Bold, Italic and Strikethrough.
11 Add Link – If you want to add a link in the middle of the post, then you can add a link through this button.
12 Insert Image – Images are added to the post by this button.
13 Add Quotation – By this button you can add Quotation Mark to the selected text.
14 Text Box – Here post text is written.
15 Post Text – This is post text. Which can be anything according to you. It can contain only text. Or it can also be Images, Videos.
16 Post Settings – Here some additional options related to Post Settings are available. Which you can use while writing the post.
Complete information about Blogger Compose Mode Editor
When you come to the editor to write a new post, you get two options. First Compose and second HTML. The first editor called Compose Mode Editor works like a simple Text Editor.
Just as you work in Text Editor, in the same way work is done here too. You can do Basic Text Formatting like Bold, Italic and Strikethrough without any code. And if you want to create HTML Link. You can also make them easily with just one click. Apart from this, you can also insert Image in the post.
Compose Mode Editor is very suitable for getting started. As you go on learning blogging. You can use Blogger’s Advance Editor i.e. HTML Editor. In which you can do formatting according to your convenience and demand.
In Compose Mode Editor, the following tools are available to you to use.
1- Redo & Undo
You must be familiar with this tool because you must be using it daily. Both these tools are used to repeat and erase the previous actions. Undo brings back the previous task and Redo brings back the current task.
2- Font Options
With this tool, you can change the font style of the post content. Here you get the facility to change the font, font size and type of text. In this you are provided with three tools.
Font – You can change the font of the text through Font.
Font Size – By this you can change the font size. Here you get these sizes Smallest, Small, Normal, Large, Largest.
Format – You can change the type of text through Font Formatter. And it can be changed to Heading, Sub-Heading, Minor Heading, Normal etc.
3- Formatting
These three tools are related to Text Formatting. By which you can make the text Bold, Italic and Strikethrough.
Bold – Text is made bold by B.
Italic – Text is italicized by I.
Underline – U By this you can make the text Underlined.
Strikethrough – Line can be drawn in the middle of the text by this tool.
4- Text Colors
If you want to change the text color then you can do it from here. You can change both Text Color and Text Background Color.
5- Insert Options
This tool is very important. Because with the help of other tools present in this tool, you can make the post more useful and effective. In this you get the following tools.
Link – Through this you can convert text into HTML link. And you can add your post to this post.
Image – If you want to add a picture to the post, then you can do so by Insert Image.
Video – You can add videos to the post by Insert Video.
Symbols – Through this you can write Special Characters and Emojis in blog posts.
Page Break – If you want to show your post in pieces, then you can use Page Break for this.
6- More Formatting Options
Here some additional options related to Text Formatting are provided. which is the following.
Text Alignment – Text Alignment is set by this tool. Through this you can Align Left, Center, Right and Justify.
Number List – Through this you can create Number List in the post.
Bullet List – Through this you can create Bullet List.
Quote – Through this you can quote the text.
Clear Formatting – You can remove all the formatting applied by this tool at once.
7- Grammar & Language
With this tool you can correct your grammar mistakes. And can write in other languages also. In this you are provided with the following tools.
Spelling – By this tool you can check Text Spelling and can also correct them.
Language – With this tool you can write your text in other languages.
Language Selector – Through this you can select the language.
8- Paragraph Options
From here you can decide the direction of the words written in the post. You can write the words from Left to Right and Right to Left side.
Complete information about Blogger HTML Editor
HTML Editor can be useful for you only if you have knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript etc. If you do not have knowledge of these languages, then you cannot use this editor.
Because you will have to use HTML Tags to write the post. And you can use them only if you have a little knowledge of HTML language. That’s why this editor is mostly useful for Advance Users.
Through HTML Editor, you can make the post more impressive and add many things. You can also add external things like iframe, Youtube Videos, Tweets, etc. to the post.
The following tools are available for you to use in HTML Editor. Very few tools are available for formatting in HTML Editor. Because for formatting in HTML Editor, we have to use languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript etc.
1 Text Style – For Text Style, you are provided with tools for Bold, Italic and Strikethrough Style here. You can use only these three styles on your post text.
2 Insert – Link, Image and Quote tools are available to you to insert in the post. Through these you can insert HTML Link, Image and Quotation.
What have you learned?
In this Lesson, we have given you complete information about User Post Editor of Blogger.com. You know what is Post Editor? And what is the name and use of all the tools available in Blogger Post Editor? We hope that this lesson will prove useful for you.