Editing published posts in Blogger

This article describes how to edit a post that has already been published in Blogger, using the new interface.

Where has the Edit Posts link gone?

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Blogger's modern user-interface (UI) was introduced in September 2011.   ("Interface" is truly a long word representing the part of Blogger to facilitate you consume to look after things.)

The modern look has organised things in a a little discrete way to the big (ie pre-September 2011) version of Blogger, and a quantity of functions are a little harder to discovery.

The Edit Posts link has been replaced by a roll presentation you all posts, and Edit relatives under apiece pole in this roll. These are the tools you need to consume to revolution a pole as soon as it's already been available, representing illustration to set-up spelling errors, or add modern in sequence.

How to revolution a pole to facilitate is already available:

Log in to blogger next to http://www.Blogger.Com, using the Google report to facilitate wrote the pole, or solitary to facilitate is an administrator representing the blog

If you made the blog, followed by you are without human intervention the administrator representing it to start with - so truly consume your customary Blogger report.

You can promptly distinguish the Blogger Dashboard. If you are using the modern interface it looks like this:

The section in the middle lists all the blogs that your account has access to.
Most people reading this article will only have one blog - at the moment - but it's worth understanding how extra ones look.


Each blog has one line in this section.   In the middle of the screen, beside the blog name, there are four icons (small pictures):

• A pencil (for write a new post)
• A stack of "papers" (for viewing your existing posts), which is right next to a drop-down arrow (for getting to the other blog -options)
• A button labelled "View Blog" (no prizes for guessing what it does!)   

Click on the stack of papers:  this opens a list of all your posts.

In the list, hover your mouse over the title of the post you want to edit.    The link will highlight (slightly) and you will see some links under the post-title. The links are

• Edit
• View  
• Share (this one only shows up if you've linked Google+ and the blog)
• Delete.

Click Edit:  this takes you to the post editor. Make the changes you want, Press the Update button at the top of the screen to save them. Job Done!


The quickedit pencil - a fast alternative

Depending on how your Post Template is usual up, you may well distinguish a Quick Edit Pencil icon what time you are recital a pole.   If it is crooked on, it will be either under the post-title, or next to the foundation of the pole exceeding or under the contents. Clicking this icon takes you quickly to the post-editor.

You will single distinguish the icon if it's crooked on representing your blog (in Layout > Blog Posts, edit), and if you are logged in to Blogger using an report to facilitate is tolerable to revolution the posts.

Your readers will not at all distinguish it.

 Saving changes while you edit the pole:

 Because you are working on a pole to facilitate is already available, the "autosave" trait will not handiwork. So if you are departing to nominate a lot in life of changes, you may well would like to ape the pole to a undisclosed or test blog.   There you can print the pole (ie save it properly) as often as you would like, and rejection solitary will distinguish the messy in-between-old-and-new stages.

 When you are finished, click the Publish button (near the top-centre of the screen)

What your readers distinguish

Until you click Publish, the pole to facilitate your readers distinguish is the same as it originally was - rejection stuff come again? Changes you own made in the pole editor.

If at hand is a pole to facilitate you urgently need to "take down", followed by click the Revert to plan button (at the top of the screen, then to publish).   This makes the pole unavailable until you then click print:   In the meantime, everybody who tries to distinguish it using a link will distinguish this message:

Page not found Sorry, the page you were looking for in the blog YOUR BLOG TITLE does not exist.

Making changes to a post that you didn't write

Some fill with would like to edit blog-posts to facilitate they were not the author of,  and which they look after not own administrator access to.

The terse answer is to facilitate you are not able to look after this - you need to ask the post-author or blog-administrator look after it representing you.

However if the blog-post has copyright material, at hand may well be a quantity of trial you can take.   And if you believe it breaks's Blogger's rules, you can inform a stipulations of service violation.