Do you want to add gadget somewhere on your blog but you can’t find “add a gadget”? Good news! You can create “add a gadget” anywhere on your blog after reading this post.
Definitely, there are some places that are obviously difficult to add a gadget on blogger.
The secret is from your blog’s HTML codes. Except for coders, you may go through your blog’s HTML codes more and more without finding where the issue is.
Therefore, this simple tutorial will guide you on “how to add a gadget on blogger.”
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However if the place you want to add a gadget in your blog has the “add a gadget” option then you can simply go to your Blogger layout and add your gadget. In that case follow these simple steps:
How to add a gadget in Blogger
Step 1.Go to Blogger.com and signing to the blog you want to add a gadget
Step 2.Navigate to “Layout” tag from the side bar
Step 3.Click the “add a gadget”
Step 4.Select your needed gadget by clicking it
Step 5.Configure your gadget’s settings
Step 6.Save
But if you can’t find the “add a gadget” in the place you want, you can create it by going to:
How to add a Gadget where there is no “add a gadget”
Step 1. Go to Blogger.com and signing to the blog you want to add a gadget
Step 2.Navigate to “theme” tag
Step 3.Go to “Edit HTML”
Step 4.Go to the section you want to add a gadget
Step 5.Edit the HTML codes
Step 6.Then “save”
Not sure how to do that? Let’s keep going.
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Step 1. Go to Blogger.com and signing to the blog you want to add a gadget
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Signing to blogger and choose the blog you want to add a gadget.
Go to the “layout” and choose where you want to add a gadget.
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On this case I want to add a gadget on the header. But as you can see, there is no “add a gadget” there.
So let’s create one
Step 2.Navigate to “theme” tag
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Navigate to “theme” tag
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In the theme section, click the arrow beside “CUSTOMIZE”
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A new window will pop up with a list.
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Step 3.Go to “Edit HTML”
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Select edit HTML and the HTML codes of your blog will appear. Like this:
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Step 4.Go to the section you want to add a gadget
You can use ctrl-F to find the section you want to add a gadget or Click the shortcut symbol at the top of the HTML codes.
The list of all your blog’s sections will pop up like this.
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In my case I select “Header1”
The header’s codes will appear like the screenshot below.
Step 5.Edit the HTML codes
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Let’s explain the steps on the picture above.
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In the HTML codes you will see: (locked= “true”) edit it to (locked= “false”) the brackets are not included.
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Edit (maxwidgets= “1”) to (maxwidgets= “2”) the brackets are not included.
You can edit the maxwidgets number to any number, depending on the number of gadgets you want to add in the section.
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Edit (showaddelement= ‘no’) to (showaddelement= ‘yes”) brackets are not included.
Preview your changes before saving it to make sure that you didn’t remove or add anything else where in the codes.
If the preview was successful save the changes.
Step 6.Then “save”
Now we can go back to our layout and see the changes we make.
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You can now add the gadget you want. If you don’t know how to add a gadget follow the above steps on how to add a gadget where there is add a gadget in your layout.
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Conclusion
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If you are not familiar with editing HTML codes make sure to download your blog before starting to edit the HTML codes.
You can do that by clicking backup on the theme section like this
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I hope you can now follow the above lesson to create more add a gadget on you blogger blog.
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