JUL29
Hacks are workarounds to find solutions to some problems/limitations that might arise. These are some of the most wanted hacks that I came across:
- How to add an element after or before Blogger header or blog posts:link
- Adding a Search Box : link
- How to add a simple horizontal navigation bar: link
- Enabling smileys to comments: link
- Add Recent Posts manually: Go to Layout--->Page elements--->add gadget: Add the Feed gadget (see below):
Next, you will see this, with an empty text box:
Write http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default . Of course, you need to change yourblog with your own name. Click continue: You will see this now: 
Change the title to: Latest posts or something similar. Choose the number of posts/items you want to show and whether you want to include the publishing dates of the posts and the author. Click save and voila! - Add a Recent Comments manually: the process is exactly the same as the one above (hack 5) the only change is to write:http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default instead of http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default. That is it!
- Adding Contents or categories section to your blog like this one:
The first step is to start by adding labels to your posts (in this case I labeled some posts ebooks, others tutorials, etc..). See image below:
Then, from the Page elements, you choose Add a Gadget. And click on the labels gadget (image below):
You will get this: All you need to do is change the title to something 
like “contents”, “categories”, etc.. And here you go! - When you add A contents section (hack 7), whenever you choose click on a category ( let us say “ebooks” in my example), you will see this annoying message:
This is a link with instructions on how to remove it.
That is it for the most wanted hacks.
Next post: My blog is ready: what now?
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