Pages come to Blogger In Draft

by Sean McCullough, Software Engineer


Update (1/21 @ 8:54am PST): We've temporarily disabled creating & editing pages. You can still view the pages you've already created. We will re-enable ability to create and edit pages soon.


Update (1/21 @ 9:32pm PST): Pages are back on.

Pages have been a top requested feature, and they are now available on Blogger in Draft!

Blogger Pages lets you to publish static information on stand-alone pages linked from your blog. For example, you can use Pages to create an About This Blog page that discusses the evolution of your blog, or a Contact Me page that provides directions, a phone number, and a map to your location.

You create a page similar to how you write a blog post. From Blogger in Draft click the Posting | Edit Pages tab, then click New Page. (Note: you can create up to 10 pages.)

Once your page is published, you can link to it from the new Pages widget. The Pages widget lets you add links to your pages as tabs at the top of your blog, or as links in your blog's sidebar.

In the Pages widget, you can decide which pages will have links, and in what order they will appear. You can also choose whether or not you want links automatically created for pages when you create them by checking or unchecking the box to the left of Add new Pages by default.

Finally, for those of you that have custom templates, your custom template may not automatically support Pages as horizontal "tabs". If you are familiar with HTML, follow these instructions on how to add Pages to your custom template.

Let us know how it goes in the comments!