Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Choose the content to display on the different page types in Blogger

It is important to know the exact scope of Blogger page types in order to be able to place different content on selected page types. Following page types exist at Blogger currently:

1. Home page
2. Archive Page
3. Item Page = Post pages
4. Index Page = home page, label page, search page
5. Static Page = Blogger Pages (relatively new in Blogger)

The code would look like this:

a) for include cases (include content by replacing the "content here" text below in case you want to see them appear when the specified page type IS being viewed):
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b) for exclude cases (include content by replacing the "content here" text below in case you want to see them appear when the specified page type IS NOT being viewed - all other pagetypes BUT the specified one):
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Notice the only difference between the two is the double equal sign (==) in case of includes and the exclamation mark and single equal sign in case of excludes. The [PageTypeID] part will be replaced by the above listed page type according to your needs: archive, item, index, static_page.

In case of the home page the code is slightly different:
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If you want to know more about this and see some additional tricks, you may want to check out the blog post called Selective Display of Blogger Widgets on homepage, archive,post page, or particular pages.

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