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How to Show Blogger Featured Post Only on Homepage
Do you want to show Featured Post only on the homepage of your Blogger blog? You’re in the right place.
In this tutorial, I guide you step-by-step on how to show Featured Post only on the homepage of your Blogger blog.
Featured Post is used to show the Latest Post or a Specific Post of your choice with large Thumbnail & Title, to make the post prominent from rest of the posts. On some of the Blogger themes the Featured Post also appears on item page, below the comments section. Sometimes it becomes unnecessary to show Featured Post on the item page and also, it can increase the page load time on slow internet speeds.
Show Blogger Featured Post Only on Homepage
Follow the steps to show Blogger Featured Post only on the homepage.
- Click Theme from the Sidebar.
- Click the Downward icon located beside the CUSTOMIZE button.
- Click the Edit HTML link.
- Click the Jump to widget icon.
- Click the FeaturedPost1 widget.
- It will let you to the code of Featured Post, as shown in the next step.
The code of the Featured Post starts from the line:
<b:widget cond='data:view.isHomepage' id='FeaturedPost1' locked='true' title='' type='FeaturedPost' version='2' visible='true'>- Go to the line <b:includable id=‘main’ var=‘this’>.
- Copy the If Condition and Paste below the above line.
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>- Close the If Condition by putting </b:if> below the </div> before </b:includable>.
</b:if>
- Click the Save icon to update the changes, located at top-right corner.
- Go back to your blog and refresh. Open your pages to check whether Featured Post is visible or not.
That’s it. You’re done. If you like this post then don’t forget to share with people. Share your feedback in the comments section below.
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Ramesh
May 20, 2020 at 12:43 pm
Nice Tutorial, Any Idea to get diffrent design. Pls wriite a post on that topic,
Meer Basit
May 21, 2020 at 5:07 am
Thanks Ramesh. What do you mean by different design? Featured Post Design?
Shaunak
June 4, 2020 at 12:09 pm
*Hi. the featured post got removed even from the homepage after using the code*
Meer Basit
June 5, 2020 at 5:09 am
You must have done some mistake Shaunak. Please check your code again.
Sharon Waugh
June 17, 2020 at 1:29 pm
I have triple checked it and it looks exactly as yours in the example but I am getting this error message:
The widget settings in widget with id AdSense1 is not valid. An internal error occurred. Please try again.
Sharon Waugh
June 17, 2020 at 2:49 pm
I'm not sure if it's relevant but I am using the 'Essential' theme.
Meer Basit
June 18, 2020 at 5:10 am
Here is the solution Sharon: The Widget Settings In Widget With Id AdSense Is Not Valid. An internal error occurred. Please try again(https://www.meersworld.net/2020/06/an-internal-error-occurred-please-try-again.html) … This error comes because of AdSense widgets in your theme. Remove all the AdSense widgets from your Blogger Layout, you will get rid of this error. Go to your theme add the condition on Featured Post. Once you are done with editing you theme, Save the theme. Now add your AdSense widgets from Layout. I have explained thoroughly in the article.
Sharon Waugh
July 1, 2020 at 1:48 pm
Thanks for your reply, but the Adsense widgets in my theme (Essential) don't seem to be optional. They are already not visible on my blog but I can't find a way to delete them from the layout. Am I missing something?
Meer Basit
July 2, 2020 at 5:11 am
You’re welcome Sharon. Ok I got your problem. Your AdSense widgets are by default locked. Go to your theme and unlock your AdSense widgets. Go back to your Layout, open the AdSense widgets, you will see a Remove Option . Click Remove.
Follow this tutorial: **** https://www.meersworld.net/2020/02/how-to-unlock-gadgets-on-blogger.html **** . Hope your problem will be solved. If you need further help do tell us.
Sharon Waugh
July 6, 2020 at 8:25 pm
That worked. Thanks so much.
Sandeep
August 9, 2020 at 9:14 am
thanks for sharing this wonderful post. Recently i started my new blogging website on blogger. its really helped me. thank you
Meer Basit
August 10, 2020 at 5:13 am
You’re most welcome Sandeep.
Liz⎪Bunico Director
August 18, 2020 at 8:18 am
Hi! This no longer works because blogger updated its HTML code. Is there possibly another way to solve this problem? I can't find anything other than this
Thank you so much 🙂
Meer Basit
August 19, 2020 at 5:14 am
No, it is compatible with the new version as well. When any software is updated developers make sure that new version must be compatible with older versions. You must be making some mistake. You can find more about conditional tags Here: https://www.meersworld.net/2020/02/how-to-insert-conditional-tags-on-blogger.html
VedantA
September 6, 2020 at 6:29 am
hey,thanks,it helped me a lot. But I have a small problem. After I made the changes as you suggested,the featured blog widget only appears on the home page,but on other pages,you can still see the black rectangular box where the features post widget once was. Please help.
My Blogspot: https://introverseinfinite.blogspot.com
Meer Basit
September 7, 2020 at 5:15 am
It is because of the CSS which is still applying style via ” #page_body .FeaturedPost, .Blog .blog-posts .post-outer-container”
To Remove this styling and hide that box . Add this CSS code on your CSS File.
#FeaturedPost1
{
display: none !important;
}
VedantA
September 7, 2020 at 4:04 am
hey,thanks for the reply. But seems like this code is completely removing the Featured post widget. Do I have to add the code to the Add CSS option in Theme Designer or do I have to manually add it in the HTML code
Meer Basit
September 8, 2020 at 5:16 am
Welcome. Yes, add this code to your “Add CSS” option.
MEDICAL ERA
October 27, 2020 at 9:12 am
This for this helpful post. How can i increase speed of my blog? Please help
Meer Basit
October 28, 2020 at 5:17 am
Come On! Your blog is extremely fast. Why do you think your blog is slow?
Chris
February 20, 2021 at 2:44 pm
thanks alot. it 100% worked
Meer Basit
February 21, 2021 at 5:18 am
You’re most welcome Chris.
Nat
August 13, 2021 at 7:28 pm
Hi! Thanks but it didn’t work, could you tell me what I should do? Message is:
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 3575; columnNumber: 36; Open quote is expected for attribute “cond” associated with an element type “b:if”.
Nat
August 13, 2021 at 7:38 pm
I just did this and it worked:
Meer Basit
August 14, 2021 at 5:19 am
OK!Good Luck.