One of the biggest
problems with Blogspot is the menu bar. In WordPress, you can easily and
quickly create drop down menus. In order to make that work in Blogger, you need
to modify your code. However, not all is lost. Maybe you can’t have drop down
menus without a lot of headache, but you can have categories at the top of your
menu bar. You can use your labels as categories. Let’s say for example you
write about food, marriage, and fashion. When someone comes to your site, they
may only want to browse through the marriage posts. By creating a menu tab with
the word marriage, blogger will pull up only those posts. Typically a menu bar
is only comprised of static pages or outbound links. However, using a simple
formula, you can create your labels to work as menu bar items!
If you haven’t
created labels yet, you should. Labels are like extra keywords that attach to
your post, but if you want to use the labels to help categorize your posts,
pick about five or six labels and always use the same label when you are adding
it to a post.
Once
all your posts are labeled, here’s how to make the menu bar.
1. Login to your
Blogspot dashboard.
2. Go to layout.
3. Click on your menu bar widget (it’s probably labeled pages) to open it up.
5. Type in the
title as you want it to appear (in our example, type the word Marriage).
6. Now you need to
type in a URL. http://www.[your blog name].com/search/label/[your
label]
7. Hit save.
You are all set!
Any blog post that uses that label will be pulled up like a filtered archive
(listed according
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