How To Display Gadgets Only on Home Page Or Post Pages

Steps To Display Gadgets On Home Or Post Pages


If the gadget you want is not already on your blog add it first.For this example i am using a test blog and i am going to use the same recent posts widget.I have already added it to the blogs sidebar.

Name The Gadget - You will later have to find the gadget in your blogs template so to make this easy make sure the gadget has a name or title, i am looking for my recent posts gadget so it has the title recent posts if the gadget you want to move does not have a title just give it the title xxxxx and you can remove it when finished.

Step 1 - In your dashboard Click 'Layout' > 'Edit Html' > Tick the 'Expand widget templates' box

Step 2 - Now you want to find the gadget in your template so i looked for 'Recent Posts' you look for the title of your gadget or xxxxx if you used that name.
The easiest way to do this is to click 'CTRL and F' for a search bar to help find the code - for more info on this click the extra help link at the top of the post.

You want to find a section of code similar to the one below :

<b:widget id='HTML1' locked='false' title='Recent Posts' type='HTML'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<!-- only display title if it's non-empty -->
<b:if cond='data:title != &quot;&quot;'>
<h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
<data:content/>
</div>

<b:include name='quickedit'/>
</b:includable>

For some gadgets like your archive the section will be larger but you want everything between :

<b:widget id='HTML1' locked='false' title='Recent Posts' type='HTML'>

And

</b:includable>


Step 3 - Now we have the code for the gadget we have to add two pieces of code to make it display on the home page only.You can see the two pieces of code i added to make this happen in red below :

<b:widget id='HTML1' locked='false' title='Recent Posts' type='HTML'>
<b:includable id='main'>

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>

<!-- only display title if it's non-empty -->
<b:if cond='data:title != &quot;&quot;'>
<h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
<data:content/>
</div>

<b:include name='quickedit'/>

</b:if>

</b:includable>

Copy the code in red and add in place for your gadget.

Take you time and make sure you have it added correctly, once your sure you can save your template.

Adding a gadget to your blog post pages only


To make a gadget display on the post pages only follow the same steps to find the gadget in your template.The only difference is the code added.This time you use the two piece of code shown below :

<b:widget id='HTML1' locked='false' title='Recent Posts' type='HTML'>
<b:includable id='main'>

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>

<!-- only display title if it's non-empty -->
<b:if cond='data:title != &quot;&quot;'>
<h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
<data:content/>
</div>

<b:include name='quickedit'/>

</b:if>

</b:includable>

Once again copy the code in red and put it in place for your gadget.
When your sure the code is added properly save your template and your done.

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