Saturday, June 6, 2015

How to add Tabs to Your Menu Bar in Blogger

This was probably the most frustrating thing for me to figure out when I first started my blog. It's actually really easy. So without further ado –

STEP 1

In your Blogger Dashboard go to the Overview Screen and click on the “Pages” link on the left side of the screen.


STEP 2

Your Pages Screen should now be up. Click the “New Page” button. IMPORTANT: Don't click the little "Compose/pencil" button at the top of the screen; this will create a "Post" not a "Page."


STEP 3

The screen for creating a Page looks a lot like the screen for creating a Post. IMPORTANT: Give the Page the title that you want to see as a Tab in your menu bar. When you are finished writing up the body of the Page, hit “Publish.”


 STEP 4

You should now be back at the Pages Screen and your new Page should be listed. Now click the “Layout” link on the left side of the screen.


STEP 5

Now you should see the screen for your blog layout. Click the “Add a Gadget” in the horizontal space below the Header.


STEP 6

A Gadget menu will pop up. Scroll down until you see the option for “Pages” and then click on the plus sign.


STEP 7

A Configure Page List will pop up. You should see a list of the Page/s you created earlier. Check all that you want to have shown as Tabs in your menu bar. NOTE: I leave the title blank because I don’t think a menu bar really needs a title. Click “Save.”


STEP 8

After you click save you will see your Layout screen again. You will now see a horizontal “Pages” box where the “Add a Gadget” box used to be. IMPORTANT: At this point make sure that you click the “Save Arrangement” button! I have forgotten this step before and lost a lot of work, yikes!


STEP 9

View your blog and see your beautiful new Menu Bar!!!!!




I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! If you are still stuck or if you have any other tech questions, please let me know!

9 comments:

  1. Great job on explaining and sharing! I sometimes have to search, try and hunt to remember!!

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  2. Great tutorial on how to do this! Thanks for sharing!!!

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  3. Thank you so much for all the work for this great tutorial!

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  4. Perfect! I've been struggling with many things, this being one of them. I'm anxious for the school year to end so I have my "photographer", I have no idea how to use her DSLR camera. I'd love to make a page with my quilts.

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  5. Thank you! This is awesome, once I am ready to add some pages I will definitely be referring to this.

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  6. Thanks....it's just so much easier when someone shows you how to do something.

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  7. Thank you, someday I am going to try this. But I have a question...I used to be able to pin pic's from my blog to pintrest and now I can't...what happened how do I fix it, do you know? I am on blogger.

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