How to Display Labels in Your Posts in Blogger

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How to Display Labels in Your Posts in Blogger
Displaying Labels also known as categorizes in your posts is always considered as an effective technique to provide your audience with a bit more context about your content, at their first glance. Recently, one of our users asked us that how to display labels in posts, in blogger? Considering the fact that, it gives your visitors a way to read your old content, It may not be recommended to those who are running a corporate blog on blogger. However, it is essential for all niches based sites running on blogger. In this article, we will show you, how to display Labels in your posts in blogger.

The first thing you need to do is to login into your Blogger account. After logging in select your blog in which you would like to display labels in posts. Now go to Template ›› Edit HTML ›› and search for the <data:post.body/> Tag and just above it paste the following XML coding. (Remember: You might see multiple tags, so be sure you are pasting the code at the right tag, it entirely depends on the template you are using).

<span class='post-label'> in <b:if cond='data:post.labels'>
          <b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>
            <a expr:href='data:label.url + &quot;?&amp;max-results=10&quot;' rel='tag'><data:label.name/></a><b:if cond='data:label.isLast != &quot;true&quot;'>,</b:if>
          </b:loop>
        </b:if> </span>

You can customize it with a bit of stylesheet, Here is a simple CSS that works pretty well. However, you can customize it according to your needs. There is not much to change, except the hyperlink and hover color. You should add the following code right above the ]]></b:skin> tag.

.post-label {
float:left;
font-size:14px;
color:#555
}
.post-label a {
color:#111
text-decoration:none;
}
.post-label a {
text-decoration:undeline;
}

Congratulations: Once everything is done save your template by pressing “Save Template” button. Congratulations, you have successfully added labels in your posts.

Note: While writing posts make sure you have assigned a label, otherwise you will not see any label when you publish the post. For more details, see the following screenshot:
We hope this tutorial may have helped you in learning how to add labels in your posts, in blogger. Does anybody is using the same practice to display labels in posts, we are using the same method at MyBloggerLab. Do let us know what are your thoughts about it, let us have a meaningful conversation ahead.
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12 comments

December 30, 2013 at 1:27 PM

nice post baby..

January 14, 2014 at 9:04 PM

Very nice article! I tried all the tips you gave but it didn't work out for me :/ now the divs are broken :( you may have a look at:

www.hihellobye.com

Sorry I am not expert of all this stuff :(

Editorial Team MOD
January 14, 2014 at 10:51 PM

Can you please provide me a bit more info about the error

January 31, 2014 at 11:47 AM

That was really helpful. Thank you.

March 7, 2014 at 12:39 AM

Thanks a lot... :)

December 28, 2015 at 12:52 PM

It didn't work for me because there is no "data:post.body" tag among the 7 tags. Can you help, please?

December 28, 2015 at 12:54 PM

I already did this! I couldn't find the data:post.body tag among the seven there. Can you help me please? Thanks.

Editorial Team MOD
December 29, 2015 at 12:00 AM

Can you please provide me your blog URL

July 11, 2016 at 4:36 AM

amzaing

August 24, 2016 at 11:20 PM

Now a days most of the blogger template make the Label displayed by default.

Editorial Team MOD
August 27, 2016 at 6:26 AM

Yes but these codes help new developers in adding Labels to their custom templates.

Cheers

November 4, 2019 at 12:22 AM

Thanks. This is very helpful.

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