Blogger Tip - Making Your Menu Permanent

While going through some of the bollyblogs, I noticed that when you go to the specific page of a post (by clicking the Permalink), majority of the items on the navigation/menu/sidebar disappears. 'Previous Posts' is the only part that remains intact. As an example, look at Beth's post and Totally Basmatic's post on Anamika. You can see the list of links that are present on the main page aren't there on these pages.

If you want it to be like that, that's absolutely fine. There is nothing wrong with that. But if you are like me, and want the content of your sidebar to appear on all pages the same way then you need to retouch the html code of your template.

How to do this:

By default, Blogger creates a 'Links' section, like the image below, on every new blog.


Here is how the code looks like: (click to enlarge)

To make this list appear on all the pages what you need to do is to delete the part shown in orange. It's that simple.

We usually copy this code for every other list of links that we want to make. So in all instances, you need to remove that part to make the list appear on all pages. A lot of you might already know this, but I thought it is worth mentioning for those who haven't noticed this yet.

NOTE: If you have some useful Blogger/Blogspot tricks and techniques, please do share them with. Thank you.