#google blogger tutorials

First, make sure to backup your blog’s theme, so in case anything goes wrong, you can revert the changes you’ve made.

Now, go to one of the posts on your blog. Scroll down to the bottom then right-click on the last element that shows up before the Disqus comments section. This could be the tags list or the social media sharing buttons or even the related posts section. This depends on the theme you’re using.

So, right-click on this element and choose “Inspect” or “Inspect element” (the wording depends on the internet browser that you’re using). Use this to find the class name of the element in question.

Again, this depends on the theme you’re using. For example, the class name could be “post-footer.” You can see something that looks like this:

<div class="post-footer">

Take note of the class name. Now, go to the dashboard of your Google Blogger blog. Click the “Template” link in the sidebar then the “Edit HTML” button.

Click on the screen where the codes for your theme are being displayed. Now press the Ctrl + F buttons on your keyboard to open the search bar. Use this search bar to find the class name that you got earlier.

Once you find it, you can try writing your comment guidelines or any text that you want to appear before the comments section of your blog. Type the text at the very end of the codes for that element. 

For example, if the class name you found is “post-footer,” you’ll see something like this in the HTML part of your blog’s template:

<div class="post-footer"> More codes here </div>

The end of the codes for that element is marked by “</div>,” so put your comment guidelines text right after that piece of code. Just writing the text as-is should work. But you can also enclose it in paragraph (<p></p>) tags.

If you’re using Google Blogger: 

First, go to the dashboard for your blog

Click the Settings link. It’s the last option in the sidebar

When you click it, a dropdown of links shows up. Click on the Posts, Comments and Sharing link

Scroll down until you see the Comment Form Message textbox

Type your comment guidelines or any other text you want on the textbox then click on the orang Save Settings button on the upper right side of the page

Check a post from your blog to see how it looks 

Below, you can see an image of the Comment Form Message box from one of my Google Blogger blogs: 

Here’s how it looks on one of the posts my blog: