How to Change the "Posted By" Line of Each Post

If you wish to change your Post footer in one of Blogger's default templates, go to Template | Main Template and scroll until you see this code:

<div class="byline">

within the <Blogger> and </Blogger> tags. Anything between it and the closing </div> tag is the footer.

Let's dissect it piece by piece. Here's the default byline, in published form:

The first part (the "#") is called the permalink; this is code that generates it:

The text inside the " " (quotation marks) generates the link, <$BlogItemPermalinkURL$> being the link to that specific post on the archive page. The # sign at the end, just before the </a>, is the link text (feel free to change it to whatever you wish, including another template tag, <$BlogItemDateTime$> for example).

The second part, "posted by etc." is generated by this text, and can be modified as you wish:

Notes:

• A permalink can also be displayed in the following manner:

  <a href="<$BlogItemArchiveFileName$>#<$BlogItemNumber$>" title="permanent link">#</a>