How to Pre-Format Your Posts in Blogger

Hello bloggers, have you been blogging lately? I'm sure most of you and it's rare we might see bloggers running out of topics if they love to write in their niche. Don't you agree? If you explore the blogosphere for a moment, you will find personal blogs, blogs with random topics and almost other blogs are fit into a particular niche. Of course, correct me if I'm wrong there ;) Is there a possibility that a blogger might write in the same format when writing posts or articles?

What's Common?

Each blogger has a specific writing style but it doesn't mean every post follows the same format. But there could be scenarios where bloggers would follow a specific format in a series. Think of a blogger writing about a 30 day challenge.

Can you see? The headings can be repetitive :) Obviously, the description will be different each day. Mmm... What if headings populate automatically with relevant styles when we start to compose next post? Yeah, you just need to write the description and change the number in sub-heading instead of starting from scratch.

Can't visualize? Alright. Let's think about another simple example - A Writing Challenge. Below you can find two posts of that series and I've put the together, so you can compare what's common.

Both posts follow same formatting and you just need to change the number in main heading, and last word is never be the same through the series. You can simply take a copy of post #08 and make minor changes to reflect post #09 easily rather than writing post #09 from scratch. Got my point? ;).

Are you going through or willing to start writing a similar series of posts or articles? These are basic examples but you can use the idea behind it for posts with advanced formatting too. Let's stop doing hard work but be SMART. Shall we?

Pre-Formatting

If you are on Blogger blogging platform, you can use pre-formatting for posts. The feature is called as Post Template. How does it work? Well, you need some knowledge of HTML basics if it's just not about text but application of styles. You can type in what needs to be appeared on post editor and same will be appeared when you create a new post.

What if you don't need the formatting anymore? Nothing to worry about. You can remove the pre-formatting and your post editor will be blank when you create a new post again. Are you in need of pre-formatting?


Steps:

1. Go to Blogger Dashboard.

2. Click on your Blog Title.

3. Jump to Settings from left pane.

4. Navigate to Posts and comments under Settings.

5. Find the Post Template option under Posts heading.

6. Click on Add link.

7. Now enter your text or code with relevant formatting in the given text field.

8. Save settings when you done with the post template.

9. To view your pre-formatted text, create a new post and your post editor will be filled with pre-formatted text.

More Information:

* You can remove post template by clicking on Remove link beneath the text field at Post Template setting and save settings to confirm.

Enjoy :-)