Editing Existing Posts

Blogger provides a dashboard of all the previous posts on your blog and allows you to edit any of them, even if they've already been published.

Getting There
Log into your blog, then click Customize. Click the Posting tab, then click Edit Posts. All of your posts are listed in chronological order, starting with the most recent. If a post is in draft status (that is, you saved it, but didn't publish it), the word draft appears to the right of the title and the labels you assigned to the post.

(Remember, labels allow you to categorize posts and provide tags users can click to view all the posts with that label. For instance, this post includes the label blogging, as do the rest of the posts in this series.)

What You Can Do
Click the triangle to the left of the post title to view the text in the post. To edit the post, click Edit. To delete the post, click Delete. Make sure you really want to delete the post, because once it's gone, it's gone.

If you decide to add a label to several posts, select the posts, then click the desired label in the Label Actions dropdown (above the Edit link for the most recent post).

To filter your posts, click the category links above the list (All, drafts, scheduled, etc.). If you've published a post, a View link appears, that allows you to view that post as it appears on your blog.

Links for all your labels appear to the left.

The Bottom Line
After you've used the blog post list a couple times, it becomes second nature and very easy to use. You can write posts ahead of time, save them, then publish them; apply labels to any post or group of posts, and delete posts.

A Quick Word About the Comment Moderation Feature
If you moderate your comments, you can control comment moderation using that link. If you don't have comment moderation turned on, clicking Comment Moderation displays a link to the area that allows you to change the comment moderation settings.

Next time, we'll talk about settings in Blogger.