Blank title widgets
For some strange reason, Blogger, in it's infinite wisdom, once again has decided to do something bizarre with the templates. It is now making us put a title in each widget/gadget title field.
Why? Good question. I wish I knew. But, until the person in charge of Template Management on the blogger team wakes up and realizes the error in this way, I have a work-around. And, thankfully, it is a simple one.
Every time you edit a gadget that had no title, or when you create a new gadget that you don't want a title on, put this code in the title field:
<h2></h2>For the time being we have fooled the gadgets to believe there is a title in the field.
I hope they realize that this behaviour is just plain silly and put it back the way it was.
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THANK YOU!! I was so frustrated and you saved me a ton of time trying to figure this out. Blessings!
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Thank you so much for this. I edited a widget today and had an error and couldn't figure out why.
I just noticed this yesterday and the only thing I could think of was adding "." to the title.
Thanks man! Appreciate you looking out, keep doing what you do.
I just use <.none.> minus the periods.
I just found out about this when I tried to edit an untitled widget.. it's weird yes!
Thanks to you, I can edit it now :D
btw, may I know why this should be < h2 >< /h2> ?
just curious :)
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It's been three hours trying to figure out how to remove my big title in the widget area, and this post helped me a lot, thanks!!!!
clever, it's just as easy as putting a blank tag in the field. good work.
Luckily for me, I use Wordpress. And I think you've got a really great blog.
Nice tip - had never known how to fool that gadgets while creating them.
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You are SUCH a lifesaver! I've been trying to fix this all day on my company's blog to no avail! I'm a personal trainer in CT and keep a blog of clients' (anonymous) improvements! This was a huge problem to come home to today, what a pain in the a$$! Check out my blog if you'd like, you'll find the (very long lol) link at Horizon
Blogger being owned by Google I think it is safe to say the reason is related to making it easier to identify where paid links may be placed on blogs.
Forcing you to enter a title will surely fool most into entering something like "Sponsors" or the like into such a gadget. Won't surprise me if next you are forced to enter a description for the gadget as well.
I smell a conspiracy theory here :)
Thanks for the helpful tips. There should be an option to not use titles if a blogger does not want one.
also updated the widget, now has a blog like a better work, thank you for your work!
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OH MY GOSH THANK YOU!!!!! I have turned my blog into my business website and didn't want to have the titles of my widgets showing. So thankful for your help in making my blog beautiful!
Thank you for this valuable information. This definitely made things a whole lot easier for me.
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Thanks for sharing this information with us.I hadn't known that until I read it.
I don't understand the reason too?
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they addressed it on their forums. its not supposed to be like that, they are fixing it within this week!!
Thank you for your tips that help a lot of people.
I have heard that they are working on fixing it or already fixed it. Anyway very clever your move :)
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I have already done this work. Great working.
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Luckily, I use wordpress which is very flexible, so i do not have to bother about editing widget titles. But your post will have been quite useful to blogger users, i am sure. Is there a reason why you and others choose to stick with blogger? By the way, your design is quite attractive.
Thanks for this. It really solve some of my problems in my blog..I hope to get more ideas from you.Thanks a lot.
Great point, I had issues with blank titles before. Cheers for this.
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Thank you for your useful information. It cleared my mind, i think titles shouldnt be nesesary for the blog to be posted :P
you know, it's funny when sites make changes that make it seem like they could care less about the ease of use, digg.com just recently did something similar with their new version that is coming out soon, when will they learn??
Thanks for the info. Nice trick.
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This is a really helpful post! There should be an option not to use titles if the blogger doesn't want one at all.
I know sites do have to evolve, but I do not always embrace change. Especially when I do not understand the reasons why.
Thanks for the soloution to this one.
Thanks for this workaround! It makes simply no sense to be forced to put a title in the widgets...
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I wonder if you could just put in a <span><span$gt; tag if it would do the same thing as the h2 tags. It's just that I'd rather not use h2 tags as they are not styled as inline, but rather block instead as default.
@Devin...I don't know. Give it a try :-)
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Thanks for the work around Ann.. and also for posting this issue. Hey admins wake up!
Nice post, I also use WordPress, it is always nice to find posts that makes a person life just a little easier.
Honestly, I haven't noticed on my site just yet. But since I was able to drop by on your post, I think I'll take note of it. For whatever reason blogger has, I hope it should be a good one. Anyway, thanks for sharing. I don't want to end up just like the others trying to figure out how to remove that title on any widget I'll add.
Thanks for the tips. Just wondering, why use h2 tag? Can I use h3 tag also? Anyways, thanks for sharing the cleaver and helpful tips with us. I'll try it very soon.
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Silly tricks isn't it, but this is very useful. When I want to add another gadget in my blog it has always a title, I thought it could never be remove. But this tricks make this possible. Very excellent idea, thank you. Oh, by the way I try this to one of my blog...thanks for the tips.
I use wordpress and they also make us put titles for everything. It is silly because I'm not sure what to call certain widgets nor do I want a title for everything.
This may be a silly question, but why would you use H2 tags instead of h1? I had made the same mistake on my blogs such as DesiChords and once I changed them to h1, traffic jumped +50%
Very clever!! You're a lifesaver. Until I read your post I was adding ` and hoping for the day when I would be able to have a blank title bar. Thank you for the simple but much welcome solution.
Good article for beginners, thank you so much for trying to share help for everybody.
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H2 tags is used as the description of the h1 tag.
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It does seem quite pointless forcing a title on every widget, I don't see the benefit of doing that. At least you've come up with a work-around, though.
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I think, the search engines did not find any h1 tags. So, in that case, characters between h2 tags become the title. If you replace the h2 tags with the h1 tags then you will observe the same response.
Haven't come across this problem before but have noted for future reference.
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I wish I knew. But, until the person in charge of Template Management on the blogger team wakes up and realizes the error in this way, I have a work-around. And, thankfully, it is a simple one.
This tutorial is great. A blank title bar gives me more room to customize the look of my blog without unnecessary words. Thank you.
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Cool! Title is not really necessary in widgets. Thanks for teaching us how to remove it.
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I was getting so frustrated with that, whats the point in adding a title to the widgets, thanks for telling me how to get rid.
I tried it but its no longer working. I think they have disabled that one as well. I had to remove the title from the "edit html" section...
h2 headings help to add relevance to your blogs and posts, so it's better to put something meaningful there unless you really need it blank for some reason.
Haven't come across this problem before but have noted for future reference.
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Indeed, this technique is now well known and creating empty title has saved us from big head aches, still lot of new webmasters and internet marketers are finding it hard to solve this problem, as its part of their learning curve.
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Hey, thanks so much for providing a fix for this. I decided to keep the titles but edit them to something useful as it helps the SEO of the site.
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