Sometimes, we need to remove a page or post from a blog - but prefer to not delete it.
There are various reasons for not wanting to delete a page / post immediately or permanently - maybe when removing a post for problem diagnosis, or to change the URL to match the publish date. Reverting to draft status is easily reversed, and has no permanent side effects.
When you want to quickly - but not permanently - remove a page or post, you can revert to draft status.
Reverting to draft status is convenient, safe, and simple.
You can revert a page or post using Page / Post Editor, or the Pages / Posts dashboard page.
- Revert, using the Pages / Posts dashboard pages.
- Revert, using the Page Editor / Post Editor.
Revert, using the Pages / Posts dashboard pages.
The Pages / Posts dashboard page is a menu. Simply select one or more pages or posts, then click "Revert to draft". Click on "Yes" to verify. and you're done.
Hit "Revert to draft", after selecting a page or post.
Revert, using the Page Editor / Post Editor.
Any time that you are editing a previously published page or post, click "Revert to draft". And you're done.
Hit "Revert to draft", when in page / post editor.
And when you're done, you're done.
Once a post is newly draft, it's offline. Page / post content in cache on your readers's computers will be readable until it expires. New readers, on the other hand, will see a "404" immediately.
You can recover the post with the URL - or rename to a new URL.
If you revert to draft - then later, re publish without changing the title, you will get the same post, with the same URL, back. If you change the title with the post in draft status, you get the same post content, under a new URL, when you re publish.
If you do the latter by mistake - then discover the mistake later, you can recover the mistake by merging the new and previous URLs. Just add a custom redirect from the new to old URL (or vice versa).
Review / Recover The Draft Inventory, With One Mouse Click
Any time that you need, review the inventory of Draft posts. Just click on "Draft" under "Posts". You can Edit then Publish - or just Publish, immediately.
Check out the current Draft posts complement, from Pages or Posts - Draft. Then recover one or more.
Just select one or more posts, then "Publish".
Or edit a page or post, then Publish.
Either way, you can recover any pages or posts, reverted, easily enough - as long as you revert them, instead of deleting them.
Just understand the possibilities.
Reverting a #Blogger blog post to draft status is a quick, yet reversible, way to take a post offline. The URL will be recovered, automatically - as long as you do not change the title.
We get occasional odd problem reports in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken about mysterious display oddities.
Why is my sidebar vibrating?
Here I'll note that the problem about "vibrating" has been reported, using various synonyms - in different syntaxes.
This symptom has many possible phrasings, as mentioned in different forum problem reports.
- Dancing.
- Jiggling.
- Jumping.
- Leaping.
- Moving.
- Shaking.
- Shimmering.
- Trembling.
- Vibrating.
- Waving.
- Wiggling.
Identifying the words used, in the problem reports, is one challenge.
The problem appears to involve the Followers gadget (possibly, specific versions of Followers), being positioned at the top of the sidebar, above other accessories.
One can only wonder what terms are used, in non English speaking countries.
This problem is not easy to identify in quantity, because of the many different synonyms used - and with some synonyms used, in different syntaxes.
Why does my sidebar vibrate?
or
My sidebar vibrates!
instead of
Why is my sidebar vibrating?
for one example. This makes any forum text search, to look for similar reports, require multiple, exhaustive attempts.
The list of 11 words, above, is just a list of examples, alphabetised (as I do with most lists). I have seen all 11 words (33 possible syntax combinations), and more, from time to time, in various blog comments, blog posts, and forum questions.
Positioning of the Followers gadget can affect multiple template gadgets.
Some blog owners have positioned the Followers gadget above the posts column - or even beneath the blog title / description (and spread across the entire blog width). This will make the posts column - or even the posts / sidebars (the entire blog width) - subject to this effect.
The problem appears to involve the Chrome (possibly Safari too) browser - and is visible only at specific Zoom levels.
If you see this problem when viewing someone else's blog, try zooming in or out, and see if the problem persists. Chances are, it will stop. Also, try using a different browser.
If you see this problem when you are viewing your blog, try repositioning the Followers gadget lower in the sidebar. Observe what gadgets are positioned below the Followers gadget, as you move the gadget downward.
Possibly encouraged by less than positive reviews, Blogger has recently enhanced their dynamic templates.Dynamic Views are a set of templates that make it easy and fun to explore a blog. As you might expect, we’ve made the gadgets interactive too. Instead of appearing in a panel that consumes valuable real estate on your blog, gadgets now appear in a dock that slides in and out as you move your cursor over them.
Now, at least some of the gadgets in the sidebar will be visible to your readers, when they visit your blog, as viewed using a dynamic view.
The shiny new dynamic views are now more usable for us - with our readers able to see some of the sidebar gadgets which we may accessorise our blogs.
You may now read this blog, using a dynamic view.
If you're in non dynamic view, look above. See the link in the linkbar, "DYNAMIC"? Click on that, and you'll see the "home" page post, for this blog - today, you'll see this post. If you're already in dynamic view, you'll be here.
Click on the picture, to see more detail. See the vertical bar, in the right margin, just left of the scroll tab?
Don't bother clicking more than once, though.
As you view a blog dynamically, you'll see the "docked sidebar" artifact, the vertical bar, there in the right margin of the display. Hover the mouse right over the vertical bar, and see what pops out at you.
Watch the CPU and memory displays on your computer, too. This shiny new feature is not for marginally overloaded computers - but for those who can use it, the dynamic views just became shinier.
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