Recently I faced a problem of showing my posts twice on blog's home page and also the particular posts were being repeating twice when we open them. I faced this problem first time due to a little mistake of mine, which can be repeated by you also. While this problem comes on any blog, can also be seen in 'template' in your editing area. You see two elements of posts in template and you can face this problem with your header also or with both at a time. This problem make your blog suffer very badly and can irritate you and your readers. Just after getting this problem, I searched on google for its solution but not found any working solution. So, I am sharing why your blog can show your posts/header twice in blogger and how you can be safe from this problem(tomorrow I will write how to remove twice posts on your blogger blog's homepage) .
Why your blog can show your posts/header twice in blogger ?
- This may be due to uploading of other blog's back up.
If you have to blogs on blogger and want to get the template of your second blog on a blog then never upload the xml backup of the other blog, this may lead to adding the code
(<b:widget id='Blog2' locked='true' title='Blog Posts' type='Blog'/>)
of one extra blog posts/header element in your template which can not also erased directly and then your blog will get the problem of showing your posts/header twice.
- This may be due to uploading a new template.
If you want to change the template of your blog then I will suggest you that don't apply any template directly on your main blog. You should first test it on your test blog and then if you like that, then you should apply that template to your main blog. Never change your blog template frequently, it is not recommended.
After deciding the template for your main blog, you should go to blogger old interface first and then upload the desired template. After uploading template you will get alert of adding more widgets to your blog, there delete that extra widgets, or must delete 'blog2' or 'header2' widgets. Because this is the step which can add repeated posting code to your blog which I discuss in first point.
- Why this can not be removed by opening edit html window?
You can not delete this code even in your edit html window, because when you open edit html and then remove "<b:widget id='Blog2' locked='true' title='Blog Posts' type='Blog'/> ". But after removing that you can not save your template, on trying this you will get an error from blogger. The reason of this error is that you can't remove any post area from your blogger template.
I hope this will help you in your starting career of blogging.
Also read my next exclusive working post of removing twice posting on your blog.
