The Blog Widget is the most important widget in Blogger. It contains the core content of a blog including its posts, comments, back links and feed links. In other words, this is what defines the composition of the main column of a Blogger blog.
Knowing the finer points of the Blog widget is very valuable to any Blogger user. Since it is so important, I'm going to explain this widget over several articles. This is the first part of a multi part article series on the Blog widget.
As with any widget, the Blog widget also has a primary <b:includable> section with an id='main'. However, it also contains a number of other <b:includable> sections, each serving a valuable purpose. They are:
- status-message
- post
- postQuickEdit
- comments
- commentDeleteIcon
- backlinks
- backlinkDeleteIcon
- nextprev
- feedLinks
- feedLinksBody
At the first level of inclusions in the main section are the status-message, post, comments (only in item pages), nextprev and feedLinks sections. The post section in turn includes the postQuickEdit section. commentDeleteIcon and backlinks sections are contained within the comments section and the backlinks section in turn includes the backlinkDeleteIcon section. Finally, the feedLinks contains the feedLinksBody section.
In the articles to follow, we will probe each of these includable sections one by one.
