Changing the “Previous Entires” and “Next Entries” Buttons

Would you like to change what the text says at the bottom of long lists of posts? These texts will normally say “Previous Entires” and “Next Entires”, but you can dig into the coding and make them say whatever you want. This tutorial will tell you how just as in the example below.

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First scroll down on your blog’s home page and find “Meta”. Next click on “Site Admin” under that.

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Next, click on “Presentation” on the top navigation bar.

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Now click on “Theme Editor” on the second navigation bar at the top.

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This part will take a lot of searching and pasting. You will have to search through each template listed on the right of your screen that I have listed below and customize what you want the text to say. I am listing the name of each template that you will have to open and how many times you will have to change the “Previous Entires” and “Next Entries” in each template. To open a template, click on its name on the right side of your sreen. (This list goes in order from top of the template list to the bottom of it.)

Archive Template – 2
Main Template – 1
Search Template – 2

Once you open a template, scroll through its textbox until you find something that says “Previous Entries” and “Next Entries”. Highlight only the words that say that, (not the codes around the words,) and customize them to say whatever you want. You can make them match your theme. Make sure that you use the same thing with each one that you change in all three templates so that they match up.

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~ by Noelle on October 28, 2007.

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