How to Post Thumbnail Files on Blogger

Business owners who use Google's Blogger platform for their official blogs often seek ways to provide site visitors -- possibly customers or staff -- with links to images and blog posts in a visually appealing manner. Thumbnails, which are small images, can be used as links. You add thumbnails to your Blogger blog using widgets, which Google refers to as gadgets. You can set up photo website-specific gadgets or a gadget that displays thumbnails of images used in recent posts from your Blogger blog or another blog.

Step 1Access your Blogger dashboard and click the “More Options” drop-down menu next to the Go to Post List button for one of your blogs. Select “Layout” to go to the blog’s Layout screen. You can also click the name of your blog to go to the Overview screen and click “Layout” on the left sidebar.

 

Step 2Click “Add a Gadget” in the section where you want to post thumbnail files to your blog.

Step 3Type the word “thumbnails” in the Search for Gadgets field near the upper-right corner of the window and click the magnifying glass icon.

 

Step 4Select a gadget option on the list or click the “+” next to it to open the Configure Gadget screen. You can post thumbnails of pictures saved to a Picasa album or Flickr photostream or thumbnails of recent blog posts.

 

Step 5Complete the fields on the Configure Gadget screen. For example, for Picasa or Flickr, add a title, add a thumbnail height in pixels, provide a username, select the number of thumbnails to display and provide a site link.
For recent blog posts, add a title and thumbnail height, choose a blog from which to post, select the number of posts to display and post title maximum length, configure the snippet and meta settings, and edit the font and link options.

 

Step 6Click the “Save” button when finished. Click “Save Arrangement” on the Layout screen to update your blog.

Tips

• Type “thumbnails” instead of “thumbnail” in the search field, or the thumbnail gadgets won’t appear. You can also use the words “Picasa,” “Flickr” or “Recent Posts” to find the gadgets.
• If you don’t see the Search for Gadgets field, click each category name on the left side of the window to see if the field appears under any other category. If you can’t find it, scroll through each category to find thumbnail gadgets.