A Claire Disclaimer:This tip is for Blogger.com Blogs, some work for Classic (old) Blogger some don’t.
Another quick an easy tip, that will make a small change to your blogger blog 
Click on customise, then you will see your page elements and next to that you will see the blog post box.
Click on edit in this box and a edit window will pop up.
You can then change the word comments to anything you like, i changed mine to contributions
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI’ve used this – thanks.
Another question for you Claire please.
I have done a post today which I have saved to draft to publish tomorrow. I have noticed when I have done that before that the post has the date of the draft on and not the day of publish. Is there a way to change the date? Does that make sense?
Hey Akelamalu, yes that makes sense.
Will answer you shortly!
Akelamalu, you can “edit” your post and click on “Post Options” … it is above the save as draft and publish buttons.
Thank you Claire and Andy!
That’s a pretty cool option.
Your welcome akelamalu.
Thanks for trying to steal my job Andy
Cheers Matthew!
Nice to read something I actually knew!
I guess i have to work harder then
Keep the good tips coming Claire
Will let you off just this once Andy!
Flattery works.
Darn.
This wasn’t what I’d hoped it would be. This only relates to the new Blogger with the idiot-proof template generator.
Rather than lose (or re-load) all the junk I’ve accumulated since I started I still have the original template. Any idea how I can change the word “comments” in the HTML?
(See what happens when you volunteer to be a guru?)
Quick note Claire, your tip is for people using the New Blogger. I am still using what they call Classic, or the old version.
With the Classic version you can accomplish this by editing the template file. If you open up your template, scroll down until you see this line of code:
<div class=”blogComments”>
Somewhere just below that you will see the text used for Comments. If it has not been changed yet, it should simply say ‘Comments:’. Change it to whatever, like your example ‘Contributions:’ and save the Template.
Thanks indeed Webstractions
I shall have to amend my Claire disclaimer to new blogger blunderer!
Lets see if i can make a new post out of your great tip
You are indeed welcome Claire. More than happy to help out.
The main reason I commented was that I host my Blogger account on my own website, and am afraid of taking the plunge into the new er version of Blogger. It would drastically effect it. The template I have set up is too site specific, plus I have more control over the layout.
I know there are a few Bloggers out there that are doing the same, and your posts here are gaining recognition. Best to set them straight right from the get-go. I will try to monitor your posts and point out any helpful hints to that regard — if you don’t mind. LOL.
Good stuff, this certainly needs to be extracted from the comments
Not extracted. Just amended.
I think both types of Blogger users can benefit.
OK, I got brave and tried to change this a bit –
But the line that needed to be changed, apparently, was this one (don’t know if it will fit entirely)
< a >“> responses< /a >
(Where “responses” — how unimaginative — has been substituted for “comments.”)
HTML experts? How do I tell the machine these aren’t really instructions to execute, but just a line of text to reproduce?
I don’t know the correct way Curmudgeon, so for now I added some extra spaces. People should know to ignore them…
Curmudgeon — you use Html entities to display the the brackets. An entity starts with &(ampersand) and ends with ;(semi-colon), and has an shorthand description for what you want to display (without being interpreted by the browser).
Typing in this code:
<a href="linkurl">Responses</a>Will display like this:
<a href=”linkurl”>Responses</>
(and I am hoping that the <code> tags work in this editor
)
code tags dont work. Here you go, except without the space.
less-than sign: & lt;
more-than sign: & mt;
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