How To Remove The Wrench, Pencil, & More On Blogger

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As someone who loves designing Blogger blogs and playing with new ideas, I’ve discovered a lot of default settings in Blogger templates that just don’t serve much of a purpose, and they’re the first things I remove when starting a design from scratch. They’re all extremely easy to get rid of, and if removing these features is something you want to do, this whole list of tutorials will take you just a few minutes!

Removing The Wrench Icon

To remove the wrench icon, simply go to Template > Customize > Advanced > Add CSS and paste the following code in the box:

.quickedit {
display:none;
}

Removing The Quick Edit Pencil

To hide the pencil icon, go to Layout > Blog Posts > Edit and uncheck the “Show Quick Editing” box. This widget has a lot of features that are removable, so you can get rid of anything else you don’t need!

Removing The Blogger Navigation Bar

To remove the default navigation bar on Blogger (the one with the Blogger logo and a search box), go to Layout > Navbar > Edit and select “Off”. Simple as that!

Remove Subscribe To Posts (atom)

This one will require a bit more digging. Go to Template > Edit HTML and using your keyboard’s search function (CTRL+F or CMD+F), search for the following line of code:

<b:include data='feedLinks' name='feedLinksBody'/>

Remove that line and save your template. If you’re worried about editing code, be sure to back up your template before doing this just in case!

Remove the Powered By Blogger Attribution

Go to Template > Customize > Advanced > Add CSS and paste the following code in the box:

#Attribution1 {
display: none;
}

That’s it! If there’s anything else you’d like to know about editing your Blogger design, let me know in the comments!

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  • http://gina-alyse.com/ Gina Alyse

    Amen for this post! I love how you paired all of these together. Definitely going to be referring back to this when I do Blogger designs! :)

    • http://thebloggingbrew.com Jessica Slaughter

      I found a bunch of other posts that had individual tutorials, but it just made sense to group them into one! Thank you!! :)

  • http://alyssajfreitas.blogspot.com Alyssa J Freitas

    Thank you for sharing! The little wrench has always driven me insane!

    Alyssa J Freitas

    • http://thebloggingbrew.com Jessica Slaughter

      Of course! And isn’t it annoying?? It was useful for a little while, but it just got in the way!

  • http://www.thegeekyburrow.com Alice

    Thank you so so much for your Blogger tutorial! I’m using them all. I actually have a problem with my DIY graphic of the blog: my photos are 640px wide, I tried everything, but the only way to keep them centered is to have the post body a little bit wider (688px), if I try to set the text to 640px, the photos slip to right going outside the box and not being centered anymore. I don’t know if it’s me, or it requires a specific code, I tried it also in other test blogs but I have the same problem :(

    • http://thebloggingbrew.com Jessica Slaughter

      Hmm…this may be a bit of a stretch, but back up your template and try this:

      Go into your post and remove the “style=”margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;” from the <a> tag for your image if you see that there.

      Go to your CSS page and change

      .post-body img, .post-body .tr-caption-container {

      padding: 8px;

      }

      to

      .post-body img, .post-body .tr-caption-container {

      padding: 8px 0;

      }

      And then change your width from the 688 to 640. It seemed to work when I tried editing it, but hopefully it works when you change the code! If this doesn’t help I’m not sure what’s wrong, but good luck!!

      • http://www.thegeekyburrow.com Alice

        Thanks so much! I’m going to try it :)

  • http://www.selfknownblog.com Nicole Rose

    Thank you for this post! I’ve been wondering how to do this for-EVAH. :)

    • http://thebloggingbrew.com Jessica Slaughter

      Of course! I’m so glad it was helpful for you!!