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Second quickedit pencil for Blogspot post

I have sometimes chased the quickedit pencil from the bottom of the post, to edit the post. Especially if you have many comments on a long blog post, the pencil is somewhere in the middle of the page, and can be a bit tedious to find. I have often thought, that only if the quickedit pencil would be at the top of the post...



Yesterday I saw a feature suggestion in Blogger forums for a second quickedit pencil. So someone else had chased the pencil, too. :) This finally gave me the push to make this simple hack. It adds a second quickedit pencil to the upper right corner of a post.







Installation is easy. Open your template html, click Expand Widget Templates, find line:


<b:includable id='post' var='post'>

And just after that line, add this:


<!-- extra quickedit pencil / MS-potilas -->
<span style='float:right;margin-right:-25px;'><b:include data='post' name='postQuickEdit'/></span>

or add this, if you want the extra pencil only to appear when post page is opened (not shown on front page):


<!-- extra quickedit pencil / MS-potilas -->
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<span style='float:right;margin-right:-25px;'><b:include data='post' name='postQuickEdit'/></span>
</b:if>

Save template.



Note, that quickedit pencils are displayed only when administrator is logged in and viewing the blog. So you won't see the pencils on this blog, just on your own blog(s).