Change Post Formatting According to Author.

If you have a Team Blog made up of two authors you can change the formatting of the posts written by one author to differentiate them from the other author's posts. In a Team Blog the About Me Profile widget is replaced by a Contributors List widget. This lists the name of the authors linked to their profiles.



Note down the names since we will use one of them in implementing this hack...........

Step 1. DEFINE THE STYLE

The style of the text and the background color are defined in the CSS Part of the Template. So we will paste the following code in the Template (You can add more style parameters if you want to) :


#author1 p{
margin:.25em 0 0;
color:#CC3300;
text-decoration:bold;
background:#aad4ff;
}


Login at Blogger.com and click Layout link on Dashboard. On Page Elements tab click Edit Html subtab of Layout tab. In Edit Html tab click Download Full Template link to backup your Template to PC. Copy and Paste the code given above immediately above ]]></b:skin> tag in the Template Code box. Save Template.

Step 2. IMPLEMENT THE STYLE

First step here is to expand the Widgets Template. To do this click the Expand Widgets Template Checkbox on top right of the Template Code box. Scroll down in Template Code box to this code in the Blog Posts expanded widget code :

<div class='post-header-line-1'/>
<div class='post-body entry-content'>
<div class='post-body'>
<p><data:post.body/></p>


CHANGE ABOVE CODE TO :


<div class='post-header-line-1'/>
<div class='post-body entry-content'>
<b:if cond='data:post.author == "vin"'>
<div id='author1'>
<p><data:post.body/></p>
</div>
<b:else/>
<p><data:post.body/></p>
</b:if>


Instead of 'vin' put in the profile name of an author of the blog EXACTLY AS IT APPEARS ON THE CONTRIBUTOR's LIST WIDGET ON THE BLOG.



Save Template. Clear Cache and View Blog.