Overview
Blogger is one of the oldest blogging platforms out there, and while it doesn't offer subscription or newsletter functionality itself, it only takes a few minutes to connect it to your Buttondown newsletter. If you complete this process successfully, every Blogger page on your blog will end with a subscription form.
To do this you must use gadgets, which is Blogger's term for arbitrary code blocks or pieces of functionality.
Embedding a subscription form
- Log into your Blogger account and navigate to the Layout section.
- Click Add a gadget, and then HTML/Javascript. A popup appears.
- Enter a Title and Content. Type "Buttondown" in the Title page.
- Navigate to Buttondown's Building your subscriber base docs and scroll to the section titled Embedding an HTML form. In that section, there is a code snippet starting with
<form. - Copy that code snippet to your clipboard and paste it into the Content section in Blogger.
- Click Save.
You can now move that gadget to wherever you want in Blogger. We recommend putting it in the footer so that people can subscribe after they read.
You can watch this video for a walkthrough of these steps.