Understanding and using Page Types in Blogger

Here is the motivation: You want to show only certain gadget for instance google friend connect bar at the top/bottom only on the index page or post page.

I would recommend the TE article (see below) first to understand the page type.

<p><data:blog.pageType/></p>

The code given as in TE, did not work with double quotation there...

I figured it was this problem:

&quot;index&quot;

versus

"index"

Once that was figured out, it was easy to understand:

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>

<data:title/>

<b:else/>

<a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl'><data:title/></a>

</b:if>
just simple if-else statement!

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Now the following code can be implemented in the body section, so that the item inbetween if tag is displayed only in home page.

It works!

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;item&quot;'>

this one is displayed only in home page.

</b:if>

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<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>

display this one only in post page


</b:if>

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Inspired by:
TE article: http://technicallyeasy.net/2009/12/understanding-blogger-page-types/

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>

<p>This sentence will only show on a post page.</p>

</b:if>

Converted to ht.ml code:
http://www.eblogtemplates.com/blogger-ad-code-converter/