Removing double (duplicate) blog posts in Blogger

Are you seeing double? I mean as in duplicate or repeat posts on your Blogger blog? Instead seeing of a normal set of posts like this:

Post 1 Post 2 Post 3 ... (from top to bottom),

are you seeing two identical post columns, like this?

Post 1 Post 2 Post 3 Post 1 Post 2 Post 3

or duplicate posts inside a posts column, like this?

Post 1 Post 1 Post 2 Post 2 Post 3 Post 3

Anyway neither mode is good for your readers, both are equally unacceptable. It’s wise for you to fix this double trouble on the double.

Here we go,

1. Duplicate posts columns

The first and the more common one is duplicate posts columns. The second column looks exactly like the first one, complete with feed link and blog pager. The second column usually comes right under the first, like so:

Post 1 Post 2 Post 3 Post 1 Post 2 Post 3

This error is caused by duplicate Blog gadget. It is most likely occurred after you replaced your original template with a third party template.

To remove the duplicate, all you have to do is remove the extra Blog gadget. But I somehow think you already knew that. After all did you not notice there are two Blog Posts widgets in the Layout page? The problem was you couldn’t remove either of them because there was no Remove button (which is normal for a Blog widget).

So how do you remove a Blog gadget then? By deleting the Blog widget code in your blog template, that’s how.

1. Go to Template > Edit HTML.
2. DO NOT tick the Expand Widget Templates checkbox.
3. Find and delete the following line in your HTML code:

   <b:widget id='Blog2' locked='false' title='Blog Posts' type='Blog'/>

   or

   <b:widget id='Blog11' locked='false' title='Blog Posts' type='Blog'/>

4. Click SAVE TEMPLATE button to save.
5. You will be asked whether to keep the widget or delete it. Choose to delete by clicking DELETE WIDGETS button.
6. Done.

2. Duplicate posts in a single column

This is a less common variation of duplicate posts. Each duplicate post comes right after the original post, and they are confined within the same post column, like this:

Post 1 Post 1 Post 2 Post 2 Post 3 Post 3….

This is due to a corrupted Blog widget template, probably caused by a mistake you made while tweaking the widget template.

The easiest way to fix this is by resetting the Blog Posts widget.

Enjoy!