Blogger labels help organise blog posts into categories, making it easier for readers to find related content. However, there may be times when you want to remove an unwanted label from your blog, especially when reorganising your categories or cleaning up old labels.
If you have many posts using the same label, removing it individually from every post can be time-consuming. This guide explains how to find posts carrying a particular label and remove it.
Step 1: Log in to Your Blogger Dashboard
- Open Blogger.
- Sign in using your Google account.
- Select the blog you want to manage if you have multiple blogs.
Step 2: Open Your Blog Posts
- On the left-hand menu, click Posts.
- You will see a list of published posts and drafts on your blog.
- Locate the label you want to remove from your posts.
Step 3: Filter Posts by Label
- Click the label filter or dropdown menu above the posts list.
- Select the label you want to remove.
- Blogger will display posts associated with that particular label.
This allows you to identify all posts carrying the unwanted label.
Step 4: Select the Posts
- Click the checkbox at the top of the posts list to select the displayed posts.
- If Blogger displays multiple pages of posts, repeat the selection process on each page.
- Make sure you have identified all posts from which you want to remove the label.
Step 5: Remove the Label
Blogger provides bulk label-management tools, but the available options may not include a direct way to remove an existing label from multiple selected posts.
If you cannot find a bulk-remove option, open each post individually:
- Click the post title.
- Locate Labels in the right-hand post settings panel.
- Remove the unwanted label while keeping any other labels you want to retain.
- Click Update to save the changes.
Repeat this process for the remaining posts.
Step 6: Verify That the Label Has Been Removed
- Return to the Blogger Posts dashboard.
- Open the label filter again.
- Select the label you removed.
- Check whether any posts are still associated with it.
If no posts appear, the label is no longer assigned to any posts.
Important Things to Remember
- Removing a label does not delete the blog posts.
- Other labels attached to the posts should remain unchanged.
- Removing a label from posts is different from deleting a post.
- If the label is still assigned to other posts, it will continue appearing in your Blogger label list.
Conclusion
Removing unwanted labels is a useful way to keep your Blogger website organised. Although Blogger provides bulk tools for managing posts, it does not always offer a straightforward bulk label-removal option. For blogs with hundreds or thousands of posts, an automated solution using the Blogger API may be more efficient than manually editing every post.