Blogger: How to Add Merlin's Lemonade Stand to Your Blog

Merlin's Lemonade Stand = Followers Gadget.

I call it "Merlin's Lemonade Stand". 🤔 Because we don't follow a lemonade stand, it's a stand. And it belongs to Merlin. Double bafflements.

Like following a building? Oi, I follow this post office for days! It doesn't move.

For our information, I am operating with the literal, original, physical sense of follow. As in to go after something in motion.

Let's go metaphorical.

Steps

On blogger.com dashboard, we go to Layout menu.
Then, depends on your chosen template, we find and click the + Add a Gadget. Indeed, we would find it without searching it first.
Scroll down a bit on the pop-up menu to find Followers gadget ➡️ pick (click) that.
We can reposition the Followers gadget to suit our aesthetics and the gadget's visibility. ➡️ Hit Save.
[Optional] Then, we change the gadget title. Click the pencil icon on the gadget ➡️ clear the title ➡️ type "Merlin's Lemonade Stand".

The Followers gadget has Follow button. That button actually works. It works as a button. Which lets people add your blog to their Reading List in their Blogger dashboard, so they can see new posts when you publish them.

But sometimes, the Followers iframe can go blank. Well, it happens. If that happened, we should call that as Guess Gadget.

Merlin once babbled a series of symbolic and political prophecies, most of which sound like horoscopes written during a mead binge. The paraphrase goes like this: The future is hidden from man. The original babble was, Oi, Uvver, blimey Uvver! (Beard tangled in scrolls, staff made from old fence posts.)

🧙‍♂️🍹 Thou art refreshed.
Merlin

2025-07-25T08:06:30-07:00

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