Google Blogger Labels: Removing Info Shown When Searching by Label

If your Google Blogger site uses label-based searches or menu items, clicking through to a label page adds a status message banner at the top of the results (“Showing posts with label X”). It’s harmless functionally, but it looks unpolished if you’re trying to keep the site’s design clean and professional — and it’s controlled by one specific block of template code.

Before you start

Always take a backup of your template before editing it — Blogger’s template editor has no built-in undo across sessions, so a bad edit without a backup means rebuilding the template from scratch.

Making the change

1. Log into your Blogger dashboard, go to Template, then click Edit HTML.
2. Use Ctrl+F to search the template code for:

<b:includable id='status-message'>

3. You’ll find it expands to this block:

<b:includable id='status-message'>
<b:if cond='data:navMessage'>
<div class='status-msg-wrap'>
<div class='status-msg-body'>
<data:navMessage/>
</div>
<div class='status-msg-border'>
<div class='status-msg-bg'>
<div class='status-msg-hidden'><data:navMessage/></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div style='clear: both;'/>
</b:if>
</b:includable>

4. Replace that entire block with this simplified version, which keeps the conditional structure Blogger expects but strips out the visible message markup:

<b:includable id='status-message'>
<b:if cond='data:navMessage'>
</b:if>
</b:includable>

5. Save the template.

Reload a label page on your site and the status message banner should be gone, while the rest of the label/search functionality continues to work as normal.

Screenshots

Still Works in 2026

Blogger remains a live, actively maintained Google product, and this template-editing approach is unchanged — the status-message includable block still lives in the same place in the template’s HTML, and the Template > Edit HTML workflow described above still works exactly as documented. As with any raw template edit, keep the backup you take before editing, since Blogger still has no built-in version history/undo across sessions in its HTML editor.