Two Examples To Customize Blockquote Style In Blogger And WordPress

Blockquotes are usually used to indicate the quotation of a large section of text from external sources or highlight someone's quotes, thoughts in blog article.
Now day's every blogger started to using it on their blog to make blog article stand out and grab the reader’s attention.
Usually all blogging platform has a default styling for Blockquotes, but we should modify a default styling with something in relevance with your theme/template. So, this tutorial will show you how to customize blockquote style in Blogger and WordPress. along with it I'll present 2 stylish examples of customized blockquotes styles for your blog using CSS.
Many bloggers have a curiosity to know Is there an advantage or impact for SEO of blockquotes?

No! I don't think so, there are many probloggers uses blockquote on their blog and I haven't seen any example that tells me it can heart SEO. but it actually help you to rank well on Google. What do you say about it?

How To Customize Blockquote Style In Blogger/Blogspot:

To add customized blockquote style in blogger just navigate to Blogger Dashboard >>; Template >>; Edit HTML and Search for "< / head>" tag

 

Now choose one of the styles suggested below and copy the CSS code and paste it before the "< / head >" tag

Done! Save your template!

Now whenever you want to add blockquote style in your blog post just copy that text which you want to appear as a blockquote and hit icon as shown in below screenshot:

How To Customize Blockquote Style In WordPress Themes:

It's quite simple to add blockquote style in WordPress themes, you need to add the following codes to style.css or custom.css file of your theme. You can do this with another way just go to Appearance » Editor in your WordPress admin or edit.
Now, pick out on of the styles suggested below and design your blog/website for a better user interface. 

#BlockQuote Style 1: Simple

 

 In this example I have used Unicode for left double quote. you can increase the size of quotation mark just edit  font-size:4em;  with you size.

BlockQuote Style 1 For Blogger:

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BlockQuote Style 1 For WordPress:

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#BlockQuote Style 2: Using Dashed Border And Background Quote Image

 

In this example I have added dashed border around blockquote, Image for double quote and I have used Muli font from Google web fonts library.

 

BlockQuote Style 2 For Blogger:

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BlockQuote Style 2 For WordPress:

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Final Words!

So, this was the complete tutorial on how to customize blockquotes style in Blogger and WordPress. and I hope that you found it helpful and I’m sure it will benefit you a lot.

If you have any query's, or if I missed anything in this article please let me know, I would love to hear from you :)

Now tell me which is your favorite blockquote style?