I have ditched my green blog clothes in favors of a blue one. My long search for a new template has finally ended. This used to be a dilemma for blogspot users. While those using wordpress have nice-looking templates, we, blogspot users, have to be contented of the few available. Sometimes, we just experiment tweaking the colors and the sizes just to make it appear different.
- Download a zipped file of your chosen template.
- Extract it on your hard disk making sure that you have the XML file.
- Go to your blogger dashboard and click page layout, then click “edit html”.
- Download a copy of your previous template. It is for contingency purposes.
- Go back to your page layout. Copy the html codes of all your widgets and paste them in word, wordpad or notepad. Label them properly as you may have difficulty in finding them. When you change template, plenty of the widgets will be deleted.
- If you have installed meta tags and scripts in your html, like those of PPP, google analytics, webmasters tools, etc…, copy these codes and remember where you placed them.
- Then go back to “edit html” and upload the xml file you extracted and downloaded earlier. It will prompt you and display the widgets that will be deleted.
- Proceed with the deletion.
- Save the template and then view your blog. You can also add those scripts and meta tags before saving the template. What usually remain are the blog posts, links, categories, headers, about me, and the archives.
- Then go back to the page layout and re-add those deleted page elements/widgets. Don’t forget to click on “save”.
So, there! I hope you will learn from this post. If you also know any short cut, please feel free to comment here. If you are not confident enough, try creating a dummy blog and follow the steps above. But if you are happy with your current template, keep it as it is. Happy blogging!
11 comments:
maayong laki jud nis Lazarus da. Great job on your template, and great choice of colors too. Real cool on the eyes.
Dropped by your blogcebuworld.com bai, still nothing? Ikiha na imong webhost oi ...
I like your new template. Thanks for the info because I'm seriously considering ditching my current template. There's just too many problems whenever I post a new entry. A lot of reformatting to do. I'm getting so tired of it.
Thanks btw for faving my site. I appreciate it. :)
thanks for the site! this will be very useful!
i am having a hard time changing my templates and looking for a free blogger template out there can be a little scary.
thanks for the info btw. :)
I've maintained my blogspot template for the longest time. Perhaps, it's high time for me to have it overhauled. When I have the time. Thanks for the hints.
bambit, nagkabuang pud ko pagsugod uy!
panaderos, there are plenty of blogger templates out there. maybe it's time for you to change na.
jho, try this.
zherwin, you can make a dummy blog and practice from there.
abaniko, three na ba yang template mo? parang yan na eversince eh.
laz! I changed my blogger template after following your guide :) thank you thank you :)
I tried to follow a step by step process before but never had the confidence to do it...I need to do it with somebody right beside me teaching me since I am so clueless with written instructions especially on anything techie...kaya I just asked Aleks to do it for me. Hehe.
you're welcome, bambit.
gypsy, natagalan din ako mag change kasi i never had the confidence. but i used one of my other blogs to experiment on. nung na perfect na, i implemented it here.
Wow... thanks for sharing.. I'll update mine when I have time.. SALAMUCH!
lazarus, do you know of a good blogger template that has tabs like wordpress?
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