This quick guide will walk you through making a backup copy of your entire XML template. This will also allow you to save the data in your widgets for later re-installation. This guide is NOT for restoring your original template!
This is a very simple procedure and will take less than 2 minutes to do. First step is to navigate to your blogs front page so that you are looking at your actual blog, NOT the control panel pages. Next is to view the source code of the page itself, this can be done in two ways. You can either right click anywhere on the page and click on View Source in the pop up window or look on your browsers control bar and look for the word View. Clicking on that will show a drop down list and one of the selections is Source like in the image below.
Once you click on the word Source another window will open showing the entire contents of your template code like in the image below.
Click on the word File in the upper left hand corner and go down to the words Save As. Click on that and then another window will pop up. See the red arrow in the image below, that’s where you type in a name for your old template. Name it anything you want and click Save. Navigate to the folder of your choice on your computer so that you’ll know where it is for future reference.. And that’s it, you just saved a copy of your entire template contents to your computer!
To retrieve the contents of your widgets, you’ll need to open the file you just saved with Notepad, then look thru the file to pick out the sections you want to copy and paste back into your new template’s widgets. This part may take a bit of patience because there will be a lot of code in there. It may take a few minutes to find the parts you want.
Please note, this file can not be used to restore your original blog template, this is just intended to save the widget contents!
I hope this helps, comments are welcome!
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Installing Blogger XML Templates
This short guide will walk you through installing an XML Blogger template from a .txt file on your own computer.
The first thing you do is download the template from the website. If it’s in a .zip file, the next thing you must do is unzip the file, preferably into the same folder that you downloaded it to. This is very simple if you have a file decompressor program installed like Winzip or similar. Here’s a link to some free ones if you don’t have one installed: File Decompressors. Unzipping is easy, normally you can just right click on the file and then select Extract Here.
Once you’ve done that your file will be in a .txt format which can easily be opened in Notepad. It’s not necessary to open the file though, you can use the automated file uploader built into Blogger’s control panel. This makes it extremely easy to install a new template. BUT before you move on to the install you may want to do a complete back up of your template so that you don’t lose your links and buttons. Click here for an easy guide to doing just that: Back up your XML template widget data.
Once you’re satisfied with your backup, go to your blogs’s control panel and click on the Template tab, once that window opens click on the smaller Edit HTML tab just below it. What you’ll see is a page area like in the image below.
Then just click on the Browse button (arrow in photo above) and navigate to the unzipped file. Once the file name shows in the little window, click Upload. And that’s it! You’ve just changed your template the easy way!
I hope this guide helps, comments are welcome.
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