Easy Steps to Install a Blogger Template

From time to time, you may feel the need to upgrade your blogger blog by installing a new template. The following procedures are the steps for the correct installation. It’s an easy step and will only take 10-15 minutes maximum of your time. It could get a little complicated along the way depending on the new template you like to incorporate, but you will surely go through it with just a little know-how knowledge about templates. It is highly advisable though, to back up your blogger blog before doing any changes just in case there are unforeseen errors.

Step No. 1 – Save a copy of your old template. The common mistake of bloggers changing their templates for the first time is not being able to copy or download the current template they are using. You can save it in your computer so that you always have an option to go back and will serve as your back up.

Step No. 2 – Upload a new template. Navigate on the edit section of your blogger page and click on ‘browse’, and then run through some templates that you have downloaded already. It could be in zip or rar file. Then click ‘open’, and hit the ‘upload button’. In most cases, you will bump into a prompt that says ‘widgets will be deleted’.

Step No. 3 – Save your widgets. These are page elements that you have on your current template and will be deleted after the changes. You don’t want to lose all those widgets after working so hard to arrange it on your old page. Click on the widgets, copy each code and paste it or save it in your computer.

Step No. 4 – Confirm and save. This is the point of no return. At this step, your blogger will run the changes including the deletion of your old widgets but not your blogger blog. You will get a message saying that the new template has been applied successfully.

Always remember to incorporate the codes of old widgets or page elements that you saved in your computer if you want to have them on your new template. To do this, just copy and paste the ‘.xml file’ to the text editor page. Click on upload. Hopefully, your blogger blog will be updated with the new template. Congratulations on your new blogger look!