Before editing your Blogger blog's template it is important to first make a backup copy of the template. Doing so will allow you to restore the template in case you make a mistake. This post will outline how to backup and restore a Blogger template.
Imagine you have a look at your blog and realize you would like to make some changes to how it looks. You go ahead and open your template in Blogger and quickly switch to the template's HTML editor.
You expand all the widgets so you can see all of the code and begin editing. After some time, you save the template and open you blog in a new window to preview your changes. As you blog is rendered in your web browser, you are shocked to see that your entire blog layout is messed up.
You quickly switch back to the HTML editor to correct what you had done, but you can't seem to find all the changes, or at least change the template back to how it was originally.
Many people who edit their template have faced a fate similar to was was described above. Once good piece of advice when editing your Blogger template is to always backup the template before making changes.
Blogger makes it very easy for you to backup your template. You can do it as often as you need. To backup your template, use the following steps:
- Open up your dashboard in Blogger, so you can see a list of all your blogs.
- Under the blog that has the template you want to backup, click the "Layout" link.
- Once the "Page Elements" for your template is displayed, click the "Edit HTML" link to view the HTML code for the template.
- Click the "Download Full Template" link above the editor to download a copy of you template to your local computer.
With your template safely backed up onto your local computer, you can now edit your blog's template without any worries. If you make an unrecoverable mistake editing the template, you can easily restore the template by using the following steps:
- Open the HTML editor for your blog's template.
- Click the "Browse" button and then navigate to the template on your local computer.
- Click the template file, and then click the "Open" button.
- Back on the HTML editor page, click the "Upload" button to upload your template into Blogger.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the "Save Template" button to accept your template changes.
Once you have done that, your backed up template will now have been restored and you can try making the changes again. If you make a mistake again, your backed up template is still located on your local computer for another restore.
