Thursday, April 30, 2009

How to Backup / Restore blogger Template?


If you are worried about how to take the back up of the HTML template of my blog before making any changes in the HTML template. Here are some very simple steps to backup and restore HTML template of the blog.

Backup HTML template

  • Login to blogger.com and you are at blogger Dashboard
  • Here click on the Layout link of the blog for which you want to backup HTML template
  • Now you are at Layout->Page Elements of you blog
  • Here click on the Edit HTML link in the tab
  • And you are at Layout->HTML Template as shown in bellow image
  • Now click on Download Full Template link and it will ask you to save some .xml file save this file at your computer and this file is backup of your blog's HTML template
  • You can use this file in future to restore HTML template (check following steps to know how to restore blogger template)
Restore blogger template
  • Login to blogger.com and you are at blogger Dashboard
  • Here click on the Layout link of the blog for which you want to backup HTML template
  • Now you are at Layout->Page Elements of you blog
  • Here click on the Edit HTML link in the tab
  • And you are at Layout->HTML Template as shown in bellow image
  • Here click on Browse button select previously backed up .xml file of your blog's template from your computer
  • And then click on Upload button.
  • Note: If you have added any new widget / gadget after backing up template then it will give you warning that those widgets / gadgets will be removed. If you are OK with removal of new widgets / gadgets then click on CONFIRM & SAVE or else you can click on CANCEL and cancel restoring of the previously backedup template
  • That's done with restoring of the backed up template

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