Saturday, 13 July 2013

Easy Ways to Change or Edit Blogger Template


Blogger provide some pre-installed blogger template but they are few and not so attractive. You might have seen some others blogspot blogs that looks like a professional websites. To make your blogspot into cool looking professional blog you need to add custom blogger template. Unlike wordpress that needs you to upgrade level to add custom template, you can add custom blogger template without any charges thats why blogger is well-known for its free service.There are two situations in this guide explain below:

How to change or upload blogger template

Update pre-installed blogger template with another pre-installed template


  1. Just click on the template you want to choose (located below edit html option) and a new dialog box appear in the bottom of that box you see a apply this option click on it. 
  2. Your new blogger template will be installed which you wanted to use.

Add new custom blogger template

Look at the List of free blogger templates collection sites. They are compressed in .zip or .rar so extract it. You will get file name .xml(file type) in the end.
Got your favorite template? then we should move to our next step: implementation of free custom blogger template on your blog.



  1. Click the template option
  2. Select backup/restore option on top right
  3. A new dialog box appears in which select choose your file or browse option locate your file double click on the file
  4. file name will be seen upon the upload button
  5. click upload, let it load and automatically the dialog box disappear and work is done.
  6. Now, you have uploaded a new template to your site.


How to change blogger template without losing widgets

Sometimes when you change one template to another template, something goes wrong because of direct changes in blogger template and affects your whole blog design. So to prevent it first change it to simple blogger template and then upload your new custom template. It this way, your blog design will  be safe. The widget may be placed in other places but they doesn't get deleted, you just need to change their position.

How to edit blogger template

For becoming a problogger, you need to update your blogger template with new template. In this method, there are two situtions in which Edit your pre-installed blogger template and edit template you have downloaded included.


Some blogger templates needs navigation menu,social networking sites,etc. update manually. You don't need any coding skill, It doesn't requires any coding. You just need to follow instruction as per your template.
open the .xml file with wordpad for easy editing. edit what ever you want and save it, don't 'save as' it



 Edit from new html editor for blogger template


  1. Click template tab and you will see edit html option, click it.
  2. New dialog box appear, select all the codes and paste it in notepad or wordpad.
  3. Edit the thing you want and copy the whole codes again.
  4. Paste that codes in the box from which we have copied it earlier.
  5. Don't

Edit new custom blogger template offline


  1. Click template tab and back/restore button
  2. Download full template
  3. Open .xml file in wordpad and edit the thing you want in it
  4. Follow step 1. and choose your file option
  5. Locate your file
  6. Press upload button.


The best use of this is you can do it offline as it may take high data to edit it online. This method is easier than online edit html. Enjoy your new template :)

Note: Some blogger templates needs some simple editing. kindly follow the instruction provided  while downloading template or in extract files or read how to edit blogger template.

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