It is absolutely necessary to backup your blogger template if you want to make any changes to it. Fortunately blogger has an inbuilt feature that allows a user to download a blog’s template, so that when something bad happens, the original template can be recovered easily.
In order to backup a template it should be downloaded to a user’s computer.
Steps to download or backup your template for a Blogger blog
1.Go to Blogger Dashboard. Click on Layout. Click on the Edit HTML tab for your Blog.
2. Right Click on the Download Full Template link. It is important that you save the file as something meaningful as blogname.xml.
Steps to Restore a Blogger template
You can restore your blog template, if and only if you have backed it first.
1.Go to Blogger Dashboard. Click on Layout. Click on the Edit HTML tab for your Blog.
2. Click on the Browse button and select the Blogger template you have backed up earlier. Click on the Upload button. You will see a confirmation from Blogger.
Originally posted on April 24, 2011 @ 5:35 pm