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How to change Blogger Template without deleting widgets ?
One of the Major Problem Blogger users have is whenever they try to change their templates , They will loss their widgets even if they take backup of their template. After Changing their template , they need to add widgets again manually. It’s really annoying and time consuming process.
Is there any way to Backup our Widgets ?
yes . We can backup our widgets before changing our template.
How to backup Blogger Widgets ?
It’s really simple guys , before changing template search your widgets code without putting check in expand widgets box.
Select the widget code as shown in the image below.
Now save the widget codes shown in between yellow box to notepad. Copy and Paste all your widget codes.
After doing this Upload your New Template . After uploading you will get a message like this
At This stage don’t click Confirm & save tab. Rather search for the following code <b:widget id=’ , Now paste the widget codes you have saved immediately above or below the code in yellow
After adding the widget codes save your template.
That’s it ! Now you will have all widgets that you used in your previous blogger template.
How This works ?
Blogger will keep the widget content on their database with unique widget id.
I hope this hack will be very useful to you guys. Tell me your suggestions in our comment form , If you have any doubts ask there I will help you.
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22 Responses to “How to change Blogger Template without deleting widgets ?”
Was wondering if you could help me out, I was following your instructions when trying to switch over to my new template and every time I tried to repaste the old widget codes, where you say:
“search for the following code (b:widget id=) , Now paste the widget codes you have saved immediately above or below the code in yellow”
I get this error message:
We were unable to save your template
Please correct the error below, and submit your template again.
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: The element type “b:section” must be terminated by the matching end-tag “”.
I checked and there are still /end tags for all of the “b:section” tables.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
-A
I hope you are not closing the widget id
<b:widget id='HTML4' locked='false' title='Subscribe Now' type='HTML'/>
you need to put / before the > . Keep one thing in mind you must insert the widget ids only after you got this error message
" Widgets are about to be Deleted " .
you can see i am changing my templates often. I use this method to backup my widgets.
If you still have problems let me know. I will upload a video demo for you.
regards ,
Blogger Accessories
I followed the instructions correctly, but it not work. Where accurately to place the safe code?
Balbino de Araujo
Hi Jose Balbino ,
I will upload video instructions to these hack soon ( within 2 days ). So please wait.
regards,
Blogger Accessories
Hi Mohamed. After to test 4 times I obtained. It’s not difficult and work well. Some Gadgets duplicates only is that they must be removed. I’ll go to place tutorial in mine blog with the credits you. I am thankful for the attention.
Greetings ,
Balbino de Araújo
“Sorry about my English”
Hi Jose Balbino de Araujo ,
congrats Jose.
To help novice bloggers I created a video tutorial for this hack. You can see that tutorial here
http://www.revver.com/video/1108622/backup-blogger-widgets-while-changing-blogger-template/ .
You can embed this video in your Blog.
regards,
Blogger Accessories
wow…it’s really great…
I like this post…
thank’s for sharing..I’m gonna try and I’ll transalte it..
thank’s
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!
Hi Mohammed,
I’m trying to upload a new blogger template without losing my widget. I would love to follow your guide, but I’m being thrown off with the template I want. Instead of a stuffed file (I’m on a Mac) they are simply giving a code. If you could help me figure how to make this work, I would be greatly appreciative.
Here’s the template I want http://www.pyzam.com/bloggertemplates/details/happy-holidays-blue-ornaments
Here’s the blogspot blog I’d like to put it on http://minimariescorner.blogspot.com/
My email address is SelosMini at gmail
Thank you for your help, I look forward to hearing from you.
*Marie*
Nice! You can check my blog at http://www.diegoz.com.ar
If i change my blog template, then is it problem for google for indexing my blog as regular done by google.Is google delay for indexing my blog for any change in template
Assalam Walekum,
hey can you tell me the method to use google search box with option of searching my blog or web
Thanks for your solution but I can’t get the result desired. I can move all my widgets to my new template but all of the data are gone. So, what can I do to solve this problem?
It is interesting to note that some users have problem changing templates because of widget ids clashes. That is the ids in the template to be uploaded are identical to the existing ones. Read http://startclass0830.blogspot.com/2009/03/changing-template-in-blogger.html
Hey very valuable information for me every time i test a theme i keep losing widgets really helpful.
Much appreciated
Thank you. The video was very helpful!
Thank you worked or me.
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@Angela
Thanks Angela..
regards,
Mohamed Rias
@Alok
you are welcome my friend..
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i have a new template but i dont’ manage to change without losing my gadgets, help ?
what you want? msn, yahoo, gmail? pretty please ?
Hi Oana Nicoleta ,
You can add me to Google Talk , So that i can help you easily
My id : mohamedrias1103@gmail.com
regards,
Mohamed Rias
I just added you, hope will be at the same time on-line, ’cause i don’t know what’s the difference of time between us , but i’ll find you
thank you so much, you're really a big help tnx again xD.