Instructions

• How to install a Blogger Template?
• Why I can’t install blogger Templates? Blogger shows me an error.
• How can I customize The New template?
• How can I edit the menu of the new template?
• Why the date is shown as “undefined” and how to fix it?
• Why some or all images in my template disappeared or show “bandwidth exceeded”?
• How to make the comments form appeare after every post instead of a popup window?
• How to add my feeds of Feedburner to my blog?
• How to translate any template to another language?
• What should I do after I installing a new template?
• How to display the navbar again in blogger template?
• How do I log in to my blogger account without the navbar?
• How to display the last posts or comments on the sidebar?
• Is it allowed to remove / edit the credit for a bogger template?
• Some templates have this icon , What is this?
• I Uploaded new blogger template, why is it not published till now?

1. Download a Blogger template and unzipp (extract) it, You can use free unzip software from here.



2. Go to the Layout section in your blog (Dashboard → Design
   → Edit HTML ).
3. Backup your Current template (Download full Template).



4. Upload your template, it’s in —-.xml format.
5. Click “Upload” , Blogger may show you a warning to keep your current widgets, Just click “keep widgets”.
6. Enjoy your new blog design.

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There are several possible factors that cause an error Bx-xxxx:

• The code is directly copied, and Blogger did not interpret it.
• Some times blogger temporarily not accepting Blogger templates with certain codes or gadgets.

Possible solutions:

• Remove widgets or gadgets that come with the template downloaded.
• Clear your browser’s cookies.
• Try to upload the template with a different browser (Opera, Firefox, Chrome, etc).
• Don’t copy and paste the code directly, Just upload the xml file.
• Wait 24 hours and try again.

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Blogger navigation bar provides fast and easy way to log into your blogger account, and some templates coders remove this bar so you can always log in from blogger.com.

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For color and the font size, some Blogger templates offer an option to change it from the Dashboard (Dashboard → Layout → Fonts and Colors). Here you can see the result directly in the template.

Major changes in the templates needs at least a little CSS and HTML knowledge. A quick way to modify a template is to change the images in the CSS code, for other images with the same dimensions. That is the steps to change the header of a design, for example.

Additionally, some templates have their own settings instructions and customization, for more info, refer to the same download page of your template.

Note : The Next part is an update for the above question

Blogger recently announced “blogger templates designer”

This new blogger templates designer allows you to customize

• Templates.
• Background.
• Layout.
• fonts, colors.
• Advanced Customization.

And you can read full review about it here
New Blogger Templates Designer. The Full Guide.

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1. Most templates have a menu that can only be changed from the HTML (Dashboard → Layout → Edit HTML).
Refer to this tutorial for more info
Editing blogger top menu Links
Also see the instructions in your template for more information.

2. Some templates include a gadget to edit the menu directly
from the Dashboard (Dashboard → Layout → Page Elements).

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Probably because you do not choose the correct date format.
The format should be changed from the your dashboard (Dashboard → Settings → Formatting → Date Header Format) and usually the correct type is:
Sunday, 10 oct, 2009.

Or Read the instructions of your template located on the download page.

For more info, please read the following tutorial, Solving / Fixing The Undefined Date For blogger Time Stamp..

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images may suddenly disappear because:

• The images were removed from the original hosting.
• Use own domain (eg allblogtools.com).

Solution: Download the template from Allblogtools.com again, or from the page’s original author and re hosts the images on an external service such as Photobucket, or ImageShack Tinypic.

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Blogger recently added the ability to display Comments Form within the same post page, below the individual posts, if your template does not have the form there, you may need to manually add it or activate it.

To add it manually:

1. Enter in the code of your template (Dashboard → Layout → Edit HTML) and search for:

   <a expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'><data:postCommentMsg/></a>

2. Replace that code with the following:

   <b:if cond='data:post.embedCommentForm'>
           <b:include data='post' name='comment-form'/>
         <b:else/>
           <b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>
             <a expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'><data:postCommentMsg/></a>
           </b:if>
   </b:if>

To activate it:

1. Enter the options panel comments (Dashboard → Settings → Comments).
2. And in the “Comment Form Placement” section, select: Embedded below post.

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On the menu: Many templates show the feed in the top menu,
to change the default feed for feedburner, go to your template
code (Dashboard → Layout → Edit HTML) and search for:

<a expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl + &quot;feeds/posts/default&quot;'>

Replace this with:

<a href='Feedburner Account URL'>

Now, in the settings panel of the feed ( Dashboard → Settings → Site Feed) also add your Feedburner URL.

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Directly in the template code. (Dashboard → Layout → Edit HTML), with a really simple process:

1. Using the browser search, find the text you want translate.
2. Replaces that text with your translation.

The text within an image need to be changed in an image editor,
like Photoshop or Inkscape, and then replacing that image with the image translated.

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After installing a template, there are several things have to be checked, updates or modifications , we recommend you to read our all instructions in the template page or try to read the template’s author instructions page if found.

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Easy! Enter in the code of your template (Dashboard → Layout → Edit HTML) and search for:

#navbar-iframe {
   height:0px;
   visibility:hidden;
   display:none
}

Delete it and that’s it.

For More, please see the following tutorials,

• Code To Hide Blogger Nav Bar And Have It Reappear When You Hover Over It.
• How To remove or hide Blogger Navbar

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1. Enter the administrator page elements (Dashboard → Layout).
2. Add a new feed widget, with the following URL’s:

   To show the recent posts:

   http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

   To display the latest comments:

   http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default

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No, Most of blogger templates are licensed under a Creative Commons, GPL or similar license, so removing the credits would be using an illegal copy of the same. You can simplify the credits or relocate, but not remove them. Remember that the templates are free, so keeping the credits is a way to thank those who designed and / or adapt the template.

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Some templates have this icon , What is this?

We call them Free Premium Blogger Template and highlight it with this icon because have an excellent graphic quality, well designed for Blogger, bring additional features and are compatible with the major browsers (Firefox, Chrome, IE).

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Usually we receive a big number of templates, we try to publish as soon as possible and ensure a minimum quality in the published templates in AllBlogTools.com, some of the criteria that we use to approve a templates are:

• An acceptable graphic and technical quality.
• Compatible with most browsers.
• No installation errors or easy to correct.
• A license that allows distribution.

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