Backup and Restore Your Template - Blogger

Anytime you change a color, add a widget or "tweak" your header, you are altering your template, regardless if you are editing the HTML yourself. And every time you do, it's one more chance for the template to be FUBAR. Before you make any changes, you should always backup your template. Always. You never know when something will go wrong. I say 'when' because something will go wrong at some point. Murphy was right. You will smack yourself in the forehead and say, "What the %&*# is this?" Make it easier on yourself. Do a backup. Okay, lecture over.

Backing up and restoring your template is so easy, once you know where the buttons are. The directions are the same for both until you get to step 4.

1) Log into your Blogger account.

2) Click Template

On the left side of your screen, select Template

3) Click Backup/Restore

In the upper right hand corner of your browser is the button you're looking for

Here's where you choose to either:
4a) backup your template
4b) restore your template

4a) Backup Template

Choose Download full template. Another popup (from your computer this time) asks where to save the file. Choose a location you will be able to find again. Click save.

That's it. You have now backed up your template. Easy peasy.

So, what do you do if the unthinkable happens? No sweat. Since you did a backup, restoring is a snap. Follow the same steps above until you get to number 4. Instead of choosing to download your template, you need to upload the file you just saved to your computer.