How to Restore the Blog Template

I share "How to backup Blogger template" with two Methods. Now you have a backup of your Blogger template. Now you can make changes to your template and if anything goes wrong you can simply restore the template.

How to Restore the Blog Template

In this time, I also share with two methods for restoring the blog template.

Method (1)

I think you have any problem. So, you try to restore your template. Now, you are still in Blogger and logging in. No problem!
(1) If you are log out, log in again to www.blogger.com .
(2) Go to your blog Dashboard by clicking your blog name.

(3) In your blogs dashboard's left side menu, select Template.

(4) Now in the top right corner you can see Backup/Restore button, Click it.

(5) Open the new box and select Browse button.

(6) When File Upload dialog box is open, search and choose your backup template file and hit the Open button.

(7) Wait a little time for Uploading. When the upload is complete, the Backup / Restore box is automatically closed.

(8) Check and View your Template Change.

Method (2)

This method is use when you backup with my backup method (2).
(1) I believe you, to start the first three step. If you not sure, see in method (1) section.
(2) When you reached the Template section, hit the Edit HTML button.

(3) Don't afraid, select all of your code and Delete (click anywhere of code section and press Ctrl+A and press Delete key.)

(4) Now, minimize your browser windows and open your save backup template code file (which is you get in Backup method (2)) and select all codes and then copy this.

(5)Go to your browser windows and paste the code in the Code area (which area is you deleting the codes)
(6) And then Save your Template.
Checking and View your Blog.
That is all of my sharing.
Thank!

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How to backup Blogger template

This is very useful and important for all Blogger. All blogger will change their blog Template for many reason, which they change style, color, size, communication, plug in, and other. The blog Template is very sensitive. We must carefully change any Code from this.

Are you planning to make changes to your Blogger template?
But before making changes to your Blogger template you must first backup your Blogger templates. Backup is really essential for Bloggers. When editing there are chances for your template to crash and it will affect the complete site layout. At that instance you can revert it to your previous template by restoring it from backup. Backing up Blogger template is really simple as you can see below.

How to backup Blogger template

Method (1)

(1) Log in your Blog at www.blogger.com
(2) In your Blogger Home, Click on your Blog Name (This is you want to Backing up)

(3) In your blogs dashboard's left side menu, select Template.

(4) Now in the top right corner you can see Backup/Restore button, Click it.

(5) Open the new box and select Download full template.

(6) New dialog box open, choose the Save File and hit the OK .

(7) When download complete, you open the download file location on your Computer. You can see the backup template file as "template-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xml" (Where, 'x' is represent the number). This file name is very difficult to recode for you. So, I advice to rename this file as you like simply. (I recode my backup Template file as Day/Time.)

Method (2)

This is simple method to backup your blog template. I like this method and use.
(1) Also in this method, you will act the step (1) to (3) are the same as Method (1). But you start the method (2) in this step (3) by Clicking the Edit HTML. See this scream shoot.

(2) When the HTML Editor is open, Click the " ◄ " for Expand your Code.

(3) Select all your Code (Click any where in the code area and press Ctrl+A , this easy)
and Copy your Code ( Mouse Right Click in selecting code area and select Copy menu (or) easily press Ctrl+C )

(4) Open your any text editor; such as Note Pad and Paste your copy codes. (this easy by press Ctrl+V )

(5) Save your text editor in your Computer. This Code file is YOUR BACK UP TEMPLATE file.

That for all of my post. Next post , I will share about "How to Restore the Blog Template".
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To Enable Third Party Cookies for Browsers

What are cookies? 

Here are a few over-lapping definitions;

• A small data file placed on your computer by a website that you visit.
• A piece of code placed in your browser by a website server.
• A text file placed on a hard drive to store and transmit information to the server of websites (re)visited from that browser / computer.

What is a (third-party) cookie?

• A cookie is a small script placed on the hard drive of  your computer by the server of a website that you visit. The cookie is placed there for the purpose of recognising your specific browser / computer combination, were you to return to the same site.

All cookies have an owner which tells you who the cookie belongs to. The owner is the domain specified in the cookie.
The word "party" refers to the domain as specified in cookie; the website that is placing the cookie. So, for example, if you visit widgets.com and the domain of the cookie placed on your computer is widgets.com, then this is a first-party cookie. If, however, you visit widgets.com and the cookie placed on your computer says stats-for-free.com, then this is a third-party cookie.

As Blogger becomes both easier to use, and more full of features, it becomes an application with more code that runs on our computers.
The code on our computers requires both cookies and scripts, installed on our computers as we use the various Blogger utilities. The cookies and scripts are increasingly susceptible to damage, from improperly implemented layered security.
Cookies and scripts are considered separately, and differently, for each different browser.

How to Enable 

Internet Explorer
To Enable Third Party Cookies in Internet Explorer 7
1. Click on "Tools" on the menu bar and then click on "Internet Options".
2. Click on the "Privacy" tab. Select the "Advanced" button under "Settings". The "Advanced Privacy Settings" window should now open.

3. Check the "Override automatic cookie handling" box so that you now have access to the "First-party Cookies" and "Third-party Cookies" options.
4. Select "Accept" for "Third-party Cookies".

Mozilla FireFox
To Enable Third Party Cookies in FireFox 3
1. Click the "Tools" menu
2. Click "Options..."
3. Select the "Privacy" menu
4. Check the "Accept third-party cookies"
5. Make sure "Keep until" is set to "they expire"

Chrome
To Enable Third Party Cookies in Google Chrome 12
1. Select the Wrench (spanner) icon at the top right
2. Select "Options"
3. Select the "Under the Hood" tab
4. Select "Content settings" in the "Privacy" section

5. Uncheck "Block sites from setting any data".

Safari
To Enable Third Party Cookies in Safari 4
1. Click the "Safari" menu
2. Click "Preferences..."
3. Click the "Security" menu
4. For "Accept cookies" select "Always"

That all.
The browsers programs are update anytime. So, some setting are change. If you have any problem for this, connect to me.

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Comment Box for Blogger

Today, I am very afraid because my blog have no comment box. I can't find the comment box under my blog post. I do not change any code from blog's HTML.
I search about this and troubleshooting this. I share about how to check and reset the blog to show the comment box.
There are many reason for this problem, but I make two step easily.

First Check;

I check Comment Location Setting as follow;
Go to Blogger and Log in my blog.
Click my Blog name and proceed to Settings >> Posts and comments (which is left side of the window)
In the right side of the windows Comments section will show.
You must check the Comment Location. There are four type of location.
(1) Embedded : This loads the comments under the post article.
(2) Full page : This loads a whole new Full Page which shows the comments.
(3) Popup window : This loads the comments in a Popup Window.
(4) Hide : This hide the comment box from blog.
You can choose upper three types but don't choose the last type. If you choose the Hide setting, there are no comment box in your blog post.

Second Check;

I check my posts for comment box well show. At some post, the comment box still hide. I checking the post with hide comment.
Go to Posts from left side and click Edit switch under the required post title.
Left side of the post editor window, you will see Options and click on this.
You must choose Allow from Reader comments section. If you choose "Don't allow, show existing" or "Don't allow, hide existing" , the comment will not show or block in your post.

Click under Done button and Update your post.
That all of my checking and I can see all comment in my blog.
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Removing Showing post with label..

In Blogger, we set the posts with suitable label. The label is helpful for visitors when they search the post as require. When I click in a label, the blogger filters the posts tagged with that particular label. This is very good feature for blog. Unnecessarily, I don't need a big box saying the "Showing posts with label ......... Show all posts". I hate this feature.

So, I remove this feature from my Blog. If you also unlike this feature, you can also remove this as follow;

Steps

1. Log in to your blogger account
2. Go to Template >> Click Edit HTML
3. Using Ctrl+F  search the following part of code : (Click anywhere inside the editor and press CTRL + F )

<b:includable id='status-message'>
<b:if cond='data:navMessage'>
<div class='status-msg-wrap'>
<div class='status-msg-body'>
<data:navMessage/>
</div>
<div class='status-msg-border'>
<div class='status-msg-bg'>
<div class='status-msg-hidden'><data:navMessage/></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div style='clear: both;'/>
</b:if>
</b:includable>

4. When you find above code lines, you recode the code line number in your mind. Copy the below codes and replace in above code. (If you have more confidence over Edit HTML, you can Delete the above codes and Add the below code same place.)

<b:includable id='status-message'>
<b:if cond='data:navMessage'>
<div>
</div>
<div style='clear: both;'/>
</b:if>
</b:includable>

5. Save your Template and View your Blog. You must checking this feature by clicking your any Label.
Thank!

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