How to import external template to the blogger?

There are some templates available for free to the user by blogger but those templates might not be sufficient for many of the users. So, we may want to import our own template or the template downloaded from external sources. There are many websites which provide templates for free of cost. So, in this article we will be discussing  the way of importing templates from external sources.

The following steps should be followed:-

Step 1: Download the desired  template from external links.

For example: https://btemplates.com/ , https://templated.co/ etc

Step 2: Extract the zip file in a folder (if the downloaded file is zipped) and find the file with '.xml' extension.

Step 3: Log in to your blogger account and select option 'theme' from the left side bar. Then click on button 'Backup/restore' available on right top corner as shown in figure below:

Step 4: When the button is clicked, a window is popped which looks like as shown in figure below:

Click on button 'choose file' and then open the extracted template's folder (downloaded from the external links). Choose the file with '.xml' extension and click on upload button. You can back up your current template by clicking on the button 'Download theme' before uploading the '.xml' file so that you can use your current template later on if you didn't like the downloaded template.

Step 5: The new template will be implemented by now but you the default widgets of the template might not be according to your requirement so go back and click on option 'layout' and manage the widgets according to your wish.

Note: If there is slider for picture then to modify it or to add your own picture, you need to edit the HTML code. Similarly, to add menu, sub menu also we need to modify HTML code. Some templates clearly mention the place for modification of code for picture slider, menu and so on.

The steps for modifying the code for addition of menu, sub menu, picture's slider, fevicon and so on will be elaborated in next posts under Tech articles. We will also discuss how to add desired number of ads in between the posts from google adsense.

Remember some templates might not work in blogger so in that case go for next template.