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How to edit your Theme in Blogger

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This article is about how to edit your theme in Blogger. It supports many other articles on this site, which suggest specific theme changes needed to solve particular problems.    Note that until early 2017, themes were called templates.   In practise, "edit your template" and "edit your theme" mean the same thing. In Blogger, a theme is a file which controls how your blog are displayed on the screen when someone reads it using a browser or a mobile device.   Themes used to be called templates, but were renamed "themes" in early 2017. Previously, I've looked at whether it's a good idea to edit your Blogger theme / template or not.   Because themes are the same thing as templates, the same principles apply to editing your theme. For many people, editing the theme is simply something which they need to do, because it's the only way to do what they want ( remove the attribution , show a gadget on the homeppage only , add a Facebook like button t...

How to find things in Blogger's Theme editor

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This article explains how to find things (gadgets or text) in the Theme editor in Blogger. Very often when you are editing your Theme in Blogger, you need to find particular text. For example, you might need to find all places where  "</head" appears, so you can add something to the very next line.   Or you might want to find the code for a particular gadget (aka widget), so that you can put a conditional-formatting statement around it. There are now two tools you can use to find items in the Theme editor: The Jump to Widget tool if you are looking for a Widget The Find bar if you are looking for a text string. More information about using each of these is given below. How to use the Jump to Widget tool First, you need to find out the exact name for the widget / gadget that you need to find the code for.    (See Finding a gadget's name for a tip on how to do this). Then, inside the Theme editor (see Editing your Blogger Theme for how to get there), just choo...