A while back I wanted to change my blog design and found my template designer was not working anymore. I thought I had broken it by editing the html and css. So I started from scratch and installed a standard blogger template but found it was still not responding.
I googled this and googled it some more and found many more bloggers having the same problem but no fix. This drove me up the wall for a couple of weeks until I finally found the solution. It seems there is a bug in Blogger. When you disable the mobile template, like I did, it breaks the template designer. Simply turning it back on will not do the trick, you will also have to restore your template. I'm not sure this will work for everyone but here's how I fixed it.
Solution: broken blogger template designer
1. Login to the blogger dashboard
2. Before you start make a
full back up of your blog
3. Go to Template and click on the icon below Mobile
4. Select: Yes. Show mobile template on mobile devices. And save
5. Go to Template > Backup/Restore (in the right top corner)
6. Click on download full template > save file > ok
7. In the same popup window click Browse and upload the .xml template you just saved
8. Click on customize to go to the template designer, it should be working again
if is not working !!
ReplyDeleteDid you turn on the mobile template before restoring your template?
DeleteIf all else fails you can always start from scratch and choose a new template.
didn't work for me either. and unfortunately i can't start from scratch as all my widgets were on a computer that was stolen. any idea when blogger will fix it?
ReplyDeleteYou will have to restore your template otherwise it will never work. You can always open your widgets one by one and copy paste the content in a text editor. Once you restore your template you can paste them back.
DeleteNope, didn't work.
ReplyDeleteDidn't work for me either and any time I've started from scratch the same thing happens after a couple of hours to the new blog!!
ReplyDeleteI cant believe blogger have yet to fix these problems!! It is so utterly ridiculous!
Does this happen even when you leave the mobiel template on?
DeleteYes, i tried exactly what you said above to this blog:
ReplyDeletewww.happybloggerclaire.blogspot.co.uk
From what i can gather the problems occur when you customise the blog via CSS?
All i have done is centre the page list, centre the header image and remove the space where the blogger nav bar would sit.
Not really heavy customisation! But it really doesn't seem to like it.
i literally want to scream in frustration!!!
Its the same for all of my blogs (though i haven't tried the above fix on all of them yet).
That is strange because I have customized my css much more than that and it's still working. Sorry this didn't work for you.
DeleteThanks for your help and response anyway! Nice blog!
ReplyDeleteJust to check, what browser do you use?
I mostly use Firefox. How about you?
DeleteSafari. I might try firefox. I also might try making a new blog and never turn off mobile template...Redo my customisations and see if that works!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this nice post! Keep it up!!
ReplyDeleteAll websites templates at All website Tools