News!! Changing The Theme-Name Inwards Add-On To Designer-Name

This article is around changing the theme-name inwards add-on to the theme-designer-name associated amongst your Blogger template.

If your weblog has a champaign of report from Google (and indeed the same affair applied to themes from many third-party champaign of report / template providers too), the code has a documentation subdivision at the top.

This subdivision gives the cite of the theme, inwards add-on to perchance the engagement it was created inwards add-on to the cite & website of the designer.



You laissez passer on the axe come upward across the header inwards your champaign of report past editing the champaign of report inwards the dark-green way.   Near the top of the code, but after   <b:skin><![CDATA[/*   inwards that house testament locomote something like this:

In blogs amongst Designer themes:

/* -----------------------------------------------
Blogger Template Style
Name:     Simple
Designer: Josh Peterson
URL:      www.noaesthetic.com
----------------------------------------------- */  

In blogs amongst Layout templates:

/* -----------------------------------------------
Blogger Template Style
Name:     565
Date:     28 Feb 2004
Updated by: Blogger Team
----------------------------------------------- */

In blogs amongst Custom themes:

/* -----------------------------------------------
Blogger Template Style
Name:     Rounders 2
Date:     27 Feb 2004
----------------------------------------------- */

Notice that inwards each case, the code is between /*  and  */
These characters country Blogger to procedure the words between them every chip comments inwards add-on to non to demonstrate them when the blog-post is turned into a web-page for your readers.

If yous lot construct changes to your weblog champaign of report , it's a actually skillful regard to construct roughly notes around this inwards the documentation section, hence that people who await at it later on (including you!) know what you've done inwards add-on to why.  For example:

/* -----------------------------------------------
Blogger Template Style
Name:     Simple
Designer: Josh Peterson
URL:      www.noaesthetic.com
Updates:   August 2010:  removed shadow roughly outer torso border - every chip per instuctions from XXX (because it looks ugly inwards IE)
----------------------------------------------- */

But every chip expert every chip this, yous lot laissez passer on the axe also make changes to the existing information, for example:

/* -----------------------------------------------

Blogger Template Style

Name:     Simple

Designer: Josh Peterson inwards add-on to Freda Frog

URL:      www.noaesthetic.com

----------------------------------------------- */  

Any elements inwards Blogger (eg the attribution gadget) that exercise the existing data testament option upwards the alter yous lot make.   In the representative above, the attribution gadget becomes:

You laissez passer on the axe also alter the champaign of report / template name, for representative

/* -----------------------------------------------
Blogger Template Style
Name:     Not-quite-so-Simple
Designer: Josh Peterson inwards add-on to Freda Frog

URL:      www.noaesthetic.com
----------------------------------------------- */

Changing the theme-name has ii side effects:

• It makes it possible to successfully delete the attribution gadget (by either unlocking inwards add-on to removing it, or commenting out the code) and

• Your weblog may non acquire whatever new features inwards add-on to bug-fixes that Blogger apply to existing themes (ref Disadvantages of editing your theme).

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