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News!! Creating A Shadow Blog

This article is almost how to laid upward a "shadow blog" - 1 that has the same construction as our really one, but less content, together with which used entirely for testing.   

Overview

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Sometimes, before you laid upward a major alter to a spider spider web log (or even out a nipper alter to a popular one), you testament wish to examination it before applying it to your blog.

You may even out wish to larn 1 stride further than getting your posts right before you liberate them, together with genuinely examination the "look" of posts before you spot them into your principal re-create blog.  (After you practise got got your post service service halt inward your shadow-blog, you tin sack sack re-create the HTML from the shadow to the principal re-create blog, therefore that the formatting etc is all carried over:   See How to re-create an somebody post for details)


Influenza A virus subtype Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 shadow blog has is a family where you tin sack sack practise this.   It has
  • The same structure as your really one, and
  • Just plenty content therefore that you tin sack sack practise only virtually changes together with examination if they're working properly:  to a greater extent than oft than non two or iii to a greater extent than posts than the maximum you acquaint on any on a covert is enough.

To laid upward a shadow blog, you need to
  • Create a new, private, spider spider web log alongside the same base of operations of operations template as your existing blog
  • Copy your existing template into it, and 
  • Copy only virtually of your existing posts into it.


Detailed Instructions:

1  Make a spider spider web log to business office with:

Find out what template your existing spider spider web log is using

In your existing blog, download a copy of your template.   (See the offset purpose of Editing your template, if you're unsure how to practise this.)

Save the downloaded file somwhere (remember where, you'll need it below).

Go to the Dashboard, together with click Create a Blog.  Give it a cite together with URL like "testing-YOURBLOGNAME"

When Blogger asks which template to use, choose your electrical menstruum template, (if it's on the listing shown), or only any template.

After the spider spider web log has been created, press Start Blogging, together with therefore larn to the Settings / Basic tab:   Set "Add your spider spider web log to our listings?" together with "Let search engines honor your blog?" to No   (since this spider spider web log is only for your testing).

Go to Layout / Pick New Template   (or to Layout / Designer Template if your existing spider spider web log has a designer template), together with Pb the same template that your existing spider spider web log has.

Go to the Templates tab, together with Pb Backup/Restore.

Click Choose File, together with navigate to the downloaded template that you made earlier.



2  Get only virtually posts to examination with:

Choose whether to import all your existing posts into the testing blog, or only copy only virtually somebody posts

Any links inward your posts won't live re-directed, therefore when you are testing, you testament honor that clicking any internal links inward your posts testament practise got you back to your principal re-create blog. If you are moving all posts, you could avoid this past times times opening the export file alongside a text-editor, together with doing a fine/replace to alter the principal re-create blog's URL to the testing blog's URL inward any links.



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Import all your existing posts

Copy an somebody post.

What template does your spider spider web log use?

Editing your template

Polish your posts before you liberate them to the world

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