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Customizing a blog template

A blog theme is made from a collection of templates that control the look of the blog. You can customize theme templates and save a new theme for a blog.

You must be a blog administrator to manage blog templates.
You can edit the templates that define the layout, colors and fonts of your blog. Before you can edit the templates for the theme, you must choose to customize the theme. Customizing theme templates involves editing the source HTML for the template files. You should only do this if you are comfortable editing HTML files.
Restriction: Only modification to the HTML is supported. Do not change any calls that retrieve data from the blog system or your blog may fail to work.
  1. Click the Edit My Blog tab.
  2. Click the Preferences tab.
  3. Click Theme.
  4. Choose the theme you want to customize and click the Customize button. The templates for that theme are now available for you to edit from the Templates page.
  5. Click Templates. The templates for the current blog display.
  6. Click Edit to modify a template.
  7. Save changes you make to the template.
  8. Click Remove to remove a template. You cannot delete a required template.
Parent topic: Blogs Overviews, How-tos, and FAQs

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