How to Change Blogger Theme and Customize the Theme

If you’re looking to make your Blogger theme look more professional and less generic, there’s only one thing to do, and that is change Blogger theme. The generic themes that you see when you set up your Blogger website can be changed to look like the themes used on a WordPress website. You can change these themes by simply downloading XML files of the professional-looking theme, and re-uploading them on your website. It is that simple.

To show you how simple it really is to change Blogger theme, come along as I explain how with images.

Step 1: Backup your existing website theme

Before you change the XML file of your theme, you should back up your existing website, just in case you encountered an error while changing the theme and would like to revert to your old theme.  Here’s how to change theme in Blogger without losing settings by simply backing up your existing website theme.

Go to your Blogger dashboard and navigate down to themes.

On the themes display, click on the dropdown menu as indicated in the image below.

 

On clicking that, you will see a window that shows the download backup file. Click on download and the backup of your website will be downloaded to your laptop’s downloads.

This is what the downloaded file will look like.

Step 2: Find a professional Blogger theme

There are so many websites that sell professional Blogger themes and also offer free themes. If you are going for the free themes, ensure that you do not edit the attribution area in the footer. The part with the copyrights and links to the designers. If you do, your website will keep redirecting to the seller’s or designer’s website. Here are two websites that are highly recommended to get free Blogger themes. Copybloggerthemes and Colorlib.

Step 3: Upload the downloaded Blogger theme

To change the Blogger theme on your website to the one you’ve downloaded from any of the websites above, you have to first unzip (extract) the downloaded file. Once you’ve done this, head over to your Blogger dashboard and click on the drop-down menu, then restore, and upload.

Click on Upload

Choose the XML file in the template folder and click on Open.

Choose the unzip file that contains the theme.

This will upload your Theme and you can then head on to the next step. In case there is an error, you can replace the files by restoring the first backup you downloaded in step 1.

Your final theme will look like this, but this depends on the theme you choose. Next you have to edit your theme to look this way and here’s how you do this.

Step 4: Edit your new theme layout

To change style of theme customization or Blogger theme design, you need to use the layout tab and not the customize theme tab. This is because this theme is not native to the platform, but coded by an external individual. So, to achieve this, go to your layout tab, and start editing. This is where you can change the menu font, change the image on your Blogger theme, change sidebar border, and lots more.

To Conclude

We’ve come to the end of this post on how to change theme on Blogger. You can change Blogger theme using the steps above. It is easy and straight to the point, if you have difficulty doing this yourself, you can reach out to us through the Contact Us page and we’d gladly offer you our SEO service. Or you could drop a comment on this post and we will reply to you as soon as possible. It is worth noting that changing your Blogger theme could impact your website’s SEO and should be done with caution.