How To Install Theme in a Blogger Blog? (Easy Steps)

After creating your blog on Blogger, it is very important to choose and install a nice-looking theme for your BlogSpot blog. However, after creating the blog, a default theme is automatically installed. The installed theme is the most simple, ordinary-looking theme, does not look attractive.

You will find many other themes available on Blogger, you can choose any of them. If you want to give your blog a better look, then you have to use a third-party theme. In this article, we will give you a step-by-step guide on how you can install an available theme and a third-party theme on your BlogSpot blog.

What is a theme?
Is it necessary to change Blogger’s theme?
Where do you get a theme for your blog?
Where will we get the third-party themes?
How to change a theme using Blogger’s theme?
How to Change a theme using third party theme?

Before installing a theme on the blog, let us get some information about the theme.

What is a theme?

A theme is a tool that changes the design of a blog or website. When a visitor visits the website sees the looks of the blog and is attracted by seeing its design. Changing the theme of your blog changes its layout, changes the looks at the front end and the blog has to be designed according to the layout of the theme.

Is it necessary to change Blogger’s theme?

When you create a blog on Blogger, your blog is created with Blogger’s default theme. Once the blog is created, you can change it according to your necessary. You might not like this default blogger theme, and even for visitors, this theme is not as good-looking. To attract more visitors to your blog, you must change the theme.

Where do you get a theme for your blog?

You can find themes from 2 places. One, from Blogger, there are many themes available on Blogger. You can choose a good theme from it. Second, you can find a third-party theme and install it on your blog.

You will find more than 50 different-looking themes on Blogger. You need to choose the theme as per your blog niche.

But the blogger theme has some limitations. These are not nice-looking themes compared to third-party themes. The blogger theme gives you fewer customization opportunities.

So, my suggestion for you, use a third-party theme for your blog.

Where will we get the third-party themes?

To find a third-party theme, a list of websites has been given below where you can find a third-party theme for your blog.

Important Points to remember: Always take a backup of your old theme before changing it. To download the backup file of your theme, click on the down arrow available on the right side of customize button.

How to change a theme using Blogger’s theme?

Step 1: Go to your Blogger Dashboard Area.

Step 2: Click on Theme.

Step 3: Choose a theme from Blogger’s theme list, and click on it.

Step 4: Click on Apply button. Your theme will be changed.

How to Change a theme using third-party theme?

Before installing a third-party theme, you must choose a theme from a third-party theme provider. Once you find your favorite theme, download it to your computer.

I will take an example of a theme provider called gooyaabitemplates.com.

Step 1: Visit gooyaabitemplates.com, and search for a theme. I found a theme here called “Tutorial Blogger Template”. You can take a look here at the demo of the theme by clicking “Live Preview”.

You can buy a premium version of this theme to get the full functionality of this theme. However, You do not need to buy a premium version before. You can buy it once the blog is set up.

Step 2: Click on the Download button. The zip file of the theme will be downloaded on your computer.

Step 3: Go to the Download folder on your computer. Unzip the theme zip file. You will find many files, but the theme file will be an XML document.

Step 4: Go to your Blogger Dashboard Area, Click Theme. You will find a Customize button here.

Step 5: Click on the down arrow available on the right side of the customize button.

You will find 2 ways here to change your theme.

By clicking Restore.
By Clicking Edit HTML.

Changing the theme by clicking Restore

Step 6: Click on Restore, then click Upload. It will take you to the location of your computer.

Step 7: Choose the XML file of the theme, click Open. Your theme will change.

Changing the theme by clicking Edit HTML.

Step 6: Click on Edit HTML. The HTML file of your theme will show you.

Step 7: Go to the location of your computer where you saved your XML theme file. Right-click>Open with>Notepad. Your theme file will now open in Notepad.

Step 8: Select all (ctrl+a) HTML code, then copy (ctrl+c) all the codes.

Step 9: Go to Blogger, Select All, and delete all HTML codes.

Step 10: Paste (ctrl+v) codes here. Click on save.

Your theme will change. You can take a look at your website by clicking View blog.

Final Words: Changing a theme in a blogger’s blog is not a difficult task. To change the blog theme, Blogger has more than 50 themes. But my opinion is always to choose the third party theme. Because the third-party theme is nice-looking themes, it attracts more visitors to the blog. It provides outstanding design facilities for blogs. You can use any of the third-party theme providers from the above list to choose a good blogger theme. I hope you got the step-by-step guide to change the theme in BlogSpot. If you have any doubt regarding changing the blog theme, you can contact us on our contact page.

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