WARNING: Blogger Template not saving.

 (UPDATED Feb 25th)

Hey everyone on the blogger interface, blogger is having a global issue today with the "save template" function not working, this actually started on the 23rd, but is now effecting more bloggers. Blogger is aware of the problem and working a fix. Here is the issue with the save template function:
When you log in to blogger to edit your layout or template these buttons are not working that are highlighted and you can't even expand the template to see the rest of your coding. Basically they are dead buttons. The links to these buttons say javascriptvoid(0) , meaning they link to no where.

So before you do anything to your blog please just log in and back up your template right now.  All you need to do is log in to blogger, go to "Design" then go to Edit HTML, then hit "Download Full template". This will prevent your template from being lost completely.

Now for me as of Today: The Save Template button is working, but the expand template check box is not working, it links me to a 404 page. I just wanted to let you all know its not you or your computers, its blogger.

Here is the forum discussion on it today: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=331402eb33ca277c&hl=en&fid=331402eb33ca277c00049d0cb9127627

This is an update from the blogger Known Issues Blog. They have finally addressed the issue. No ETA on a fix yet. http://knownissues.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-users-have-reported-issues-with.html 
It says:
Some users have reported issues with our expanding widgets in HTML Editor and previewing in Template Designer. We are investigating and will report back once we have more information.  — latest update on Thursday, February 24, 2011 
However its not some users its pretty much all users according to the Discussion board. This is just an FYI and a reminder to back up your template right after you make a change you are satisfied with. I was able to get around this problem by opening a template I had saved a few days earlier, editing what I needed to edit in wordpad, resaving it then uploading the new template back to blogger using this feature: 

 Just browse for the template you saved and upload it, as soon as you upload it the expand widget template checkbox starts working again and you can make changes that way. But don't refresh the page or the checkbox will stop working again. 


So if you actually like your template as is right now, back it up. Or back it up, make your changes in wordpad and reload it. Make sense? 


I hope blogger gets this issue fixed soon, but for now if you need to make dyer changes to your blog template this is how you can do it.

 



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