Is your blog showing as a blank screen or as incomplete? First of all, in Classic take the easy path and Republish. See if it clears up. Then check your template and see if it's truncated. You may not have caused the damage, but it happens! You have probably not lost any posts. Proceed.
If you don't have a safety copy of it, you could select a new or the same template over again and it might straighten out. If the template sidebar wasn't too changed, it might be a small loss to be repaired. Even better might be Googling for a cached version of the blog.
For that purpose, see if you can find a cached copy of your blog in Google or other search engine. If posts are missing, you might copy and paste a still-correct post. You can also go into Source code to copy the parts of the template you may be in danger of losing and yet absolutely need to preserve.
Be sure NOT to get in the View Source and copy any of the posts into your template later; they are not supposed to be there and the template will malfunction!
Selecting a new (or the same) template will not destroy your posts, only your current template (including the sidebar information).
| If you are in New Blogger, you can go to the Edit Html box, look at the bottom of it, and locate the lines Revert to Classic Template. View Classic Template. Click on one of the lines. If you don't revert, you can copy and paste the old template and then use parts of it to sort out your current version. Remember that the code parts that were in your Classic template will go instead into some of the Page Elements that you create in New Blogger. |
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Every time I go to change my template somehow, I copy the old version into my clipboard and paste it into an email for me to send back to myself. I keep a record of the changes in case I need anything.
ReplyDeleteThanks for doing this, Ron. Good stuff.
Okay, a question... I used to be able to change dates on post. Recently, I've seen you and others doing so, but I do not have the option. Occasionally, I can on an edit, but it is rare. I have IE and XP, if that matters.
I've never heard an explanation from Blogger about why normal options just disappear from the scrreen. And it's like publishing or photo loading, yours might be bad and mine working! It's damnable and irritating, but that's all that I know at present. If anybody knows, maybe they'll tell me now the question's been asked. I see it come it pretty often, though not always that option.
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ReplyDeleteI've been trying to upload photos like I have done every other time, and it keeps publishing my post without them. What gives?
Thanks!
THANK YOU!! I kept receiving the "Page Can Not Be Found" error and you saved my life...THANK YOU!
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