A Lot Of People Are Posting That They Are Having Problems Uploading Templates To Their Blogger.com Blogs.

I am seeing a LOT of posts from people on the Blogger.com help boards posting that they are having problems uploading third-party blog templates to use on their blogs. Some of them are even blaming Blogger.com for this.

I don't think its Blogger.com's fault really.

One of the Blogger.com employees has posted in response to some of these posts that the templates that bloggers are trying to add may be corrupt in some kind of way and that is why their new blog templates are not being accepted.

Here's my take on the problem:

Once you upload a new template and save it it means that the new template that you added is now your new Blogger.com template. If there was a problem with the template then you would get some kind of message saying why your template couldn't be accepted. If you didn't get that message then that means that the new template that you were trying to add has been accepted and uploaded. BUT when you try to add to that template (ie a new widget or gadget) you may get one of the infamous
bx error codes - especially the bx-btcv0r bx error code!

Before you change or edit your template it would be a very good idea for you to make a back-up copy of your old / original template - just in case you might need it again!