WIDGET PROBLEM

Important notes troubleshoooting the installing of a new blogger template.

1. Be careful with the widgets. Pay more attention on it.This is one thing I don’t like too much about blogger’s automatic system. Let’s get an example to make it clear and easier to understand.

If your currently blog has only 1 HTML/Javascript widget. and on the new template has more then 1 + 1 HTML/Javascript widget, let’s say it has 3 HTML/Javascript widgets. You will have a bad day if you are new on editing blogger templates. especially if you are new on web programming.

What would happen?

On the normal case. you would have 3 different HTML/Javascript widgets. they are widgets with this id: HTML1, HTML2, HTML3

Unfortunately, on this case, if your current blog only has 1 HTML/Javasscript widget, and the new template uses (requires) 3 HTML/Javascripts. Instead you would have 3 different widgets with 3 different id, you would only have 3 different widgets with 2 different id. they are: HTML1, HTML2, HTML2

That is why, you would be succeeded uploading the new template, but you would never be able to edit it, because each time you want to save the template, you would always get an error says Duplicating widget’s id. “HTML2″!

I would say, it is a bug of blogger template system.

How to fix it?

1. Rename one of the duplicate id’s with a new id. on the example above, rename one the Id of HTML2 into HTML3.

2. Click the Save Template button.

If the duplicate Id still occurs. rename it again to another id. eg: HTML4, HTML5 and so on.