How to Check Your Blogger Template Name

Ever wondered which template you are using? Well, it is pretty simple to know. In this tutorial, I'll tell you how to check the Blogger template of your blog. By default, Blogger offers 6 awesome templates including Simple, Awesome Inc., Picture Window, Ethereal, Watermark & Travel. Follow the steps to check your template.

1. Open the Template section.



2. Click the Edit HTML button.



3. A new window will open. Click the Proceed button.


4. Now, you'll see a lot of code. Just scroll down a bit and you'll see some code like this:



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Blogger Template Style
Name: Simple
Designer: Josh Peterson
URL: www.noaesthetic.com
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5. From this code, you can easily see the name of the template. In the example, the template is "Simple". After that you can easily do editing or follow some tutorial. Click the following image for details:

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How to Enable Threaded Comments in Customized Blogger-Blogspot Templates

Blogger-Blogspot has recently introduced much-awaited feature of threaded commenting. Now, users can reply to a comment and the comment owner will get an email notification. Naturally, I was also excited about it so, I enabled this feature on my heavily customized template. But it didn't work. I was lucky enough to have an old backup file of Simple Blogger-Blogspot template. After doing some coding, I found it quite easy to integrate the threaded comments in the Simple Blogger-Blogspot template. Please note that this is not a properly tested tutorial. Your template might have different codes. So, follow the steps carefully.

Steps to Enable Threaded Comments

1. First of all make sure that your blog feed is set to Full. You can confirm that by going to Settings > Other and then selecting Full from the Allow Blog Feed dropdown.



2. You must also have embedded comment form enabled. Check that by going to Settings > Posts and Comments and check the Comment Location dropdown.



3. After that, open the Template section.




Caution: Please Backup your current template before moving on.
4. Click the Edit HTML button.



5. A new window will open. You'd have to click the Proceed button to start editing.



6. Check Expand Widget Templates option.


7. Find the following line of code:
   


Once you've found the above line, you'll see this piece of code: