30 websites that provide free blogger templates downloads

We are provided with quite a number of free simple templates by blogger itself. Yet we want to stretch number of choices and want to go exploring third party templates. Because some of them come better and as professional as any other premium templates and for free.

                             

To explore the best free professional templates for your blog, I have come up with a list of websites where third party blogger templates can be downloaded for free. Let me know if I have missed some that deserve to be in the list too.

#1 Blogger Templates

Blogger templates provide quite a greater range of free blogger templates - from 1 column templates to 4 columns templates. It also provides templates adapted from free and premium WordPress themes.  

#2 Blogger Themes Gallery

It contains a gallery of free blogger templates that are responsively suitable for all niches of blogging from personal weblog to professional online trading of stocks and cars. It has classic looking templates to modern stylish templates. You can also submit templates design by you.

#3 Gooyaabi Templates

Gooyaabi Templates provide three categories of free blogger templates; Responsive Templates, Free Blogger Templates and SEO Ready Templates. All the templates are modern stylish magazine style that can be used for wider range of blogging niches.  

#4 Themexpose

Themexpose provides a number of free blogger templates are suitable for photography blogging and infographic blogging. All templates are professionally designed with classic appearances and fonts.  

#5 Sora Templates

Sora Templates provides a greater range of classic looking free blogger templates that can be used in personal photography blogging to multi-millions online business. Many templates have magazine style designs. 

#6 Templateism

Templateism has free four categories of blogger templates that can be used for technology related blogs to photographic blogging. It also gives option as to whether one can buy templates and remove credit links or download free templates and keep credit links at footer. 

#7 Premium Blogger Templates

Premium Blogger Templates provides templates that have premium template appearances and designs. It also provides free tutorials on installation and customization of templates downloaded from it. Its templates can be used for wider range of blogging areas. 

#8 Designer Blogs

This website isn't completely into designing of blogger templates. Yet it has designed some templates that can be downloaded for free and can be used in blogs that are into designing related area. 

#9 Deluxe Templates

If you want to have multi-colored and stylishly designed, you may love to use some free templates from Deluxe Templates. It has templates that are natural color blended which are good at looking for readers. All templates are but magazine styles. 

#10 New Blogger Themes

New Blogger Themes are gallery of modern stylish inclusive blogger templates. All templates can be used for various blogging areas because they designed in such a way to include and display as much information for readers as possible. But most of templates are in magazine styles. 

#11 Vee Themes

Vee Themes also provide a wider range of free modern blogger templates that can be used for all niches of blogging. All its templates have social networking icons embedded for easy customization. 

#12 Template Store

Template Store not only provide free modern inclusive blogger templates but also provides a number of templates for bloggers at WordPress. All templates are beautiful and professional. 

#13 Mas Templates

Mas Templates has quite a number of template choices if you're into infographic and photography blogging. All its templates have inbuilt featured posts or popular posts slider with post thumbnails. 

#14 Blog Crowds

All templates designed have appearances extracted from nature like sunset, ocean views and green fresh plants. They make good templates for the readers' eyes at the time of navigation across the blog. 

#15 Templateify

Templates at Templateify have modern multi-colored stylish designs that can be used for personal blogs to online business and photography. It also provides option to purchase templates and remove credit links in their template footers.

#16 Blogger Buster

It has a number of free templates having classic appearances and designs which can be used in poetry and classic literature blogging. Style of fonts, background images and sidebar features it has implemented are user friendly and responsive.  

#17 Eblog Templates

Eblog Templates also not only provides free templates for bloggers at blogspot but also quite a number of premium-like themes for bloggers at WordPress. All its templates have modern website features for providing as much information as possible to the readers. 

#18 SEO Blogger Templates

SEO Blogger Templates provides templates that have search engine optimization features like social network sharing icons, jquery and easily customization features. Designs are modern and innovative.  

#19 XML Blogger Templates

Templates provided by XML Blogger Templates are magazine styles that are inclusive which can be responsively used for media houses and other online business concerns. 

#20 Templatezy

If you want to have free blogger templates that don't contain unnecessary junk codes which will often reduce loading speed of a blog and thereby reducing page ranking and revenues, templates from Templatezy are recommended. Its templates are not only professionally modern but also SEO friendly.  

#21 Blogtemplate4u

Blogtemplate4u not only provides free blogger templates but also WordPress themes for bloggers at WordPress. All templates are multi-columned and have jquery qualities to make featured posts, recent posts, recommended posts and popular posts sliders. 

#22 Pro Templates Lab

Templates at Pro Templates Lab are simple, SEO friendly and modern. They are dynamically inclusive making them suitable for media houses and other online business concerns where display of as much information as possible is very important. 

#23 Bangash Templates

Bangash Templates provides as many as seven categories of free blogger templates. If you're blogging on movies, videos and mobile reviews, templates from Bangash Templates are recommended. Because it provides all of them and that are also for free. 

#24 Template Picks

Templates at Template Picks are especially designed for car blogs, hotels & restaurant websites, travell blogs and movies/video blogs. In each category there are at least 15 highly rated and most downloaded templates.  

#25 All Adapted from WordPress Templates

If you're blogger at blogspot but crazily loves themes of wordpress, then you don't have to worry of migrating your blog to WordPress. All Adapted from WordPress provides templates that are same like that of WordPress but can be easily used at Blogger too. 

#26 Free Blog Templates

Free Blog Templates has templates that can be used for wider range of blogging areas. Designs and features of its templates are modern and stylish. In addition to templates, it also provides services to download other tools that are required in building a good blog. 

#27 Fresh Design Web

Fresh Design Webs has templates for bloggers at Blogspot, WordPress and Joomla. Templates are designed to make them suitable for corporate bodies. And templates are also clean and professional. 

#28 Lovely Templates

Lovely Templates doesn't have templates designed by itself. But it pools templates designed by other parties and present all in one. It's a collection of lovely templates from where user can click and download free or purchase from their respective parent developers. 

#29 Choco Templates

If you love colors of chocolates and then also your blog also wants to appear like chocolate, then you may download and use one of the templates from Choco Templates. 

#30 Templates Blogger 

Templates at Templates Blogger are simple and SEO friendly. All templates have image slider features and inbuilt related post features. Moreover, they have author BIO feature being added at the end of posts. 

To add all Languages Google Website Translator in Blogger

There are as many as ten free tools from Google that are especially designed for website builders and bloggers. One of them is Website Translator that will translate a site or blog just by selecting a language into which it needs to be translated. It supports 90+ languages.

If you're targeting global audience, installation of this gadget in your blog should be like necessary. This will be of great utility in boosting your traffic from countries where English isn't a maximum used language - countries like Japan, China, Thailand and Italy etc. 

Also Read: 

• How to add related post gadget in Blogger?
• How to hide related post from Blog's front page?
• How to add image as Logo in your Blog?

It can be either installed as floating bar, slider and in page. There are also many customized version of it. But since customized version comes with load of unknown codes, I cannot say it would be safe for you to install them. Instead let us install it as gadget in sidebar. It should be more than enough for beginners like you and me. Please consider the following steps for this:

1. Open Website Translator
2. Click on Add to you Website
3. Copy and paste URL of your blog
4. Select your site's original language
5. Click Next
6. Select Translation options (all languages or specific language)
7. Select Display Mode
8. Click on Get the Code
9. Select the Code (Ctrl+A)
   
10. Copy the code (Ctrl+C) 

And let us add it in your blog's sidebar/header/footer as a gadget. 

1. Login to your blog
2. Select the blog (if you have many)
3. Click on Layout
4. Click on Add a Gadget
5. Select HTML/JavaScript
6. Keep the title blank
7. In content, paste the code of step#10 
8. Click on Save

You will be taken into your blog's layout frame. In this you can easily locate which is your website translator gadget. You can also re-position it either in side-bar, header (like my blog) or in footer according to your preference. 

8 advantages of activating comment moderation in blogger

You must have commented in many blogs. And in all the blogs, your comment must have not become visible right after you have clicked on the publish button. Instead a statement saying ‘Your comment will be visible after approval’ will be displayed.

                 

This means the blog in which you have commented has comment moderation enabled. 

Why comment should be moderated?

Some bloggers may say comments shouldn’t be moderated. It’s like taking away the rights of people who have commented seeing their own comment.

The person who commented it cannot see the comment immediately. I think that will be the only disadvantage of comment moderation.

Whatsoever I like comments to be moderated. Let me give the reasons:

Comment Filtration
Commenting is now a means to gain more readership and exposure adapted by new bloggers. New bloggers will go on commenting in other well established blog just to advertise their blogs. All comments may not be worth of publishing. Comment moderation helps comment filtration.
 

Deletion of Spams
A blog having good traffic will have higher rate spams inflow as comments. Some jealous people may try to first comment and then gradually intrude the blog’s privacy. Comment moderation acts as first level of security check.
 

Comment Duplication
When a blog receives good number of readers and higher comments inflow, the possibility of conceptually same comment getting repeated will be higher. It is useless publishing same or similar comment. Comment moderation will take care of it.
 

Professional
Since comment moderation will avoid coming of spams, deletion of duplicated comments and publishing of only post-related comments, readers will consider the blog professionally managed.
 

Reply when free
The admin cannot reply to a comment as soon as a person has commented if the comment moderation isn’t activated. Commenters will often feel rejected when admin is replying after few days from the date of commenting when in reality admin was busily engaged.
 

Study Readers
It’s often through the way a person leaves comment in your blog displays behavioral characteristics of him/her. If you don’t like certain behaviors of some people, you can directly deleted it or keep its as spam for time being to study well.
 

Preserve Reputation
Some people have a tendency to leave unnecessary comment just to advertise their blogs with the intention to get backlinks for their blogs. Some even comment which are totally unrelated to the post and ask irrelevant helps. When such things are seen on the blog, readers may get annoyed for accepting comments like dustbin which take your reputation at brink. Comment moderation will look into this well. 
 

Repeated Readers
This is more to do with readers’ psychology. A person who has commented in my blog and hasn’t seen his comment at that instant is more likely to visit again compare to a person who has commented and also saw it being displayed.

Read:10 effective methods to bring more readers to your blog

 
Final Words
Therefore, it’s always better to activate comment moderation in your blog. There are more reasons to moderate them than not.

How to change or upload third party templates in blogger

Some bloggers are such that they want to change templates and designs often. If you’re one of such people, blogger is a recommended platform. Changing of templates and designs are completely free unlike in WordPress. In blogger, you can also add third party templates free of cost. 

                 
To change templates, you can either use templates provided by blogger itself or templates designed by other third parties. You don’t have to pay for template change. 

Read: 5 popular advantages of opening a blog at WordPress.com 

In this tutorial, we will cover the following customization:

1. How to change the blogger template?
2. How to upload third party template?

If you don’t know how to edit blogger templates, it’s always better to use templates provided by Blogger. They are not only simple and free but also don’t contain much complicated HTMLs or CSS.

How to change a Blogger Template?

There are seven kinds of templates provided by Blogger free of cost. They are:

1. Simple
2. Dynamic views
3. Picture Window
4. Awesome Inc.
5. Water Mark
6. Ethereal 
7. Travel

There are at least three templates in each category. This means there are at least 21 free blogger templates in total. You can choose one template from any of the seven categories depending upon your preferences. All are good in their own ways. 

To change templates from any of the seven mentioned categories, consider the following steps:

1. Login to your blog
2. Select a blog (if you have more than one blog)
3. Click on Template
4. Click on Customize
5. Click on templates
6. Choose template category
7. Select a template
8. Click on Apply to Blog
9. Click on View Blog

If you’re little above common in blogging, you can also do many customizations in blog header, blog description, page tabs, post body, fonts, background and many more. Let us keep them for another post. Keep visiting TLB.
 

How to upload third party blogger template?

I have already told you not to do this if you don’t know how to edit template. If you know, you may go ahead with it.

1. Login to your blog
2. Select the blog (if you have more than one)
3. Click on Template
4. Click on Backup/Restore
5. Click on Browse 
6. Select template downloaded & saved in your computer. Read the instructions
7. Click on Upload
8. Click View Blog to see change in your blog appearance

If you know how to customize third party template, you can do by clicking Edit HTML button. If you don’t know HTML customization, just leave as it is. It is also safe on your part. 

I have given tutorials for this:

• How to reduce space between blog title & description?
• How to center align page list/tabs in blogger?
• How to remove Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Link? 
• How to remove Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) Link?  

Final Words
In Blogger templates can be either one of those free blogger templates or any free or premium third party templates. If you’re newbie, don’t attempt to use third party templates. Many of them aren’t safe. Some contain unnecessary links that will hamper loading speed and traffic of your blog.
 

Over to you
Hope you got what I have tried to say on how to change blogger template and also use third party blogger templates. If not, you can always leave as a comment. I will explain your query there. If you want your query being explained in detail, mail me at stcbmtl@gmail.com. Thank you!

How to download blogger templates & Save in a computer?

Blogger though provides quite a good number of free templates, we always want to try something different. When we mean templates out of the list given by Blogger, we are actually talking about third party templates. There are thousand and thousand of such templates. Some are free. Some charge minimal prices. 

How to Design Smart SEO responsive Post Labels in blogger

What is mean by label in Blogging?

In a school, students will be divided into different groups. Some may be in section A and some in Section B. Some may be science students whereas some may be commerce students.  Some may be in upper block and some may be in lower block.

                   
This means students of a school are divided into different groups. First why students of a same school should be divided into different groups? Why they can’t be kept together? 

Let us say one school kept all its students at one. How will be the condition of the school? There will be chaos and confusion. A mother coming to meet her daughter Marie won’t find her easily. There will hundreds and hundreds of students. 

This is the case with blogging. Your published posts individually can be students of a school called Blogging. All your posts will be divided into different groups. Every group is a label. In some case, it's known as category. They are same. The process of assigning labels for your posts is called labeling. 

Therefore, labeling of your posts is as important as dividing school children into different groups. Just like a mother cannot find her daughter Marie easily among undivided students, search engines cannot find a keywords-containing post among your unlabelled posts. Marie’s mother will be search engine in blogging context. Marie can be a post containing queries and keywords that your readers are searching for in your blog. 

Dividing your posts into various labels may be important. But equally designing of labels for your blog is also important. Your labels should be short, simple and attractive. 

What actually determines how you design your labels? 

1. Area of Blogging  
2. Popular Things  
3. Urgent Things 

How you design your labels should start from the area in which you are blogging. This means your blogging niche should be kept as a root of all labels. Labels can be just like its trunk, branches and twigs. 

Let us say I am exclusively blogging on Digital Cameras. This means my niche of blogging is Digital Cameras. When I write about digital cameras, I might be writing about Samsung Cameras, Nikon Cameras and Canon Cameras. So Samsung, Nikon and Canon can be my labels. 

The area of blogging where I have been focusing until now is Blogging Tips & Tricks. Let us see how I have designed my labels: 

1. Blogger  
2. Web Design  
3. Instagram Gadget  
4. Blogging Tips  
5. WordPress 

Therefore, we have to be smart in designing labels. It shouldn’t be at random. The randomly assigned labels will instead confuse the search engines.

How to add an image as a logo in Blogger Templates

Logo is important for your blog as much as identity cards are for us. If you are into professional blogging, it’s almost like your blog must have a logo. But for people who are into blogging out of passion, it isn’t that much important. However, if you can design one and add to your blog, it will give professional look to your blog.
    

It’s just like how you add an image in one of sidebar gadgets. But logo should be added in header frame. But by default, none of blogger template allows this. So it remains unfeasible. A frame to add this is nowhere near header. But we can make it so by doing some HTML editing. Follow the given steps:

Login to your blog>Click on Template>Click on Edit HTML>Find (Ctrl+F) the given code embedded inside the template HTML:

<b:section class='header' id='header' maxwidgets='1' showaddelement='no'>

In above change maxiwidgets into 3 from 1 and then showaddelement into yes from no. Once you’re done, click on Save Template. This should add an image addable frame near your blog header frame. To see whether it’s being added, click on Layout and see. 

You can see that Add a Gadget has appeared. Now proceed with adding of image, your logo image into it. Click on Add a Gadget>Scroll down>Choose Image>Give appropriate title (often blog title is used)>Upload image from your computer>Or link from other website if you have used that image there>Click on Shrink to fit in well>Click on Save. 

This should successfully add an image in your blog header as your logo. Now click on View Blog and see if that image has appeared near your header. If it appears you must have got it right. It's wonderful, right? Keep Blogging. Cheers!   

Simple steps to add Back to Top Button in blogger

If you love to display quite a larger number of posts in your blog front page thereby increasing the displayed-height of your website. Or by default your template shows more number of posts in homepage, it becomes quite a cumbersome work for a reader to move all the way to top once s/he has reached to bottom reading all the contents. 

In such case, adding Back to Top button/arrow is being recommended to make navigation along your blog easier for readers. Therefore, today let us learn how to add this button in your blog.

Login to your blog>Click on Template>Click on Edit HTML>Find (Ctrl+F): <head> and add given code below it:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>

Once you're done adding above code, click on Save Template. Now Click on Layout>Add a Gadget>Choose HTML/JavaScript>Keep Title blank>In content, paste the given code:

<style>
    .ks-back-to-top {
        position: fixed;
        bottom: 2em;
        right: 15px;
        text-decoration: none;
        padding: 1em;
        display: none;
        cursor:pointer;
    }
    </style><br />
    <img class="ks-back-to-top" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV5BD86yaSoXpEUThfyswgYK5JviFX_nOv02U7R8CHQi2I5PBwE-O41Ko49XHEZksnkW0evs0LQsOfE5K0cFMNGxnVP5WKRYcb8J27kld3uWMuMoj3hDg4AxZ5VrHksH8E6vBaujituNc/s1600/6.png" /><br />
    <script type="text/javascript">
    /*****www.sherutenzin.com***/
    jQuery(document).ready(function() {
        var offset = 220;
        var duration = 500;
        jQuery(window).scroll(function() {
            if (jQuery(this).scrollTop() > offset) {
                jQuery('.ks-back-to-top').fadeIn(duration);
            } else { //www.sherutenzin.com
                jQuery('.ks-back-to-top').fadeOut(duration);
            }
        });
        jQuery('.ks-back-to-top').click(function(event) {
            event.preventDefault();
            jQuery('html, body').animate({scrollTop: 0}, duration);
            return false;
        })
    });
    </script>

Click Save. It's being added in your blog. You can re-position it by means of drag-and-drop. Usually it's advised to keep at the footer or just below post body space. Hope you got your button. Cheers!

To disable Magazine Style from Blogger Templates

If you have installed third party templates in your blog, you must have realized that many of them come with an automatic post summary snippets and read more links.

This is good provided your posts contain combination of both images and words. Otherwise things appear little unprofessional. Let us say many of your posts don't contain thumbnails, then it would be much better if we remove automatic post summaries and read more/continue reading links from your current template.

So let us remove them and give your blog a professional touch. Follow the given steps: 

Login to your blog>Click on Template>Click on Edit HTML>Find the following HTML codes embedded:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;static_page&quot;'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;item&quot;'>
<div expr:id='&quot;summary&quot; + data:post.id'><data:post.body/></div>
<script type='text/javascript'>createSummaryAndThumb(&quot;summary<data:post.id/>&quot;);</script>
</b:if>
</b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'><data:post.body/></b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;static_page&quot;'><data:post.body/></b:if>

To trace above code easily, it will be better you find 'createSummaryAndThumb' first and then only find the codes related to it. 

Once you have found it, replace above (whole) code with : <data:post.body/> and click Save Template. 

You can view the blog. The post summary must have been removed. But links like Read More or in some cases Continue Reading will appear still. To remove this too, you have to remove the given code from your template:

<a class='readmorepbt' expr:href='data:post.url'>Read More</a>

But again Read More link may vary from templates to template. Remove that is appearing in your current template. Once you have completed all, Save Template and view your blog. Hope it's being removed. Now your blog may appear beautifully professional. Cheers! 

How to add Google Sitemap to your blog in Blogger

If you had been in blogging for quite a while now, you must be knowing the numerous advantages of adding Site Map to your blog. To tell newbies, adding site map is to help search engines in noticing the contents of our blogs and thereby increasing the traffic. People usually add the sitemaps to increase the total views of their blogs. 

If you too wants to increase the pageviews of your blog, you can easily add XML generated Google sitemap to your blog. Please follow the following steps:

Go to Google XML Sitemap Generator>Paste the URL address of your blog>Click on Generate Sitemap>Copy (Ctrl+c) the code>Go to the settings of your blog>Click on Search Preferences>Click on Edit button of Custom Robots.txt>On Enable custom robots.txt content? choose Yes>Paste above XML code>Click Save Changes.

 

You have added your sitemap. This will surely help you in increasing traffic of your blog. Enjoy blogging. Cheers!

How to remove Navbar from your blog in blogger?

If you have created a blog in blogspot and also has used one of their free templates, when you open your blog, you must have seen different links of your email, new post, design and sign out etc on the top right-hand side. They are but the elements of Navbar. 

  

What is a Navbar. It is a Navigation Bar in short form. If we keep those links, they provide us link to open mails, design, post new article and also sign out from our gmail account. But they give unprofessional looks to our blogs - because all the links this Navbar provides are also inside our blogger dashboard. 

Therefore, let us learn how to hide this from our blog. To get it done in your blog, please follow the given steps and incorporate them:

Login to your blog>Click on Layout>Locate Navbar inside it>Click on Edit>In Navbar Configuration box, scroll down and click on OFF>Click on SAVE.

Once above steps are completed, take your cursor to the top left-hand side of layout box and click on view blog. If all those links displayed on the top right-hand side of your blog are gone, then you must have got it right. Cheers!

How to reduce space between Blog title & description?

The moment you create a blog in blogger/blogspot.com and then open it for the first time, you will be surprised to see presence of unwanted space between your blog title and blog description statement. This is indeed not wanted. But the good thing is we can either remove it permanently or hide temporarily. 

   

  

To remove it permanently

If you want to remove this unwanted space permanently and maintain only a required space between your blog title and blog description, incorporate following steps and edit your blog

Login to your blog>Click on Template>Click on Edit HTML>Search (Ctrl+F): .Header h1 { and below it find the codes that resemble the given code:

.header-inner .Header .titlewrapper {
  padding: 22px $(header.padding);
}

To reduce the space between the blog title and blog description or tagline whatever you wants to call it, reduce padding px in above code. You are advised to start from -1. In my case, I will reduce from 22px to -22px. This gave only desired space between my blog title and blog description statement. Hope you got it right.

To hide it temporarily
We can also hide it temporarily by adding custom CSS to our template. But this doesn't guarantee that this awkward space won't appear when you change your blog template. If you will use the current template for quite sometime, hiding it is a good option. To get it done in your blog, follow the given steps and incorporate in your blog:

Login to your blog>Click on Template>Click on Customize>Click on Advanced>Scroll down and click Add CSS>In Add Custom CSS area, copy and paste the given CSS:

.Header h1 {margin-bottom:0}
.Header .description {margin-top: 0;}
.header-inner .Header .titlewrapper {padding-bottom:0;}

  

Once it's being pasted, see whether space between your blog title and blog description gets reduced or not. If gets reduced, you must have got it right. Click on Apply to blog and you're done. It's easy. Cheers!

How to center align page list/tabs in Blogger?

When we place page tabs above the post body and below the blog description statement, by default they will appear on left-hand side corner. If you like them there, it's no problem. But if you wants to take them to center, incorporate following steps in your blog:

   

 

Login to your blog>Click on Template>Click on Customize>Click on Advanced>Scroll down and click on Add CSS>Copy the given CSS and paste in Add Custom CSS blank white area:

.PageList li {display:inline !important; float:none !important;}
.PageList {text-align:center !important;}

Once it's being added, see whether your pagelist gets center-aligned or not. If it does then you have got it right. Click on Apply to Blog. You're done. You can also do customization there. If you want them displayed at right-hand side, change center into right.

But all above steps assume you have page list being added unto your blog and being placed above post body and below blog description statement. Make sure they are there in your blog these customization steps are incorporated. Cheers!