Backup Your Page Element

 
Now if you ever have to change your blog template, most of the gadgets you installed will either be deleted or become empty. So it is best to backup the gadgets. However, not every gadgets can be backed up. Some gadgets also need no backup because they can easily be restored via the LAYOUT.

Here is a list of gadgets with those which can be backed up in red, those which need no backup in green, and those which cannot be backup in black:

Blog List

Followers

Slideshow

Subscription Links

Poll

List

Link List

Picture

AdSense

Text

HTML/Javascript

Feed

Labels

Newsreel

Video Bar

Logo

Profile

Blog Archive

Page Header


How to backup TEXT and HTML/Javascript Gadgets

Open/Edit the TEXT or HTML/Javascript Gadgets. For the TEXT Gadget, click EDIT HTML. For both, just highlight all everything inside the "Gadget editor" (name is my "invention" given for want of a name) by clicking inside the "Gadget editor" and press Ctrl+A keys simultaneosly, right-click and select COPY. Open a Notepad file, paste into the Notepad file and save in a suitable folder using an easily recognizable name for easy retrival.

How to restore TEXT and HTML/Javascript Gadgets
Just open the backup files, highlight by clicking ctrl+A and copy into clipboard, open the TEXT or HTML/Javascript Gadgets, paste the codes from the clipboard into the "Gadget editor" and save.

For Gadgets that cannot be backup, if you want it restored, you will just have to reconstruct. For Gadgets that need no backup, just restore them from LAYOUT.