News!! The Deviation Betwixt Themes As Well As Templates Inwards Blogger

This article explains the divergence betwixt themes as well as templates inwards Blogger, Google's blogging tool.

What is (was) a Blogger template

How a weblog that is made amongst Blogger is shown to a visitor is controlled yesteryear 4 sets of information:

• The posts which the blogger writes (ie the content)
• A user-editable "configuration file" which records the overall formatting options which the file designer as well as and thence the blogger conduct maintain chosen
• Another configuration file, called the post-template, which records choices that the blogger has made nether Layout > Blog posts (edit), but cannot last edited elsewhere.   
• Blogger's ain software, which puts the other things together amongst or thence internal rules to brand "web pages".   Bloggers cannot command the rules inwards this at all.

Originally, the get-go "configuration file" was called a template.   In fact, officially it was called a design-template, to distinguish it from the post-template.   However because most people aren't aware of the postal service template, commonly just the discussion "template" is used to hateful design-template.

What is a theme

Other blogging tools (eg Wordpress, Tumblr) called their equivalent file a theme.    Most (or fifty-fifty all) of those tools render less access to alter things inwards the Theme file, for example if yous usage a Wordpress free-hosted blog, as well as thence yous cannot alter whatever of the code inwards your theme, yous tin laissez passer on the axe exclusively brand formatting changes which are allowed for inwards the Wordpress front-end.

Many of the Wordpress themes conduct maintain had a lot of  graphic blueprint operate done on them - using them gives a blog-site which looks really attractive (or otherwise suited for their purpose) on a broad hit of screens.    Many large websites conduct maintain been made using Wordpress, as well as thence really many professional person designers conduct maintain created Wordpress themes.    Because of this, many people believe that it's easier to larn an excellent-looking website from a topic than from a Blogger template.

Blogger templates conduct maintain right away choke themes

Recently - I noticed it inwards March 2017 - Blogger started calling their templates "themes".  

• They've changed the card alternative on their dashboard from "Template" to "Theme".
• They've changed the activity push names inwards the template/theme editor to tell things similar "Save theme".
• They've written diverse assist articles which refer to themes.

What hasn't changed

• We tin laissez passer on the axe notwithstanding edit our templates themes extensively.
• The Blogger tools that brand the changes inwards our themes haven't changed:  All the items nether the Themes tab on the dashboard are the same equally the ones on the Templates tab.
• The contents of our existing themes are notwithstanding much the same  (I cannot guarantees they haven't made whatever changes, but I haven't seen any)
• The themes that nosotros tin laissez passer on the axe pick out from when making a novel blog, or changing the format of an existing one, are the same.
• There are hundreds of assist as well as how-to articles written yesteryear blogger-helpers similar myself, which all refer to templates.   (I've started changing mine - but it's going to conduct maintain a while!)

What else is going to change?   

This is the large question:   Is the rename a precursor to another changes, eg restricting how much command nosotros conduct maintain over our themes? - or is it just a cosmetic alter to brand Blogger seem to a greater extent than modern?

Will at that spot last or thence novel themes released - ones that expect ameliorate across a hit of devices, perhaps fifty-fifty or thence that are optimized for mobile instead of desktop use?

Will at that spot last novel theme-editing features introduced into Blogger's interface, to permit us command things nosotros cannot command now?

Conclusion / TL-DR

Only Google's Blogger production managers know precisely what the hereafter plans for Blogger are - as well as they're non known for talking close the hereafter direction  until they're just close to innovate novel features.   

But until they do, my determination is that there is no divergence betwixt templates as well as themes inwards Blogger.  They are just ii dissimilar words for precisely the same thing.

NB:   Blogger production a announcements are commonly made inwards the Blogger Buzz weblog - as well as I run across that template were notwithstanding called templates inwards their most recent postal service inwards Nov 2016:

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