A widget is a portable chunk of code which can be installed and executed fully separately on any web page by any end users and no modification is needed to the original source code of the web page. Widgets can also termed as Gadget, Badge, Module, Webjit, Capsule, Snippet, Mini and Flake. Widgets are usually implemented by using JavaScript, DHTML or Adobe Flash. You need to back-up your blog's Gadget. The reason for back-up your blog's widgets or gadgets are the following:

• If you want to change your blogger template, then you must have to back-up your blog's gadgets.
• If you want to change the platform of your blog, then you also need to save the widgets or gadgets.
• If you want to ensure security of your blog's widgets or gadgets, you also need to keep back-up them.

This page contains the detail informtion to back-up your blog's gadgets.

There are many ways to back-up blogger widgets or gadgets. All the ways are applicable to take back-up of your blog's gadgets. Here, I only mentioned the easiest way to take back-up of your blog's gadgets. I will describe this method because it's the easies way to take back-up of your blog widgets. Now, to back-up all the widgets, follow the following steps:

• Type www.blogger.com on your browser's address bar and log in to your account.
  
• After successful log in, you will reach the Dashboard of your account.
• Select the blog which you want to keep back-up of gadgets. When you find the blog, look immediately below that blog and you will find an option Layout. Click on Layout. After accessing of this page, you will see small rectangle boxes. All these are the gadgets of your blog.

See there is an option Edit, each of the widget's right-bottom corner. Click on Edit. A pop-up window will be opened and you will find some code there. Copy the code and save them to a notepad file. Name the notepad file as you wish.

In this way, take back-up all of the gadgets and save them in the notepads.

You don't need to take back-up the following gadgets code:

• About Me gadget
  
• Followers gadget
• Archives gadget
• Label gadget

All the above mentioned gadgets are default to your blog and you can't copy the code of those gadgets. As those are by default, those will not be lost ever.

By following the above steps, you can take back-up all the gadgets of your blog.

Just copy the code and install to anywhere of your blog. For example, if you just take a back-up of any HTML/JavaScript code, you will add a HTML/JavaScript gadgets and paste the code to that gadgets. In this way, you can add or restore the widgets or gadgets to your new template or other blog.

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