Host your blogger theme’s images on your own Photobucket account

Blogger is the most popular blogging platforms worldwide. It is because it is easy to use, its free, you can add widgets and get a lot of good themes for free. There are tons of blogger themes on the internet. There are some themes too that you’ll need to pay to use. A handful of themes are provided by blogger too but they aren’t much attractive. But you can find a lot of good quality professional templates elsewhere and that too for free. Many of these templates are supplied by popular sites like eblogtemplates, themesforu etc. They usually host the images used in the theme on free photohosting sites, mostly on Photobucket. But do you know, sometimes you feel terribly helpless if you use such themes. Photobucket provides a limited montly bandwidth for each account and as there are thousands of others using the theme from the theme source site, the bandwidth is easily consumed. When full bandwidth is consumed, the images used don’t show up in your blog and your blog goes totally weird.

So, what can you do? Do you want to read those comments the other day with your readers shouting at you for a dumb template? Well I guess no and here’s the solution. If they use Photobucket to host the images you too can. Or if you have a paid hosting of your own, you can put your images there too. Anyway for now, lets use Photobucket.

First you’ll need to download all the images used in your theme created by others. Sometimes, the theme providers gives all the images in a separate folder and sometimes not. So, first download all the images used in your theme. Open your theme in a text editor. You can use a text editor like notepad or a bit advanced one like Notepad++. Find all the occurrences of .jpg, .gif and .png in your theme source using the find command(ctrl+f). Just copy the ful url with .jpg, .gif or .png at the end and paste them on your address bar to see and download the images. In this manner, download all the images that are being used in your theme. The URL of the images will look like this:

After that, go to Photobucket.com. If you already have an account, that’s fine else sign up for one and create a new album in your account. Give it the name of your theme. Now upload all the images used in your theme to this album. If you create an album named themepics and your username is cooldude, your image URL will look like this:

Now go to your theme and replace the album link already being used in the theme with your album link. In the above case, you should replace http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu131/eblotemplates/album/ with http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu131/cooldude/themepics/. Use “Replace all” to replace all at once. Now upload your theme to blogger and you’re done.

So, by hosting your blogger theme’s images on your Photobucket account, you’ll never have to worry about bandwidth exceeds.