How One Simple Click Solved The Problem

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Well this is what happened.

I had people telling me that they could not leave comments on my blog. This was because my blog was attached to Google Plus and only people who were associated with Google Plus could leave comments. So I asked a sweet blogging friend how to fix this. She tried to help me and sent me a screen shot of a button I needed to click. Thank you dear blogging friend.

I did not have that button on my comment template.

Nowhere. I could not find it.

For a week I tried to fix this problem. I searched Google. I read blog posts. I had clicked the revert to Blogger button. Still missing the comment setting.
Nothing I read seemed to help me with this issue.

So, last weekend I just decided I would try and do the best I could with the knowledge I had.

Now here we go.

I went to my template setting and clicked on the backup your blog button. I knew this was the first step to do when you make any changes. However, after clicking a few buttons that did not fix my comment settings, I decided to click the revert widgets back to default button. Now mind you I had backed up my blog, so I felt I was ok with my decision. 

I clicked the revert widgets button. Then, I clicked on view blog and my blog looked like it had been placed in a blender. 

Really, I was not worried. I had saved my blog.

Except that when I looked through the download folder, my blog file that I had saved was gone.

Gone. Nowhere to be found.

No problem. Well, maybe a little. But I had purchased a blog template from a third party. I would just download this template again and my blog would be restored.

Not even close.

I tried to import the third party template and when I did, a red pop up message told me I had malformed html or part of it was missing. I do not remember, at this point I think I might have passed out. Well, maybe just forgot to breathe. 

I do not remember what I did, but I found my missing file and imported that back to restore my blog. This did not restore my purchased template and now I had two of every blog post I had written.

I went through and deleted the extra posts. I adjusted the widths and made my blog look presentable. Before I gave up for the night. I did seek help from a Google site forum. 

The next morning, I had a notice in my email to a link that would help fix the missing comment setting. 

The first step was to restore Google Plus. 

Now wait a minute...

Pardon me, but I was trying to unplug from Google plus. 

So, I restored Google Plus.

This is the one instruction to return to Blogger comment settings. Click blog post to read the article.

Go to the dashboard Google+ menu entry, and unselect "Use Google+ Comments on this blog". The blog will simply return to native Blogger based Comments. 

Excuse me, I stressed for this one click? One click?

So, now my comment section is back to the original setting. 

But I lost every comment on every one of my blog posts, which makes me sad.

With things back to normal on my blog, I decided to add some CSS code and rearrange a few of the layouts.

While moving things, suddenly I noticed, all of my posts were gone from my blog. Not there. My husband checked on his computer. Nothing. No blog posts. 

After googling what I might have done, I had to simply reset my blogger template and my blog posts were back up on the blog.

Now, I feel like this gentleman and I am not clicking on any buttons or editing html code for a bit.

Well...

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