Threaded Comments in Blogger

At long last the great day has come where we have threaded comments in Blogger. I plan to do a lot more replying to readers through this feature. (As it is now, I reply when I can through email to comments).

However, I thought I'd give a little tip to those of you who, like me, have customized templates. I love my design and didn't want to lose it, but I was dying to have threaded comments. First, make sure that you've changed your settings as outlined in this blog post.

If you have all those settings correct, and it's still not working, I've got one more trick for you. First, back up your blog template by going to the new blogger dashboard, clicking Template, and then in the right-hand corner clicking backup/restore. Go ahead and download your template. This way if anything gets really messed up, you can put it back right.

Then, still in the template window, click Edit HTML

 It's going to warn you that you shouldn't change anything unless you are super advanced. We won't be changing much, so click Proceed.

Then, click Revert widget templates to default. Save your template, and close.

If you refresh your blog, you should see the reply button in the comments section.

If your blog is seriously messed up from this, you can just upload your template back.  If this doesn't work for you, I've heard that blogger will be putting out a tutorial to do a little more with the HTML to make it work. I expect that will happen in the next day or two. As soon as I see it, I'll link to it here.

EDIT: It looks like my custom signature got deleted when I reset my widgets. If this happens to you, just follow the instructions in this post to get it back. It didn't mess up the comment threading for me after I added it back in.

EDIT: If you want to try your hand at changing the HTML code instead of resetting widgets, you can follow the instructions at this website. I haven't tried them, so I can't guarantee their reliability.