How to Add Date to a Non-Blogger Template

If you upload a blog template from one of the many free template sites, often little tweaks occur; like losing the date and time stamp from your blog posts. This happened to me when I was updating the TWTA Newsletter and I searched all over the place for a fix. I found a couple of sites with complicated fixes involving HTML changes, which didn't work.

But I did learn that Blogger template creators design their templates to work with specific date and time stamp formatting. I went into the blog's settings, changed the date format and Booyah!, dates appeared on my posts. So before you start digging into the template HTML, try going into the Dashboard under Settings > Formatting and try different time stamp / date combinations. A simple fix for a simple problem.