Custom Template Groups

[evenmonkeys]

I ran a search and didn't find what I was looking for. Is there a way to put custom templates into a template group? I have a lot of templates that I've made and don't want them taking up the first 500 lines. Please help.

[Rich]

Hello,

Template Manager should work for you. Its a modification for 3.5.x on this site.

[evenmonkeys]

I've installed it but it does not have the ability to put custom templates into groups. =\

[DrewM]

Templeat groups can be add by making a hook in location:template_groups
and the code this:
$only['name']='name';

[evenmonkeys]

It's not working. O_O

[peterska2]

This is what I use for my cmps templates

$only['adv_portal'] = 'vBadvanced CMPS'; as a plugin in template_groups

Make sure you put the one for each group of templates as a new plugin as it makes it easier to remove them later if you need to.

Also, make sure you set the plugin to active.

[evenmonkeys]

I lied... it's working.

Is it possible to make this work for Custom Templates? I have like 300 custom templates that I'd like to segregate.

[peterska2]

Yeah

say you have a bunch of templates that start with peterska2_

then you would use

$only['peterska2'] = 'peterska2 rules';

repeat as desired.

NOTE: It will only group the ones that start the same.

[evenmonkeys]

Well... maybe it doesn't work for Dream's custom page wrapper. The templates all say page_blah_whatever. I make the plugin for page_blah and it doesn't work. It's still in the Custom Templates list.

[peterska2]

Try just making it for page instead

[evenmonkeys]

That worked. Is it possible at all to make it work for...

page_one
page_two
page_three

I mean... it's nice being able to close it now.... but yeah.

[peterska2]

nope you can only do it upto the first underscore in the template name

[evenmonkeys]

Bah! I want my money back! ; ;

[peterska2]

Typical ;)

[Antivirus]

very helpful, thanks! I was confused about whether or not the first var was the prefix of all my custom templates, this clarified.

[SleekSkins]

Hey I did this and it's working, but on the 'edit templates' page when I click on the template group it is supposed to expand but it isn't, I'm getting this JavaScript error:

'arry has no properties' in vbulletin_templatemgr.js on line 260
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My bad, did something wrong. I clicked 'custom templates' because I thought that was the one I created but mine was called 'custom pages'.

[craiovaforum]

This is what I use for my cmps templates

$only['adv_portal'] = 'vBadvanced CMPS'; as a plugin in template_groups

Make sure you put the one for each group of templates as a new plugin as it makes it easier to remove them later if you need to.

Also, make sure you set the plugin to active.

Is this working?

Because I cannot make my custom templates that start with "adv_portal" to group. I tried the same group name as the original vBadvanced templates and with a new name and I got the same result: no changes.

Obviously I tried with other templates and it works just fine but not with templates that start with "adv_portal"

Any suggestions?