Install styles without editing Templates Again!

[mallupirates]

Hi Guyz,

I have a smaaaaaall...:) doubt!. My doubt is that, in my forum, i keep changing the styles during special festive seasons. For example, until this season of christman, i used a default style for my forum in which i did all the template edits. The problem is, when i install a new style, none of the modifications i did on the previous style gets integrated to this style. I have to do it all over agin. My question is; is there a way by which when importing a new style, the template modifications of the previous style can be automaticcally integrated to the new one?:confused:

Please, please help me as I'm fed up of constantly editng templates after installing a new style!!:(

[Lynne]

If you add the new style as a child of the style you have made your template modifications in, then many of your edits will be inherited by the new style. You may have to do a little bit template modification or reverting though since you never know what templates the new style has edited.

[mallupirates]

thanks for the info lynne, but we'd still have to do edits rite? but the problem is that, its hard to find the edit codes again, as i keep on installing newer products often. so i have to come back at vb.org and find them again. is this the only way lynne?

[Lynne]

You don't always have to do edits. If the new style didn't change the postbit template, then you will inherit the (perhaps modified) postbit template from the parent - so no editing needed. Or, go to your new style, click edit > View History > Compare and you can see the differences between the downloaded template and the parent template and edit in the differences.