The templates that I wish to group start with NewTemplategroup. And this is what I found:
Use newtemplategroup in lower-case as the array index, otherwise it doesn't work :)

// This works like a charm :)
$only['newtemplategroup'] = 'New Template group';

// This does not work :(
$only['NewTemplategroup'] = 'New Template group';

Thanks for the quick reply. I hope this helps someone :)

[quote=Oblivion Knight;803104]Want to cache templates or group custom templates in the Admin CP without editing the source code? Of course you do! Want to know how to achieve this? Read on..

Now in plain english the easiest way to do this step by step is:

Add a plugin to the following hook location:
Plugins & Products: Add New Plugin
step 1 example:

• Product: vBulletin
• Hook Location: template_groups
• Title: TEST TEMPLATES
• Plugin PHP Code: $only['testtemplate'] = $vbphrase['mytest'];
• Plugin is Active:Yes

Next you want to add the Main Titles phrase of your Grouped Templates
step 2 example:
Languages & Phrases: => Phrase Manager => Add New Phrase

• Phrase Type: GLOBAL
• Product: Either your product or the default which is vBulletin
• Varname: mytest
• Text: TEST TEMPLATES

Now the last step is creating the template or templates
last step example:
Styles & Templates => choose your current style unless you have debug mode on, you can chooseMASTER STYLE => Add New Template

• Product: vBulletin or Your Product
• Style: Your current style unless you have debug mode on, you can chooseMASTER STYLE to make this template for all the styles

• Title: testtemplate_HOMEPAGE
• Template: you can put your HTML/PHP or whatever code you like to put here. you can even say "hi!"
• Click save and go see your new group of templates called "TEST TEMPLATES"

I still give credits to Oblivion Knight, however, this I would rather say because it is far more easier to do these step by step. Now that I have gave you a break down on how to accomplish this the easy way, please feel free to rep me. But please, this original tutorial was by Oblivion Knight, I just broke it down in PLAIN ENGLISH! Thanks!;)

For some reason when I did this with a prefix with an underscore (_) it did not work, but as soon as I took the underscore out it worked just fine.

From the examples above it would appear that some people have gotten it to work with an underscore in their prefix, but it's just not working for me in 3.8.

But the thing is, all of my vBa scripts have underscores in their template groups (adv_portal, adv_links), so I know it should work.

Any ideas?

Works

Does NOT work

hello vB experts

i need some help
i tried to add template into ad location section (template)
and i did exactly the tutor said
temlate group
then i created the template within prefix ad_

but seem not work the template i created it till outside of the ad location group

any suggestion will be appriciated

Sincerely,

Don't include the underscore. Just the prefix name:

Not tested, but should work.

oh wow ... it works like champ

thanks so much .... Digital Jedi

I did it on my custom templates using 'Postbit' to try and put my custom postbits into that category with the default postbits that comes with vbulletin.

but for some strange reason i now have two "Postbit Templates" instead with the exact same spelling lol :(

Any help would be great!

I started creating products, and I am stuck

Can I ask, the footer and header templates, can it be a part of caching, or can I use the caching on footer or header template... and which templates can be reffered to or as $globaltemplates...

Here is the HOOK for caching my template below:
<hookname>cache_templates</hookname>

and my PHPCODE:
$globaltemplates = array_merge($globaltemplates, array('MYCODENAME'));

and my replacement code:
if ($vbulletin->options['social_five_on'])
{
$replace = '$ad_location[ad_footer_start]';
$vbulletin->templatecache['footer'] = str_replace($replace,$replace.fetch_template('MYCODENAME'),$vbulletin->templatecache['footer']);

IS this done right?

by the way this is for vB3.8