General Template and Update Question

[Dave-M]

Hi,

I am on 4.0.3 and I have customised my template to how I want it, but I was just told by someone that all the work I've done on this template may be lost when I do the next upgrade, say 4.0.4 as they may change the way the templates are put together, is this correct?

All I did was make a new version of the stock template, renamed it to something different and changed the colours using the stylevars, any images that were changed were kept as the same file name, so really it is the stock template, just looks different.

Am I likely to have problems when I upgrade? Is there any way to save all your colour changes other than saving the entire template?

Thanks

[Dave-M]

Anyone please?

[Valadur]

I had the same problem a few days ago when I updated from 4.0.2 to 4.0.3. During the update, the script tried to keep my changes and merge it into the updated template.

All changes that couldn't be merged appeared in the admin panel after my update, with the option to show where my customized template is different to the old and the new default one, and an option to revert the changes or edit the template to insert my changes into the new template.

All color changes that were made with the stylevars didn't cause any problems at all, these were all kept. Just the manual changes in additional.css or any other templates have to be checked after updating.

I found that solution very easy to use and re-doing the template changes were faster than I expected this way.

Hope this helps a little..

[Dave-M]

That's good info, thanks

[Lynne]

There are always template changes between versions - no one can know exactly how many there will be. They get listed in the announcement and required changes are listed under header "Templates requiring revert", or something like that. If you just make sure to check those templates out and see what got changed, then you should be fine.

[Dave-M]

Thanks Lynne, I never realised the changes were listed like that.