Hello, I’m trying to edit the width of positions 1, 2 and 3 in a particular template. But when I do the changes I make to that particular template are occurring in ALL my templates.
For example, in the template titled "Interior_Page_Template_3" I pulled out positions 1, 2 and 3 so that they extended the width of the screen. I saved my changes. When I went to view the site, the homepage which uses template "LaurieTest_2" was showing positions 1, 2 and 3 altered as I did in the "Interior_Page_Template_3".
Can you explain to me what is happening and how I can edit specific templates without affecting the other templates in use?
You are using a very old template release ( 1.1.3 ) and T3 Framework release ( 2.5.2 )
After you taked a whole website backup ( database and folders ) update both extensions
After updated you can do in this way , instead to use a template copy you can duplicate the layout file and work with it
To have it done go to this folder /templates/ja_biz/tpls/ and copy and past the home.php file renaming it as you prefer ( newhome ) then when you edit your new template layout, changing positions width select the new file from layouts .
I apologize, I’m not a developer and I don’t understand where you are telling me to paste the copied home.php text.
When I follow the file path you are suggesting and click on the tpls folder I am not given any area to paste into it just shows me a bunch of sub menus (see screenshot).
I copied the new layout file in /tpls folder and named it new-home , then i assigned this new php layout file to your template style "Interior_Page_Template_3 " and changed positions width.
As you can see the changes are applied only to this layout style, your layout "LaurieTest_2" is still keeping it’s own settings
This isn’t something that I am able to do as I do not have access to the web server to access these folders. I was able to edit each template individually by going to templates/styles and then clicking the desired template within Joomla! to edit. I did not have any problems with my changes affecting other templates until recently. Is there a way other then the way you described above (since I don’t have the access to perform those steps) that it can be done in Joomla!? It seems ridiculous that the functionality is presented but doesn’t work properly.
This isn’t something that I am able to do as I do not have access to the web server to access these folders.
Hi
This can be done also inside Joomla itself, it is not needed to access web server, also i already done it, so you do not have to do nothing else, but only to select the proper layout already created by me.
It seems ridiculous that the functionality is presented but doesn’t work properly.
It works fine, if you know how to do it, everything is already described into T3 Framework documentation HERE
Can you explain step by step how you accomplished this? Your explanation is not clear to me. I have to do it again with another template file.
There is nothing much that i can add to what was already into the documentation
You should follow these steps : for example let’s say you want to duplicate and change default layout
1) Copy default.php file in this folder /templates/ja_biz/tpls/default.php and rename it for example default-new.php
2) Duplicate a template theme for example ja_biz default and call it ja_biz default_new
3) in this new template assign into layout tab your newly created layout file (default_new)
4) Now you can change all settings in this new layout and if you want to add new positions or change positions order to it then you can edit your /templates/ja_biz/tpls/default_new.php
Ok, I followed all your steps and created a new template called "Pages that use positions 4 5 and 6 Template", I went in and turned OFF positions 4, 5 6 in the "large" view under layout. This change is STILL AFFECTING THE ENTIRE SITE. I want to be able to edit a template so that I can apply it to the home page and it not affect the rest of the site.
