problem with new templates installation

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mmlug Reply #1, 20 years, 2 months ago

Dear All Developer,

I’m testing now Modx CMS and it rocks. But i have some difficulties with new templates installation. I have read this tutorials(http://modxcms.com/template-basics.html) , but it is not very clear to me.
I have download this template (http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,6235.0.html) and want to install it.

So i do the following things...Login as admin and resources->Manage resources-> New templates. And at there give a templates name. And copy all this code and save it.

Templates.txt

 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">

<!-- this template was designed by http://www.tristarwebdesign.co.uk - please visit for more templates & information - thank you. -->

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" />

<title>[(site_name)] - [*pagetitle*]</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" />
<meta name="keywords" content="[(site_name)] - [*pagetitle*],More keywords,goes,here" />
<meta name="author" content="Your Name / Original design: Tristar Webdesign - http://www.tristarwebdesign.co.uk/" />

<!-- style sheet links -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="[(base_url)]assets/templates/judgement/style.css" />

</head>

<body>
<div id="container">

	<div id="header">
		<div id="logo"><h1>[(site_name)]</h1></div>
	</div>
	
	<div id="left">
	
		navigation links:
		
		<div>
			[!DropMenu!]
		</div>
		
<!-- 
		<div class="submenu">
		
			sponsored links:
			
			<div>
				[!DropMenu!]
			</div>
		</div>
-->
	</div>
	
	<div id="right">
	
	<h1>[*longtitle*]</h1>
	
	[*content*]

	</div>
	
	<div id="footer">
		 	{{judge_footer}} 
	</div>

</div>
</body>

</html>

But it dosen’t work correctly. Can i upload templates design files from Admin Area?

many thanks in advance.

mmlug

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doze Reply #2, 20 years, 2 months ago

You also have to upload the css file to your webserver into assets/templates/judgement/ directory as it’s included in the head section.

Or you could do the css file as modx document.

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silent Reply #3, 20 years, 2 months ago

Due to the flexibility of MODx - and the lack of a "template-exchange" method - there are some things to consider when re-using MODx templates: Whenever, for instance, you encounter something like "{{blabla}}" you should be aware of the fact, that this is a reference to a so-called "chunk" (named "blabla" in this example) which is stored separately from the template and thus must be created by you (as a "resource") in the MODx-manager. The same applies to other references, which are identified by square brackets "[ ]".
So, before being able to re-use other templates you should make yourself able to detect references to MODx-elements which reside outside the template and must be created separately before being able to use the template in its entirety.