HELP Some of my templates have disappeared!!

Well, not totally. The resources using them are still displaying correctly but the templates are not present in the Elements manager so I can't edit them. This seems odd to me as I'm running as Super User / Administrator ! I assume this is a permissions / access roles fault and that for some reason they are hidden from view but how can I un-hide them?

On looking at the Permissions nothing seems wrong.

To see if it's a permissions issue, make yourself a sudo user and flush all permissions and sessions. If they show up, it's a permission issue. If you have Category Access ACL entries for the Templates' categories, you need to add yourself to all the relevant User Groups.

If not, there's probably something wrong with the records for those templates in the DB (invalid parent or invalid category are the most likely). SiteCheck will find and fix them for you: http://bobsguides.com/sitecheck-promo.html or you can do it by hand in the DB.

Don't know which version you are running, but it might be worth a try.

I remember an ugly bug the prevented snippets, chunks, templates and plugins from being displayed if they were stored inside a category which was nested inside another category that had no content except other categories.

Example:



Its easy to make them appear again. Add some Dummy Content to the empty category and all missing elements in the children category show up again. Move all templates from that category so they fit into the rule I described above.