Refresh Blog Templates

You should be able to convert some of those templates to system templates by changing the "template_blog_id" value from whatever blog id is that to "0" ("0", without the quotes, stands for system level).

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Mihai Bocsaru

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Thanks Mihai,
I remember the Convert to Global plugin by Mark Carey and tried it. It has a MT 4.35 compatibility problem: convert to global for widgets does not appear in action_items. Modules and all the convert to blog actions work great. Appears to have been developed for MT 4.1(+?) when 4.1 was still using the Widget Manager plugin.

In trying to debug the plugin, I discovered I could simply modify the template_blog_id in the database as you suggest.

If I knew more about the internals of MT and plugin development, I could probably find the problem with widgets convert to global.
Thanks again,
Merv

You're welcome Merv!

When I need to do that kind of things, usually with Custom Fields, I prefer to do it directly on the mySQL database, than using a plugin just for the sake of not relying on external resources which could be subject to conflicts (not working anymore on a given version of MT).

There is one single thing you should be careful about. Always backup your database before making changes to it :)

Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru