I'm new to MT and need to support a site running 4.37.
Is the only way to edit templates via the MT admin panel? Initially I thought I should be editing the code in the default_templates folder.
There's some changes I need to make to templates like 'Javascript' and a few others. Ideally I'd like these code changes to take place in files so the changes can be tracked in SVN and deployed by zipping up files.
But it seems the only way I can get any of my changes to appear is by editing in the MT admin page (Design>Templates) vs actual code of a file on a server. This makes the process of releasing changes much more cumbersome because I have to edit each template manually vs coding locally and deploying the changes.
Is this just the way it is or am I missing something?
Thanks!
-Bob
Reported on Movable Type 4.3
Hi Bob,
In order to be able to edit templates as files, you should first go inside each and every template and link them to files on the server.
Go to:
Design => Templates
Then go inside any template.
Under "Templates Options" you would see an option called "Link to File".
You could supply there a folders' structure ending with a filename for that very template, or just the filename (without a folders structure).
If you are going to provide a folders structure, you should first create that/those folder(s), set their permission to 777 and only after that link a template to a file inside such a folder.
Movable type would create automatically the file, as long as the folders structure (if used) is created and its permission set to 777.
Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru
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Thanks! What is the default templates folder for then? Is that generally if we wanted to edit templates by file on the server we'd link the template in the admin panel (like you said in your response) to the corresponding default template and then edit the code from there?
Movable Type populates the blog templates from that default templates folder.