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Ive modified my theme, but why cant I see the changes?
The chances are that all your modifications are there but the reason for not seeing them is because your browser is still seeing the old version. After making changes to a theme, you should always carry out the following:

1- be sure that you set "Update module template .html files from themes/your theme/templates directory?" to "YES" in General Settings!
2- Delete all the files (except any index file) in the templates_c folder in the root of your site.
3- Configure your browser to always look for a new version of a website, or
4- Delete all your browsers cached files.
5- Refresh your browser and visit your pages again.

This nearly always remedies the problem. If your changes are still not visible, then it's time to re-check your work.

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 Display of theme updates

 toddherrold   Published 12/30/2004 0:32   Quite a regular   Joined 06/13/2004   Comments 274    

thanks for the great process description. works like a charm.

 
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 thnx

 crazypope   Published 02/03/2005 9:03   Just popping in   Joined 02/03/2005   Comments 2    

thnx for your help i did go for the templates but not for the themes...i'll try to load some themes to look if i can see the difference.

 
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 problem solved

 davidthomas1   Published 03/16/2005 16:10   Updated 03/16/2005 16:11   Quite a regular   Joined 11/05/2004   Comments 384    

I solved this problem by updating my module in admin>modules>update After that, the template changes were reflected perfectly

 
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 One more thing

 rob777   Published 04/18/2005 5:05   Just popping in   Joined 01/21/2005   Comments 45    

I tried all the above suggestions, but I still couldn't get my additions to show on the module index page.

I have been using my website cPanel "file manager" or Dreamweaver to play with the files. And they were working before. But wouldn't this time.

Then I remembered that a few hours before, I clicked generate templates for this module in my admin>templates manager area.

So I tryed to add my changes with the "edit" template, in the template manager area. BINGO, first try and the changes were there finnally. It took me a hour to figure this out.

Apparently after you generate the templates in the template manager, you have to edit the templates in there also.

If I am incorrect, please say so. But this is the conclusion I just came to.

Later,
Rob

 
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 Re: One more thing

 Mithrandir   Published 04/18/2005 7:49   XOOPS is my life!   Joined 06/21/2003   Comments 6320    

If you change the physical files, only the default template set is updated on module update.

It would kindof defeat the purpose if your customised templates were overwritten every time you updated a module.

 
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 Re: One more thing

 BrickTop   Published 05/10/2005 13:41   Just popping in   Joined 04/14/2005   Comments 16    

well done all of the above and failed to see any changes on my index file. As for deleting the files in the template_c folder forget about it, after doing so all you'll get is a blank page.
Out of clues in here

 
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 Don't delete index file?

 allnewtome   Published 09/02/2006 23:38   Not too shy to talk   Joined 11/30/2005   Comments 175    

Being tired, I just deleted everything from templates_c. What is the 'index file'?
Ta

 
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 Re: Don't delete index file?

 Herko   Published 09/03/2006 10:40   XOOPS is my life!   Joined 02/04/2002   Comments 4238    

There's an index.html file in the templates_c folder, that protects the folder contents from being listed in a browser, as an added security precaution. If you remove that, your folder contents is open to the world to browse through (and maybe take advantage of).

Herko

 
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 Still nothing...

 bdkraven   Published 02/06/2007 16:07   Just popping in   Joined 11/12/2006   Comments 15    

I don't have that first step's option.

Only thing I have is "Check Templates for Modifications?" I figured this to be what I need and have it clicked to yes.

I went through and followed the steps, even deleted the .html theme files I tried to update and left them off the server, but when I refresh, they are STILL there!

 
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 Re: Still nothing...

 vaughan   Published 02/06/2007 16:18   Friend of XOOPS   Joined 11/26/2005   Comments 680    

did u empty the templates_c folder?

 
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 Re: Still nothing...

 bdkraven   Published 02/06/2007 17:14   Just popping in   Joined 11/12/2006   Comments 15    

I sure did, however someone may have been on the site as I was doing it. Could that cause the problem? Should I maybe turn the site off for a few seconds while I do this?

 
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 *sigh*

 bdkraven   Published 02/06/2007 19:11   Just popping in   Joined 11/12/2006   Comments 15    

No dice :(

What could be causing this?

 
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 Re: *sigh*

 bdkraven   Published 02/06/2007 19:26   Just popping in   Joined 11/12/2006   Comments 15    

Fixed it. For some reason, the theme includes weren't dynamic, they were pointing to an old file...now if I can figure out why everything in IE is centered instead of Left align like in Firefox

 
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 Re: *sigh*

 carnuke   Published 02/06/2007 19:27   Home away from home   Joined 11/05/2003   Comments 1955    

Check again

1- delete All files in browser's cache
2- Make sure update theme files is set to yes in admin
3- Delete all files in templates_c
4- Check your theme file is CORRECT for what you expect to find displayed.

 
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 Re: *sigh*

 carnuke   Published 02/06/2007 19:28   Home away from home   Joined 11/05/2003   Comments 1955    

Smile ... it's a good learning curve

 

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