Tonight I tried to talk someone through adding the forum description to the template and he was having no luck so I tried it myself. I can't get the template copied to my theme to be picked up. I'm putting this as a task, not a bug, because it's late and it's possible I'm doing something stupid. I just wanted to note it so I remember to dig in more to make sure this isn't a bug since it's important functionality.

Michelle

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troky commented

What template did you copy (exact filename)?

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michelle
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advanced-forum.naked.forums.tpl.php is the file that need to be changed. This is what I tried. None of these worked and the cache was cleared each time.

1) Copied advanced-forum.naked.forums.tpl.php to the theme.

2) Copied forums.tpl.php over to the theme as well in case it was hitting that no-derivitive-without-original issue.

3) Copied 1 & 2 to the base theme in case there was an issue with subthemes.

4) Renamed advanced-forum.naked.forums.tpl.php to advanced-forum.forums.tpl.php to get rid of the style specificity.

At that point I was out of ideas and told him to just edit the template in Naked itself until I could figure out what's wrong. I haven't had time to dig into the code, yet. Might not be for a few days or more. I'm pretty swamped right now.

Michelle

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troky commented

2a) Use advanced-forum-forums.tpl.php anywhere in theme folder.

Template override (and future) naming convention is: advanced-forum-<template_name>.tpl.php

That is major todo for 3.x.

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michelle
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Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Ahhhh, that was it. And then the core forum template isn't needed. Definitely not a bug, then. Just didn't quite get my naming right. Been a long time since I've dug into any of that. I was just trying to help someone on IRC so ran thru it on my own site to try and figure out what was going wrong.

Thanks!

Michelle

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aLearner commented

troky and Michelle,

Thanks so much for helping out! This is very useful information! I'll try it out and report back.

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aLearner commented

troky and Michelle,

Just confirming that the steps above did solve the issue I was facing. So, all is good and things work as they should.

Thank you for taking the time to clarify things for me. It's much-appreciated.

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modctek commented

I'm not clear on how to change the naming of the files. In my case, using the Silver Bells theme, but I want to alter the layout of the topic icon legend.

If I read the above correctly, I should copy "advanced-forum.naked.topic-legend.tpl.php" to my theme folder and rename it "advanced-forum-topic-legend.tpl.php"?

Also, what if my theme has a "templates" folder. I'm assuming it should go in the top-level of the theme directory and *not* into that sub-folder.

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troky commented

advanced-forum-topic-legend.tpl.php is proper filename. You can put it anywhere in your theme (sub)folder.