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Tagged: 8.2.1, cMap, custom template, template
- This topic has 3 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 11 years, 5 months ago by
Steven Zahm.
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03/06/2015 at 7:07 pm #321912
Susan
ParticipantI’m sorry, I should be able to figure this out but I can’t. Last year you helped me set up a custom template based on cMap. Recently our site went through major changes – a new theme and some other structural changes – and the customized template is still working but I can’t find it!! I know it’s working because one of the changes I made was to add a custom field (“Specialization”) between the title and organization blocks, and that content is displaying. On this faculty page the content in italics below some faculty titles is from that field.
There is a connections-templates folder in our current theme (2015-snc), but all the customized templates in the folder are old ones. I looked at all those template.php files to double-check. There is no connections-templates folder in wp-content/uploads/ or in /assets, which was the upload location for the previous theme.
Is there a way I can find the files?!
Thanks, Susan
03/09/2015 at 10:46 am #322104Steven Zahm
Keymaster@ Susan
It appears that you duplicated the cMap template to create your own derivative rather than creating the template override files. Nothing wrong with that method really…
Looking that the page source, your version of cMap seems to be in this folder:
../wp-content/plugins/cmap-directory/While the original cMap template is in this folder:
../wp-content/plugins/connections-cmap/Hope that helps!
03/12/2015 at 1:16 pm #322555GuestThank you so much! I thought it would be something dumb and obvious and I was right about that, at least. I think that when I started working on the customized template you were instructing users to set it up that way, by the time I finished the instructions had changed but it still worked.
Can I just move the folder to the theme connections-templates folder or are there other steps or changes I have to make to do that? I would prefer to have it in the location the instructions recommend.
It was very kind of you to not make a snide comment, if there was ever a support request that deserved one this was it.
Thanks, Susan
03/13/2015 at 1:56 pm #322730Keymaster@ Susan
re: It was very kind of you to not make a snide comment, if there was ever a support request that deserved one this was it.
Nope, did not deserve one at all and I hope I would never give one in response to a question.re: Can I just move the folder to the theme connections-templates folder or are there other steps or changes I have to make to do that?
The answer really depends was the maincmap.phpfile altered in any way. If it was and I’m almost certain it was, then I would say no, leave it as it is. It should continue to work just fine into the foreseeable future. I’m pretty certain you no longer even need the original cMap activated. I would deactivate to reduce resource usage on the server.Hope that helps!
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