Upgrading Problems - wipes out customized template
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Hello C5 Community!
I am a designer who designs using C5 default templates but customizes them to build my own blocks, navs, and structure of the page by taking out elements like sidebars.
I am having problems with upgrading C5. Every time I do this is wipes out all my custom HTML and CSS, which I'm assuming is because the upgrade wants to upgrade the default templates.
I'm wondering how to upgrade while still maintaining the look of my sites.
I'm wondering if I should save my finished template as a customized template to avoid the problems I've been having?
thanks!
I am a designer who designs using C5 default templates but customizes them to build my own blocks, navs, and structure of the page by taking out elements like sidebars.
I am having problems with upgrading C5. Every time I do this is wipes out all my custom HTML and CSS, which I'm assuming is because the upgrade wants to upgrade the default templates.
I'm wondering how to upgrade while still maintaining the look of my sites.
I'm wondering if I should save my finished template as a customized template to avoid the problems I've been having?
thanks!
I'll assume that you are editing in /concrete/themes/
What you need to do is COPY what you want to edit into /themes in your ROOT above /concrete
Only files in /concrete get updated during an upgrade. Basically anything that you tweak or edit needs to reside in your ROOT folder structure, because concrete looks here FIRST to see if what it is looking for exists. If it does, concrete uses it and ignores the core code that exists in /concrete.
Does that make sense?