Custom templates

@mbdelong

The proper folder structure for a custom template would be:

wp-content
  -> connections_templates
     -> template-folder-name
        -> template.php
        -> meta.php

Is this what you have?

Yes, that is exactly what I have. In meta.php I have:
<?php
$template->name = ‘card_name_first_picture_change’;
$template->version = ‘1.0’;
$template->author = ‘MBD’;
$template->description = ‘Listing by name’;?>

And in template.php I have the same code that used to be in ‘card_name_first_picture_change.php’.

The strange thing is, I tried installing a template, but it looks like those are entry templates or something. But anyway, after I did that, one of the custom templates started working (card_mod2) even though there is no folder in connections_templates for it. (Here’s that one: https://ppbaonline.com/directory-2/)

If you click on “Click here for members sorted by last name”, it brings up the page that doesn’t work.

I also tried putting them in the connections\templates folder – I think maybe that’s why card_mod2 is working. However, I put the other one there too, and it’s not working.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Mike

When I go to that link, it does seem the card_name_first_picture_change template is working.

You’re right – now it is working.

What I don’t understand is how the other template is working (card_mod2) here: https://ppbaonline.com/directory-2/ when the only folder in the connections\templates folder is card_name_first_picture_change, not card_mod2!

@mbdelong

It really doesn’t matter what the folder name so as long as it matches what is being used in the shortcode with the template option. Or perhaps, you have the card_mod2 in the /connections_templates/ folder.