Changing templates wiped out my sideboxes?

[TShooters]

Whenever you change templates, you have to go to Admin/Tools/Layout Boxes Controller and click the reset button (bottom of the page) to turn them on. There's an add-on here that saves your sidebox settings: http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=260

Are you using the override system? If you customized the define pages, and copied to your override folders in includes/languages/english/html_includes/your (previous) custom template, they should still be there. Just make a folder for your new template and copy the define pages (from your previous template) into it.

If you did the above, check and make sure all instances of your template are named the exact same.

Hope this helps!

[mzimmers]

Thanks, TShooters. I do have a suspicion that I somehow accidently overwrote those files with the vanilla ZC versions. I just don't know how the shop continued to display the modified contents if that happened.

In any event, it was probably cockpit error, and it's fixed now.

I'll look at the add-on you mention; thanks for the reply.

[TShooters]

Something you could do next time, if you're not going to be changing templates often, is just rename those (language) folders to your new template name.