Customizations Not Working?!?!

I'm a new Zenner and I've read tons of threads and posts on the forum. My problem is that after creating a new template used the overrides system I can't get my edits to take. The changes are reflected in the various files but my webpage looks the same http://oneposhshop.com/Shop.

I wanted to edit the following:

1. The meta tags and title
2. "Copyright © 2007 Zen Cart. Powered by Zen Cart"
3. "TagLine Here"
4. " Congratulations! You have successfully installed your Zen Cart™ E-Commerce Solution."
5. "Main Page Sample Text ... This section of text is from the Define Pages Editor located under Tools in the Admin.
To remove this section of the text, delete it from the Define Pages Editor."

(I will post the direction that I followed as well as my current code in another post momentarily to minimize scrolling and facilitate comparison)

Thanks in advance,

Rochel

You have to create a template override in the language folder as well.

So in /includes/language/english/templatename/ and copy the files in /includes/language/english/ here. but not the folders.

In /includes/language/english/html_includes/templatname and copy the html_includes files into here.

so you have to create the template folder into the paths to the english files and html_includes file.

Does that make sense?

Thanks Birdoasis,

I've done that already. I've edited the following files for my various issues:

1. Meta Tag & title Edit:
   includes/languages/english/Posh by Trois Soeurs/meta_tags.php

2. Copyright Edit:
includes/languages/Posh by Trois Soeurs/english.php

3. "TagLine Here"
includes/languages/english/Posh by Trois Soeurs/header.php

4. "Congratulations!..." Edit
   includes/languages/english/Posh by Trois Soeurs/index.php

5. "**Main Page Sample Text ..." **Edit
includes/languages/english/html_includes/Posh by Trois Soeurs/define_main_page.php

I also deleted the text from the Define Pages Editor in the Admin but every time I go back to it the text is still there.

I pretty sure I've done everything correctly, that's why I'm so confused!

NOTE: You would really be better off without the spaces in your custom template directory name ...

This can lead to issues ...

Ajeh:

NOTE: You would really be better off without the spaces in your custom template directory name ...

This can lead to issues ...
Do you think that could be the cause?

I am not positive but with the number of replacements for words and terms and just how the web runs, it is better not to use spaces, special characters, caps, etc.

Ajeh,

I went through and changed the names to Posh_by_Trois_Soeurs and then I reselected Posh_by_Trois_Soeurs as my template from the Admin. Now when you visit the url:http://oneposhshop.com/Shop its blank. any suggestions?

Could you switch to Classic for a minute and make sure all is working?

Did you change all override directories on your site?
/includes/modules/languages/your_template_dir
/includes/modules/languages/english/your_template_dir
/includes/modules/languages/english/html_includes/your_template_dir
/includes/templates/your_template_dir

I switched to Classic and the site is no longer blank.

Ajeh:

Did you change all override directories on your site?
/includes/modules/languages/your_template_dir
/includes/modules/languages/english/your_template_dir
/includes/modules/languages/english/html_includes/your_template_dir
/includes/templates/your_template_dir

With respect to the override changes, I never made any folders for my template in the "modules" folder

I tried to make a new template which I named "posh" (eliminating any possible spa to see if thcing issues) to see if thta would restore anything to the site so I wouldn't be stuck with classic as the only working template. I copied all of the files from the various Posh_by_Trois_Soeurs folders and I changed the template_info.php file and then selected the new tempate from the admin but it's still blank.

Help :frusty:

I hate when this happens! It's like standing in front of the Cheerios in the Supermarket and asking a salesperson where the Cereal aisle is !!!

So now that I posted how nothing was working (and it really wasn't) all of a sudden I swiched back to my Posh_by_Trois _Soeurs template and it's no longer blank and even registered many of my changes.

Either it's haunted or it's haunted:lookaroun

But Anyway hopefully the rest of the changes will take and then I'll be on my way.

Thanks for all of your help.

This was sooo weird

Rochel

Your browser may have been holding on to the old version of your site. When you changed back to the classic template and then created a duplicate of your custom one, it may have cleared the old, incorrect settings out of the browser's cache and reloaded the site correctly. :D I'm glad you've got it going.