Outdated Templates
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Russ
Pixel Exit Staff
So PAGE_CONTAINER is a template we can almost all expect to see outdated every single release if you edit it. I'll post a workaround at the end but essentially it means that you've made an adjustment to the template and the parent has since been updated. Long story short... you need to re-apply your edits to the parent version of the template.
Ready for a long wall of text
In this example, my PAGE_CONTAINER is outdated, click "View custom changes" top right.
Scrolling down you'll see what changes I've added by what's in green:
This is a custom link I added, so I made a change on the template which has since been updated as I mentioned. Scrolling further down...
Red lines are what can be found in the parent style currently, with a red line directly below with almost the same content it means a change was made inside the line of code itself. Essentially here I'd copy the red line and go replace the green line directly below.
If you see a red line of code with nothing below it, it means that it's new code being added entirely so you just need to add it in the correct place.
Solutions / tools:
NotePad++
NotePad++ is a nice text editor which has abilities to add plugins, one of which is a compare tool. Often what I'll do is simply copy the entire contents of my custom outdated template, paste it into notepad++, then click revert on the template. Next, I'll go back into the template, open it (it's now up-to-date but has lost all your custom changes) and paste that into a new file on notepad++.
It'll look like this when comparing:
Left side is my custom template, the right side of the parent version that we reverted too. I can simply copy the code over easily and continue with my edits. When I'm all done simply take the right side, copy and paste it back into the PAGE_CONTAINER template.
Template modifications:
While template modifications aren't necessarily meant for styling (although I wish they would make it so) you can use them to avoid outdated templates.
This finds the current navigation link and adds in our custom link automatically.
I hope this helps... the fix for outdated templates is simply not a go here and do this type of solution. Sorry for the wall of text, I'll make work this into a sticky thread for everyone.
Ready for a long wall of text
In this example, my PAGE_CONTAINER is outdated, click "View custom changes" top right.
Scrolling down you'll see what changes I've added by what's in green:
This is a custom link I added, so I made a change on the template which has since been updated as I mentioned. Scrolling further down...
Red lines are what can be found in the parent style currently, with a red line directly below with almost the same content it means a change was made inside the line of code itself. Essentially here I'd copy the red line and go replace the green line directly below.
If you see a red line of code with nothing below it, it means that it's new code being added entirely so you just need to add it in the correct place.
Solutions / tools:
NotePad++
NotePad++ is a nice text editor which has abilities to add plugins, one of which is a compare tool. Often what I'll do is simply copy the entire contents of my custom outdated template, paste it into notepad++, then click revert on the template. Next, I'll go back into the template, open it (it's now up-to-date but has lost all your custom changes) and paste that into a new file on notepad++.
It'll look like this when comparing:
Left side is my custom template, the right side of the parent version that we reverted too. I can simply copy the code over easily and continue with my edits. When I'm all done simply take the right side, copy and paste it back into the PAGE_CONTAINER template.
Template modifications:
While template modifications aren't necessarily meant for styling (although I wish they would make it so) you can use them to avoid outdated templates.
This finds the current navigation link and adds in our custom link automatically.
I hope this helps... the fix for outdated templates is simply not a go here and do this type of solution. Sorry for the wall of text, I'll make work this into a sticky thread for everyone.
Russ
Pixel Exit Staff
Well, that was certainly not short
In my case, the only change to this template was to add my DFP code to the head section. It sounds like a template modification would be better suited for this code.
Thanks!
In your case yes, template modification would be nice. Outdated templates are difficult to explain so I had to be a little through all, and ideally, I'll turn this into a sticky as I mentioned
.