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Automatically Back-up MT Templates
I was reading PromoGuy's list of handy little MT tweaks and loved The Girlie Matters's tip to back-up MT templates with "link this template" feature in four easy steps.
1. In each of blog directories, create a folder called "templates" and set the permissions to 777.
2. Pulled up each template for editing and assign a linked file to each one. Example: for Main Index Template link to a file called "templates/mainindex.tmpl".
3. Saved the template, which generates the necessary back-up file in the templates folder.
4. Download all the template directories to your local drive so you have a copy if something happens to your site.
As easy as pie and saves all the trouble of copying and pasting each template to a text file, which is what I had been doing. Since I currently have nine different skins and some of them have different templates from others, that could take a while to do. Kudos on a quick and easy way to do back-ups.
.: Posted August 2, 2002 12:44 PM in Geeky Things :.Trackbacks on this post: 0
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You can also save them in one single folder outside your servers WWW scope, if you have FTP access. Then you can download the entire folder instead. Well, I suppose you'd have to make sub folders to accomodate for all your skins, though.
.: Torgny said on August 2, 2002 02:30 PM :: link it :.Post a comment
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