Export templates
By Ian Shere on Thursday, 27 June 2019
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I can't see it, but I thought I'd asked this before. Is there no way to export templates? Maybe I'm the lone voice "crying in the wilderness" for this, but it seems a sensible feature. For those design houses that offer blogging as part of their websites, I'm sure they all (like us) have standard favorite custom templates they use, or use with minor alterations per client.

Currently I have 4-5 big templates I need to copy from one blog to another. They all comprise multiple blocks (15-20 at least each) which takes an awful long time in recreating by hand all over again.

Failing this feature, what do I need to export and import in PHPMyAdmin to do this?
Hey there,

Do you mean that you want to export your existing post template into your new site's post template?

If I understand wrongly, can you explain more about it so that we can have a better understanding of it?
Irwin
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Thursday, 27 June 2019 11:12
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Yes, this is exactly what I was about to ask..
Is it possible to export a post template and then import the post template into another website?
Ulysses Gonzalez
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Wednesday, 10 July 2019 16:35
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Hey there,

You can export the table `#__easyblog_post_templates` of your old site into your new site.

But before that, you need to rename your table `#__easyblog_post_templates` of your new site before you import the table `#__easyblog_post_templates` of your old site into the new site.

Take note that you need to replace the '#_' to your table prefix.
Irwin
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Wednesday, 10 July 2019 17:52
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Thanks, but just to clarify; it's not an old site, just another site...
where would I find this table exactly?
Ulysses Gonzalez
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Wednesday, 10 July 2019 19:25
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Yes, that's OK and I'm comfortable doing that, but it's pretty clunky. Why not add code to allow a "Post Export" from within EB?
Ian Shere
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Wednesday, 10 July 2019 20:37
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Sorry, but I believe you lost me at.. code then again at post export
Ulysses Gonzalez
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Wednesday, 10 July 2019 20:52
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No problem. All I'm suggesting is that Stackideas add the "Export Post" routine to the EB code to allow us to choose, by checkbox, which post templates we'd like to export. Once export, we'd need Import Post to import into the other site. Just like any number of other components have Import/Export routines built in.
Ian Shere
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Wednesday, 10 July 2019 21:08
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Hey there,

where would I find this table exactly?


You can find it from your database. If I understand wrongly, can you explain in details so that we can have a better understanding of it?

No problem. All I'm suggesting is that Stackideas add the "Export Post" routine to the EB code to allow us to choose, by checkbox, which post templates we'd like to export. Once export, we'd need Import Post to import into the other site. Just like any number of other components have Import/Export routines built in.


Thanks for your suggestion. I will log this into our issue tracker.
Irwin
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Thursday, 11 July 2019 12:10
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You can find it from your database. If I understand wrongly, can you explain in details so that we can have a better understanding of it?


Is there a way you can instruct in simplistic terms that can take a blog template saved on one easyblog website and import this onto another easyblog website.

The template is amazing, but having to reset a new template each time for many websites can be a lot of work..

hoping someone can help..
Ulysses Gonzalez
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Friday, 12 July 2019 14:11
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Hey Ulysses,
Is there a way you can instruct in simplistic terms that can take a blog template saved on one easyblog website and import this onto another easyblog website.

The template is amazing, but having to reset a new template each time for many websites can be a lot of work..

hoping someone can help..

We already logged this into our issue tracker and we will see if we can include this export/import post template feature before we release stable version of 5.3.

If you urgently help for this, please start a new thread on our forums so I will guide you how to manually export this from your site A then how to import these post template data to site B.
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 12 July 2019 15:55
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You're the bomb!
I can wait a week or two before really needing if that helps Arlex.
Ulysses Gonzalez
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Friday, 12 July 2019 18:52
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Thanks for understanding
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 12 July 2019 20:04
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