By Andrew Neighbour on Thursday, 17 May 2018
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I am having a lot of problems creating new post templates. The How To Guide is obviously for an earlier version as it does not work in the way described:

How To create a post templete documentation

Namely:

1) if you open composer, there is nowhere to save a blog as a template;
2) if you create a new template under Posts>Templates>New it is not possible to define the default category for posts created with the new template; there is nowhere to define an image for the template. All you can do is add blocks and marrk as private or shared.

Can you please provide some guidance here. This site is going to draw multiple bloggers who will post into specific categories, and we want to make the process of posting for them as error-proof as possible.

It looks like you have made changes from the behavior defined in the documentation, without updating the doc...or am I missing something?

Many thanks,
Andrew
Hi Andrew,

Yes the documentation for EasyBlog post template is outdated. I will log this in our tracker so we can update it.
1) if you open composer, there is nowhere to save a blog as a template;
The only way to save a post template is by editing the template layout directly from the templates section.
2) if you create a new template under Posts>Templates>New it is not possible to define the default category for posts created with the new template; there is nowhere to define an image for the template.
It is not possible to select a default category for post templates.
For post template thumbnail, you would have to click on the post template then upload your thumbnail for it: http://take.ms/2tPz1
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Thursday, 17 May 2018 12:02
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Thank you for your reply. It really is a shame that you have moved to this method of template creation rather than the one on version 3 as outlined in the documentation. Being able to create a post and then save it as a template gave increased customization ability, including defining the category that the template would automatically be assigned to. In my specific case, creating a prose/poetry post from a prose/poetry template and having it assigned by default to a painting/image category is confusing and potentially error prone.

Please reconsider your decisions here and give some serious thought to improving the templating process.
Thanks!
Andrew
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Thursday, 17 May 2018 21:47
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Hey Andrew,

Thanks for your input.

I actually tested saving a post template in the older version(5.0) and the category is not saved.

I also checked the post template table in the database and there is no category data associated with the post template.
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Friday, 18 May 2018 17:09
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