Reverting custom templates in v 3.7.2 PL1

**Steve Machol** · Wed 27 Oct '10, 8:26am

There is no temporary revert option. What I suggest you do is copy-n-paste the contents of those templates into a text file, then revert them for testing. That way you can always refer to or restore the original custom code if you need to.

**SCH** · Wed 27 Oct '10, 8:48am

Hi Steve, thanks for the response.

I was going to do exactly as you've suggested - just copy and paste the current template code into a simple text file, revert and see what happened, I was just hoping there was an easier way to do it through the vBulletin Admin CP. Unless something adverse or weird happens, I'd be happy just reverting to the default templates and making them active. Like I said in my original post, there's only 11 custom templates, so it shouldn't take TOO long to try your suggestion.

However, that raises another question: If I find the custom templates are indeed needed, how would I go about updating to 3.8.6 PL1? Would I revert all the custom templates in 3.7.2 first, perform the update, then replace the new templates with the custom code of the old templates, or can I just go ahead and update hoping the installer script(s) will leave the custom templates in place?

Sorry for all the questions. Again, my experience and knowledge of vBulletin is at the novice level at best.

**Steve Machol** · Wed 27 Oct '10, 8:55am

You can revert the templates after upgrading or before. It really makes no difference.

**SCH** · Wed 27 Oct '10, 8:59am

So does that mean the installer scripts won't replace the custom templates when running the update to 3.8.6 PL1?

If that's the case, then this may simply be a situation where the previous owner/admin of the site modified the templates in question when the site was running v3.5.x, but never bothered to update/revert the templates after updating.

**Steve Machol** · Wed 27 Oct '10, 9:09am

No. Custom templates are not replaced.

**SCH** · Wed 27 Oct '10, 9:24am

So that may very well explain why the custom templates exist on my site in the first place - because they were never replaced during updates since the installer scripts don't replace them with the default templates.

I'll try your suggestion to investigate the effect of reverting the templates (one by one), and if there's no adverse changes to the site I'll perform the update with the default templates in place. Otherwise, I'll leave the customized templates and perform the update as normal.

Thanks again for the help Steve.

**SCH** · Wed 27 Oct '10, 10:38pm

Alright, I've been doing a little more digging into these custom templates and I have a couple more questions.

1. All of the custom templates look to be part of something called a "Kirsch - Fixed" style. What is this? Does this Kirsch - Fixed style come bundled with vBulletin (I'm trying to determine if this style was added after the vBulletin install)?

2. According to the Style Manager, Vb Default style is the active style on my site. Does this mean that I can safely delete the other styles (there's a total of 3 styles: Kirsch - Fixed, Vb Default, and vBulletin 3) without adversely affecting my forum?

**Steve Machol** · Wed 27 Oct '10, 11:57pm

1. No. That is a third-party style.

2. Probably. But I would just turn those off for now. You may need those for reference later.

Reverting custom templates in v 3.7.2 PL1

Reverting custom templates in v 3.7.2 PL1

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