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Looking at the style page here, http://www.s9y.org/44.html. It mentions the best way to design a new template is to copy a template subdirectory and create a new one.

I've done this and went to admin page to see if the new template showed up, but it doesn't. Am I missing a step here?

Hi!

Did you copy all files, and then change the info.txt to change the name of the template to your new, own one? Having a unique name is important to distinct it from theother...

HTH.,
Garvin

Hi Garvin

I renamed the info.txt in the template folder like you said but the template still doesn't show up in the manage styles admin page.

The subdirectory I copied was "default" and renamed to "test".

So, you should now have two identical directories:
/serendipity/templates/default/
/serendipity/templates/test/

The /serendipity/templates/test/info.txt should have the following contents:
Name: New Template Test
Author: Your Name
Date: 07/01/2008
Require Serendipity: 0.8

When you go to the admin screen and click Manage Styles, the new template should be visible. The templates are displayed alphabetically by directory name.

You can delete all the other files in the test/ directory, and only include the ones that you intend to modify; all others will be taken from default/.

Yup, those are the steps I did.

Is there a configuration I'm missing? Do I need to add the template to a list somewhere else?

I'm guessing the template list on the admin page isn't generated off the folders under /templates/

As a test I removed one of the default templates, while the asset files were missing(imgs, css, etc), the admin page still showed the template as there (title, author, date, button to set as template, etc).

Fixed. Looks like I was pointing to the wrong serendipity install.