Tutorial Video: Converting a Joomla 1.5 Template to 1.6
July 6, 2010I made a casual video this evening on converting a J! 1.5 template to J! 1.6. I hadn’t practiced or rehearsed this video at all before the recording because I wanted to see just how easy it would be and how much time it would take to get it done.
Surprisingly, it took just a few minutes to port the Usability template, found on this site, over to 1.6. The biggest caveats that I ran in to were the template params being renamed “fields” and “fieldset”s and the template overrides changing. I didn’t dig in to the template overrides yet but a quick glance told me they are the biggest change. Below is a video with my findings, enjoy! (don’t forget to turn on HD to watch it in it’s best quality!)