Joomla! 2.5 Beginner’s Guide

Backing up and restoring a customized template

Editing a template directly in Joomla is a great way to tweak the layout as you go. You're able to apply changes in the backend and immediately preview the effects of every adjustment you've made. However, there is a drawback: all changes in the template files are only stored on the web server. If for some reason you were to re-install the template, these changes would be lost.

To prevent this from happening, back up the template as soon as you've finished customizing it. This is how you do it:

1. Start up your FTP program and browse to the folder that contains the template you want to backup. In case of the jp_genesis template, this would be something like /httpdocs/templates/jp_genesis. Here httpdocs ...