Help:Using Templates

This is a guide on how to use The Fashion Codex templates that are available at your disposal.

In order to use a template, you first need to create a new article which you can do by searching for the article you'd like to create in our search bar at the top of the site.

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  Search bar at the top of the site.

After you've put the name of the article you'd like to create into the search bar, it'll look like shown below.

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  Example designer being searched for.

Press the highlighted text with "Search for pages containing Example Designer".

You will reach a new page with the text: "Create the page for 'Example Designer' on this Wiki!" Press the highlighted text.

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  Create new page being highlighted.

After you've clicked highlighted link, you'll reach a new page where you can create an article. You will be greeted with this. You can find all available templates following the "greetings" message.

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  What creating a new article looks like.

Press 'Insert' and then move down to 'templates'. Press 'templates' and you will reach a new menu where you can search for your desired template based on the category of article you'd like to write.

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  Press 'Insert' before 'template'.

Search for the template based on the desired article you want to write, we'll pick 'Designers' for this example.

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  Press the 'Designers' option.

Press the highlighted blue button with 'Insert' at the top right corner of the menu.

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  Press 'Insert'.

It should looks something like this once pressed the blue 'Insert' button.

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  Pre-editable template.

This template can't be edited yet, but it's a very easy fix. Next to 'create' above the blue highlighted 'save page', you've got 'create source'.

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  Press 'create source'.

You will reach a new page that looks like this.

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  Editable source code.

You will see a text with "Designers", in order to fully edit the article with the template you've added. You need to add 'subst:' with the colon ahead of "Designers". It'll look like this "subst:Designers".

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  Subst: has been added to the code.

Scroll down and you will find a blue highlighted buttoned with "Save page".

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  Press the blue highlighted button.

Once that has been done, your newly created article with a pre-created template is ready to edit. You can press edit in the top corner next to 'read' and 'edit source'.

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  Press 'edit article' right next to 'read' and 'edit source'.

You will now be able to edit and write your own article. Happy editing!