Joomla template folder not showing in template manager

Question

I am trying to create a template.I have created a folder for template in templates folder and also created two files index.php and templateDetails.xml

My index.php has following code

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">  
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="<?php echo $this->language; ?>" lang="<?php echo $this->language; ?>" >  
<head>  
<jdoc:include type="head" />  
</head> 

<body>

<jdoc:include type="component" />  

</body>
</html>

and templateDetails.xml has following code which yes I copied because beginner.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>  
<!DOCTYPE install PUBLIC "-//Joomla! 1.5//DTD template 1.0//EN"  
 "http://dev.joomla.org/xml/1.5/template-install.dtd">  
<install version="3.1.5" type="template">  
       <name>template _tut</name>  
       <creationDate>31-01-2009</creationDate>  
        <author>Nettut Fan</author>  
        <authorEmail>your@email.com</authorEmail>  
        <authorUrl>http://www.siteurl.com</authorUrl>  
        <copyright>You 2009</copyright>  
        <license>GNU/GPL</license>  
        <version>1.0.0</version>  
        <description>Template Tut</description>  
        <files>  
                <filename>index.php</filename>  
                <filename>templateDetails.xml</filename>  
                <filename>css/template.css</filename>  
         </files>         


        <positions>  
                <position>breadcrumb</position>  
                <position>left</position>  
                <position>right</position>  
                <position>top</position>  
               <position>user1</position>  
                <position>user2</position>  
                <position>user3</position>  
                <position>user4</position>  
                <position>footer</position>  
        </positions>  
</install>

My joomla version is 3.1.5 and despite doing above mentioned steps my template folder is not showing in template manager.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 17 '13 at 07:07

You need to install the template to register it completely.

There are 2 ways of doing this:

Download your files, zip them up and install it as you would any other extension.
In the Joomla backend, go to "Extension Manager", then "Discover". This will detect uninstalled extensions and should bring your template up in the list. check it and install it

Hope this helps

Joomla template folder not showing in template manager

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