Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wikia/@comment-26923740-20150825080406/@comment-24930713-20150902033333

It would help if you linked to the template or wiki you're talking about. But I'm gonna try and give as detailed of a response as I can and hopefully something I write will help solve your problem.

If you're adding info in source mode, simply adding the template does not automaticlly add the info you want to be in the infobox. So if you're just doing this: Then there is still more info you need to add before it shows up properly. This is what the page you're editing in source mode should look like. For this example, I'm using the template, Infobox character that currently exists on Community Central:

Which would look like this:

The way I laid out the template is more of a stylistic choice, I feel it's easier for me and others to read if most larger templates are placed on the page this way. Also, in order for any template to work properly, you have to:


 * Call the template properly by name
 * Using the template in my example, you would either call it by typing {{Infobox character or {{Template:Infobox character . I'm not sure if it matters if you add template or not, but I usually don't add it.


 * Use actual parameters from the template's code
 * Basically, templates can have a number of parameters within them that lets a page know what info goes to which parameter.(i.e. |age = 30, the parameter is age, the info that's being added is 30)


 * Making sure the template is properly closed
 * When adding a template always remember to place }} at the end of your template. I like to put it on a separate line just so it's easier to see where one template ends and another begins.

Hopefully this was remotely close to what you needed help with. If not, I'm sorry, but I don't understand the problem based off what you posted.