Forum:Createplate Problems

Hello,

I've been trying to scour the forums and help articles here to see if this has been brought up and adressed, but I haven't been having any luck.

On a wikia I help run - Celestial Refresh Wiki - we use createplates to give users pre-defined fields and formatting when creating new pages based on the type of page they want to create. I can only assume that it has something to do with the most recent wikia update, but a little while ago, our createplates just stopped working properly. While we can create a blank page, trying to utilize ANY of the createplates - or even previewing what is to be created - will result in an error screen:



I assured our users that this was probably just some bug with the new wikia software, but this has been going on for a couple weeks now, and riverting any changes to the createplates made between now and back when they worked doesn't help.

Thanks for the help.

Keeeen 17:51, February 6, 2011 (UTC)
 * Looks like it's a bug, about it, and they should be able to help  Random Time  17:53, February 6, 2011 (UTC)
 * I sorta figured, but wanted to get it out here just in case it was a site-wide problem; also needed a place to link to the screenshot for an error in my contact post. Thanks. Keeeen 18:00, February 6, 2011 (UTC)
 * Smart, a scan of this thread - doesn't show any reports of the same issue, but I don't think many wikis use createplates any more  Random Time  18:02, February 6, 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorta thought SOMEONE else would be running into this problem; and my contact message hasn't even been replied to yet. Keeeen 03:34, February 11, 2011 (UTC)


 * If it was a couple of weeks ago than that was around the time that the new 'layout builder' was introduced for testing on a number of wikis ! (coincidence ?)! Try posting in the blog for Layout Builder Testing or asking User:Kirkburn who I think has had involvement developing/testing with both page creation systems. - 17:34, February 11, 2011 (UTC)


 * Layout builder began testing much longer than a few weeks ago. I don't think this is part of that.


 * I don't think that error has anything to do with Create Plates. See Forum:Disappearing Wikis. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 12 Feb 2011 11:23 AM Pacific
 * So then here's the question: anyone know when the wikia staff will get back to me on this? It's been almost 3 weeks since I sent in a ticket about it. Not having the createplates is annoying, but what's really bugging me about this is that I haven't even gotten a correspondence or anything from them.Keeeen 18:13, February 21, 2011 (UTC)
 * If your e-mail address is not setup right in preferences or some other problem (spam filter on your e-mail account), you may not get the reply from Wikia correctly. This problem is also happening on Alone in the Dark wiki, see Forum:RE: problem with Alone in the dar.
 * Tagging this Staff needed. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 21 Feb 2011 12:43 PM Pacific

CreatePlates is being actively phased out, and now only exists on a few wikis that are still active AND using it. Some coming improvements to LayoutBuilder will be attempting to meet the usecases of these wikis, and once completely phased out, it will be retired entirely. --Uberfuzzy 08:13, June 15, 2011 (UTC)