Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-17301772-20160514014145

Hello, sorry if these are sort of dumb beginner problems, I'm new to Wikia and to coding in general. I want to make a character infobox template for a wiki I'm contributing to. The default character infobox contains a lot of information fields (such as "birth place", "height", and "weight") that are either unecessary or that I want to replace with other information (such as "status" and "first appears"). I'm not trying to do anything too fancy, like multiple tabs or images.

Most of the help I've found has advised making a new template, but I can't seem to find where to find that option or how to do that. I also tried copying and pasting the code for character infoboxes from other wikis to the Source Editor (I would also like to know how to source codes borrowed from other users properly), but they come out as red "Template:xxx" and I'm not sure why this happens.

http://community.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:2Actimv/Part_6._Contributing_to_a_Wiki:_Making_Infoboxes_(Templates)

The codes offered by this user seem helpful but are a little off and don't produce the right outcome; I'm not sure where the error in the code is, however, but think that fixing this may be the simplest solution to my problem.

Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you! 