Home

 

TypePad Template Tags

 

Templates in the TypePad system are your method of defining the design and layout of your site. Templates describe where you want your content (that is, your entries and archives), what that content should look like, and so on.

TypePad offers the Template Builder to create basic templates. TypePad subscribers on the Pro subscription plan can create Advanced Template Sets that allow them to edit their templates directly.  Generally these templates will be made up of HTML, interspersed with TypePad template tags and variables.

This document explains more about Advanced Template Sets and provides an overview of the most commonly-used template tags.  It also links to the default templates.  You can use these as examples to work from, or restore your weblog templates from them if something goes wrong in your template creation.

What are Advanced Template Sets?

Advanced Template Sets are templates that can be customized through direct editing of HTML, CSS and TypePad template tags.  Advanced Template Sets are created when existing template sets built by the TypePad template builder are converted.

Why would I want to convert a template set?

If you know HTML or feel comfortable adding or removing TypePad template tags, you may want more control over your design and format of your weblog.  You may want to customize your weblog in ways that are not possible with the template builder.

Also, you may have an existing weblog design built for another weblogging system that you will want to import into TypePad.  Converting template sets is for those users who feel comfortable getting their hands dirty with the technologies behind template sets.

See Creating an Advanced Template Set to set up an advanced template set for your weblog.

Intro to Template Tags

Template Tags

Advanced Template Tips

Default Templates





Copyright © 2003-2004 Six Apart