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re: How to you open a .lrtemplate' on the template folder for editing of the "Syue

Can you elaborate? What's “Syue?. Well that its kind of dumb on my part. I must of bumped my keyboard just before posting. “ Syue" was meant to be “styleData.”

re: if you need to directly edit a template, open it with a plain text editor. The templates are in the
     .../Lightroom/ Web Templates/ folder. Specific location depends on your OS: http://ce4.theturninggate.net/docs/doku … b_template

Yeah, I figured the above issue out after I sent my post yesterday, Thursday. Though it is nice to learn that I am doing, at least, one thing right. Albeit a minor enforcement that I am doing one thing right.

re: What is it that you're trying to do?

Lets start here next because this is where I'm have all the trouble. I’m attempting to set up a “CE4 Theme for Wordpress, first by the three major steps there, which also leads to six major steps at “Universal Setup” in the “CE4 Documentation” webpage. Spent hours on this task, several times, only to learn the everything I have entered in the R.H Column has not been saved. I’ve been working on this endeavor nearly full-time for six weeks and yet to publish one theme webpage. This exercise has really beat down even though I’ve been a professional software developer for over forty years.

In the “Installing the Theme” document where the leadoff sentence states, "After using the Lightroom plugin to customize and export your theme, you will need to add the theme to your WordPress installation.” I have yet to get past this step with over a hundred hours of trying.

I did not ask for help earlier because I assumed that using the Lightroom Web module is far from being “rocket science.”

Anyway, yesterday, I determined that I must need to save my Web Template once I enter the parameter inputs in the R.H. column. I assumed that the “Save Time by Sharing Templates” document provided the procedural steps that I needed to perform. In this document it states, at the bottom of page 1, "Save your design as a template using the “Template Browser; this will be your source template.” I could not find any “Save” button or "Save” menu item within the Template Browser side of things, so I decided that the “Export” button in the R.H. column is what I needed, This Export would not let me enter a ’.lrtemplate’ file extension in what I just exported. This is when I wrote my support post yesterday. Obviously that R.H. column “Export” button did not produce the results I required. I now understand why I could not enter a ’.lrtemplate’ file extension on this folder. This action does not export a Template file, but something else I am not sure what.

My User and Groups rwx bits are 744 for my CE4 templates. Don’t think that this file access should matter.

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I observe that the TTG documents are fairly well written, but sadly there is no road map providing where to start and the exact order procedural steps to be performed. I do realize that there is more that on set of desired procedural steps depending on what your desired end results are. I’ve spent hours on reading the TTG documents attempting to identifying were to start and the exact procedural step order. X before Y or Y before X? I start X only to lean that I need to do Y first.
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FWIW: I do appreciate your help and your very prompt response.
       I like your ttg-tips blog too. Very nice that you provide this information.