====== Template Information ======

Each template needs to provide some basic information about itself. This is done through a file called ''template.info.txt'' located in the [[devel:templates#directory_layout|template directory]].

Here's an example how such a file should look like.

<code - lib/tpl/example/template.info.txt>
base     example
author   My Full Name
email    me@example.com
date     2012-09-08
name     Example Template
desc     This is just an Example of how a template description looks like
url      https://www.dokuwiki.org/template:example
</code>

^ Parameter ^ Description ^
| base      | The technical name of the template. **[[plugin:extension|Extension Manager]] will install it into this directory.**((**It is important to have a unique base field value (i.e. template name) or an already existing template with that name could be overwritten.**)). See also [[devel:templates#template naming conventions]]|
| author    | The full name of the Template author |
| email     | E-Mail to contact the template author about this template |
| date      | The date of the last update of this template in YYYY-MM-DD form. Don't forget to update this when you update your template! ((**This date should be equal to the "Last updated on" date on the templates page in the repository.** This is needed for the automated update flagging used by the Extension Manager introduced in release Ponder Stibbons))|
| name      | The human readable name of the template |
| desc      | A description of what the template does and look like|
| url       | URL to where more info about the template is available |