Need help after cloning default to new template extension

[DCS]

I cloned to the default template to a new template extension called id_1.

On the Designs>Templates page, I selected the new template.   

On the Designs>Layout page, I selected the new template id_1 and the Home Page layout, and Saved. 

I deleted 2 items from the Social Icons block and Saved. 

Nothing happened. 

So I deleted the same 2 items from Social Icons on id_1 and the Default Page Layout, and Saved.

I cleared cache on the browser and AC. 

Nothing happened.  The Social Icons did not change on the front end. 

Whenever I return to the Layout page on the backend, the template setting has returned to Default instead of id_1. 

Questions:

How do I make the Layout page stay on id_1 instead of returning to Default template every time. 

How do I save changes to layouts within the the id_1 template and then actually see mu changes on the front end? 

I'm working on xampp.  No live site. 

Thanks!


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[abantecart]

Make sure you edit correct layout. There is default layout that is applied on all pages that are not applied on layout types present.

What page are you looking at?

[DCS]

I can go to Design>Layouts and select the new template id_1, then click Save. 

If I go anywhere else, then return to Design>Layouts, the template reverts back to Default template. 

Why does it not stay on id_1 template? 

While in Design>Layouts, I made simple changes to BOTH the Home Layout and the Default Page Layout, but the changes do not occur on the front end. 

This is not an intuitive work flow. 

I must be missing some elemental step, but I have no idea what it is.

I cloned the default template using the "extension" process.  I selected the clone, then I made changes to it.  The changes do not occur on the front end. 

Furthermore, every time I go back to the Layout page on the back end, it has reverted back to Default template instead of staying on my id_1 template. 

I have good success building websites with joomla and T3 Framework and t3_bs3_blank template, so I am not completely new. 

I cannot make the 1st step in customizing an AbanteCart template extension after I create the clone extension. 

What step am I missing?

[DCS]

I cloned the default template using the extension process. 

The clone is named id_1. 

The id_1 clone is available in the list of templates. 

How do you make the site use the clone id_1 template instead of the default template? 

[Basara]

I cloned the default template using the extension process. 

The clone is named id_1. 

The id_1 clone is available in the list of templates. 

How do you make the site use the clone id_1 template instead of the default template?

Hi. Go to Admin > Design > Templates and set your new template to be default for your store. If you don't see new template make sure you have it installed in Admin > Extensions > Templates

[DCS]

I can go to Design>Layouts and select the new template id_1, then click Save. 

If I go anywhere else, then return to Design>Layouts, the template reverts back to Default template. 

Why does it not stay on id_1 template? 

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Every time I go back to the Layout page on the back end, it has reverted back to Default template instead of staying on my id_1 template. 

[abantecart]

Can you PM access to your admin?

[DCS]

It's local, xampp. 

I played with this thing enough to know that I want to build a simple store with it. 

I'm gonna nuke everything and start over without sample data. 

I'll put it up live, and you can take a look at that one. 

[DCS]

Problem did not occur on fresh install without DemoData. 

http://forum.abantecart.com/index.php/topic,1340.45.html