Please, please, please, please re-add the ability to export templates without a database. Lack of premade MP templates for the articles database, including feed block templates, is directly related to Pages requiring we export the entire database, which makes absolutely no sense for the database that is preinstalled, and doesn't actually work for it, and that's not even considering the point that block templates cannot be exported via any means. Those of us that can code cannot help those that cannot premade in this area with the way it is now. I cannot even do a custom locally with the way it is now, as there is no way to transfer such, which ends up with me working on a live site. Not cool. I was actually waiting for a topic such as this to be made. If somebody with a basic clue and can code like myself is struggling due to this, I can't imagine how painful this is for the layman, and the surprised look from staff was not expected... I put in a feedback topic a while ago begging for this to be restored, and have left it since then, but it is a very real need.
I agree. The casual hobbyist and enthusiast admin are highly limited with what's out of the box and there continues to be an expectations gap of what IPS markets Pages to be and what we can actually accomplish.
You're correct. You will need to add a data tag to your topic theme template where you want it to appear. So if you created a data field with a data key of 'source_url' and attached it to topics, then the data saved for a topic can be accessed like this: {$topic->source_url}In your specific case, I believe you would want to do something such as: {{if $topic->source_url}}
<div class="ipsPad">
<strong>Source:</strong> {$topic->source_url}
</div>
{{endif}}
