Behind the Scenes: Template Path Hints
As briefly presented in our Designing for Magento Webinar last week, Magento’s next release will feature a new tool that will make Magento designers’ and programmers’ lives easier; Template Path Hints. This tool will display the path and file name of the templates constructing the page viewed.
We hope you’ll like it 
1DavePit.com |posted January 24 2008
I noticed this in the Webinar, a genius feature that will surely make things easier on me
2Travis |posted January 24 2008
This’ll help BIG TIME. Can’t wait for the next release.
3kadima |posted January 24 2008
Thanks
4Rowan from Australia, QLD|posted January 24 2008
This reminds me of one of the new Drupal theming modules (http://drupal.org/project/devel), it’s nice to see that great minds do think alike.
5WisdOMbooks from Kolkata (Calcutta) - INDIA|posted January 24 2008
This is real a GREAT tool,
even for non-programmers
who are thus spoon-fed
into easily reaching specific codes.
(Drupal apart) I don’t know
of any other ecommerce system
having such a nice facility.
BEST COMPLIMENTs
to the whole team!
6jfbonham |posted January 24 2008
Excellent feature, really great.
Presumably it’s easy to see the full path by clicking on it or selecting the path text - in some cases such as the currency box in the above screenshot, the box is narrower than the path.
Looking forward to using it as it should be quite a time saver. Reminds me of the Inspect tool on Firebug.
7Loïc from Paris, France|posted January 24 2008
GREAT ! It was really important to have this released !
8Web_Addict from Paris, France|posted January 24 2008
very nice ... this will really help us and save time !!
Go go magento
9tzCart from NW Ohio–USA|posted January 24 2008
What is it that is providing this functionality, CSS and property hidden?
It’s a great feature need more details, I need to catch that webinar soon.
Another great feature would be to be able to right click an area or product and be able to edit the details (for site admins) right in the layout. Does Magento do that, some CMS’s can do that if not natively, then by using a plugin extra goodie.
The design hints is just brilliant, and will help get up-to-speed, with much less of a learning curve.
Mage -N-Toe
10NickL |posted January 24 2008
GO GO MAGENTO!
I’m glad you all got this in there, it beats out having to use the old php insert method and will definitely speed up designing templates. I look forward to playing with it!
Good job Folks!
11Greg from Carmel, IN USA|posted January 24 2008
Will the next release be provided via the update tool ala the install in 0.7.148?
12Otaugames from Troyes, France|posted January 24 2008
Thank you ! Designing is going to be a bit faster as we won’t have to search anymore for a file.
13iguru from Děčín, Czech Republic|posted January 25 2008
super!
14Josue4ever from Mexico DF|posted January 26 2008
Well it looks good very helpfull for newbies and xperts. Well, I have to ask this… When is spected a newer version? because some people couldnt install 7.148
GOGOGO MAGENTO (1 go more)
15peach |posted January 27 2008
awesome, I so need this tool!
16jlaha |posted January 30 2008
GREAT idea. The white text on red background, with that font size is a little tough to read however. I’m guessing this can be modified in the CSS file that handles this styles for these hints.