Webmaster mode quit working
 

I've been using the webmaster mode successfully for a couple of days, and now all of a sudden it quit working.

I have rebooted the computer, no success, and I don't know what else to try.

Thanks for any help/

Rob

re: webmaster
 

Try to turn it off at admin zone->Webmaster, button "Close Webmaster mode"

this is odd, mine stopped working also, and whats evern weirder is that I reinstalled everything, dropped all the tables in the databases and did clean install and all... i'm guessing it has something to do with my settings in my browser? the little pop up window that used to appear doesn't anymore, and i get a "Invalid Character" error in line 254 char 87 code 0 in admin/editor_mode.php

webmaster-mode doesn't work for me -- either!
 

Hi All,

My webmaster-mode has also stopped working -- I still can see the templates via the debug window (debug console is enabled) -- but, I can no longer directly edit any of the form labels like I used to be able to do. Is this something that maybe x-cart developers need to look into?

Regards,

J

still no luck
 

I turned off webmaster mode, shut down browser, restarted browser and turned on webmaster mode, but it still doesn't work.

If I restore all files, it will start to work, but at this point I have made too many changes to my files to resore the originals and start over again.

There must be a particular file I can restore to get it working? I have sent a message to Tech support, but this is a weekend so I don't know when I'll get a response.

If I get a solution, I will post it here.

Rob

oddly enough, it just worked just right now.. and i swear i didn't do anything different! i just installed opera browser and tried it on that, didn't work too well, and then tried it on IE6 again and it works !

Answer
 

I've looked through your templates and noticed, that you
are using compiled templates. It means that all $lng.* variables in
every template are changed by their values which are stored
in the database. So when you try to alter variables in Language section or in webmaster mode, every variable value is changed in database.
And when the browser loads page, $lng.* variables values are taken from database and are put on the screen only if you are using not compiled templates. Because in compiled templates the values are already there but not variables $lng.*.

It is not necessary to compile templates. This feature was made for increasing the speed (because we don't have to
find anything in the database).

Webmaster mode works only with not compiled templates.

There is no way to convert complied templates to uncompiled.

one way to remove all the other language entries in the database is run an sql command to delete all but the ones that you want to stay.

each language has a language code ie US / GB English = US

so you could run this to remove everything but US / English