Board Thread:Off-Topic/@comment-25266140-20140805031839

A template is a very special type of page that is designed so that content can be put into other pages. Templates are used to reduce duplication and help promote a uniform like style between pages.

Templates can be used for...

- Creating content that should appear on more than one page

- Allowing users to format content (such as infoboxes) and do so way in a that is consistent for many       pages

- Creating a shortcut for writing things that can repeated a lot when talking with others

- Protecting parts of page from editing while leavingn other sections of the page open for it instead.

How to create your first template

- On a page here at R2D Wiki, go Template:Example and click "Create"

- Type "Hello, World" in your editor

- Click "Publish". You have now created your first template.

- Ceate a new page called "R2D Template test" (Going to create sandbox >.<)

- In editor, go to source mode and enter the following code: 

- Click Publish. Your "Testing Templates" page should pop up as what you added to page                                                                                                                 