Thread:Hatebunny/@comment-25012939-20140915215704/@comment-3361105-20140915220742

Well, it's allowed so long as you don't muck around in the established templates or create any wonky categories.

There isn't really any bible on how to make templates, but here's a brief primer:

Templates work by using parser functions, strings, and if-then logic, separated by pipes ("|").

So, the function #if is the most used function we have.

For example, most of our templates use the #if function to check if a field is filled out, and then have a set output based on whether it is or it isn't.

Like so:

It's a true/false logic.

In a lot of cases "the field you want to check" is represented by a variable, which could be anything, but is typically a word or number wrapped in three curly brackets, like this:.

So, would check if  was filled out, and if it was, it would output "Poot!" and if not, "Noop!"

The rest of templating is all just nesting more of those kinds of if-then logic questions inside each other and learning the other parser functions and how to use them.

Here's wikia's crappy page on the subject: http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Templates