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I purchased a theme that includes various channels, one of which is named “Blog”.  I tried changing it to another name (Administration > Channels > Channel Preferences: Blog), but the entries and templates associated with the channel don’t render after the name change.  Other than making the channel name change, what do I need to change?

You need to go through the templates and change the “Channel short name” wherever it’s used. For instance it may appear inside a Channel entries tag like this (assuming the short name is called “blog”):

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog"}
{exp:channel:categories channel="blog"}

Go to the template editing area and do a template search for ‘channel=“blog”’ - that will pull up all templates where it occurs, you can then edit each template in turn.

You could also use the Tools>Data>Find and replace[in templates] facility but only use this method if you know what you’re doing!

Hello chunky,

Rob is 100% right on the money. Now that the name has been changed references to the old name need to be updated.

Thanks for the assist Rob!

If you need anything else, please just let me know.

Cheers,