Magento 2 - How to extend customer account creation template

Question

I want to extend the customer account creation template (register.phtml) of the Luma theme. I copied the register.phtml to my custom theme directory:

\app\design\frontend\my\theme\module-customer\view\frontend\templates\

and modified it. After flushing the cache and refreshing the browser I can't see my changes.

What is wrong?

Is it always necessary to copy the template in a custom theme folder or is it also possible to copy it to the view folder of my custom module?

Thanks.

Marco

Answer 1

Solution: I tried the hints, but they didn't solve the problem. After searching for a while I figured out the following path which is working:

app/design/frontend/my/theme/Magento_Customer/templates/form

Answer 2

your current path of template file is worng

\app\design\frontend\my\theme\module-customer\view\frontend\templates\

the correct path will be

\app\design\frontend\my\theme\module-customer\templates\

Answer 3

Copy the layout file to your theme.

Copy the customer account creation layout XML file from below location

/vendor/magento/module-customer/view/frontend/layout/customer_account_create.xml

to your theme that you’re editing

/app/design/frontend/<Vendor>/<Theme>/Magento_Customer/layout/customer_account_create.xml

If the template folder does not exists then create a template folder in the given path

/app/design/frontend/<Vendor>/<Theme>/Magento_Customer/templates/form/register.phtml

replace the below line of code of layout file (which one is copy from core magneto)

<block class="Magento\Customer\Block\Form\Register" name="customer_form_register" template="form/register.phtml">

to

<block class="Magento\Customer\Block\Form\Register" name="customer_form_register" template="Magento_Customer::/form/register.phtml">

Copy the html code from below location and paste into register.phtml (which one is created in theme directory)

vendor/magento/module-customer/view/frontend/templates/form