I have few basic pages in drupal 7, named about, contacts. I tried to make page--about, and style it, but it doesnt work. Any advice on how to force hook basic pages?
In your themes template file you can get template suggestions. This was you can check there isnt anything weird going on. The following will dump out suggestions for templates.
You need to use the following:
function YOURTHEME_process_page(&$vars) {
var_dump($vars['theme_hook_suggestions']);
dsm($vars['theme_hook_suggestions']); //if you have Devel
}
You should install the Devel module, this helps alot with theming.
First make sure you're using the correct machine name for your content type. Go to content types and copy it from there.
Copy the node.tpl.php file from root/modules/nodes/ to your theme's templates directory.
Rename the node.tpl.php file to node--MACHINE_NAME.tpl.php.
Clear the cache in admin/performance/. This is important.
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I am new in Drupal and try to create my own Drupal theme. I have copied the Garland theme from theme/garland and pasted it to sites/all/themes/(renamed mytheme). But when I search on how to integrate templates in Drupal, there I got that I need four mandatory files: comment.tpl.php, page.tpl.php, node.tpl.php and block.tpl.php but in that theme there is no file name called block.tpl.php, inspite I have a template.php.
Please guide me on this, do I need to create block.tpl.php by myself?? If I create it what would be its content and how do I use that, also what is the use of template.php in my site.
I am new in this CMS (Drupal) so any response would be appreciable and helpful for me.
You can create your own block.tpl.php by copying it form modules/block to your theme's folder (remember to clear the cache!). template.php should contain custom overrides to the theme functions, as well as implementations of process/preprocess hooks. You can find an in-depth discussion about how Drupal's theme system work by following this link and in general by searching drupal.org website.
I just started working with Wordpress (v. 3.6.1).
I have OptionTree installed and as it seems it handles the Theme Options page. I want to run my function (in a plugin or wherever else) right after the user saves the changes of this page.
So far I found out that option-tree/includes/ot-settings-api.php generates the form and it sets the form action to options.php (which is a wordpress core file). I was thinking about change the action to my custom php file and handle the save procedure and finally runs my own function. But this solution looks pretty ugly.
I wonder if there's another way to get the job done.
Thanks.
Thanks to #Sheikh Heera link (tutsplus) I could find a solution.
I think this is some kind of hack and I still don't know if it is the best way. Anyway I did this:
Create a file your-theme-settings.php in your theme lib folder.
Let Wordpress knows about your file by adding this code in your theme functions.php:
include_once('lib/your-theme-settings.php');
Add this code to your-theme-settings.php:
function your_theme_register_settings() {
register_setting('option_tree', 'option_tree', 'your_theme_validate_options');
}
function your_theme_validate_options($input) {
// do whatever you have to do with $input.
}
add_action('admin_init', 'your_theme_register_settings');
In step 3, I put 'option_tree' as 1st and 2nd argument of register_settings function, because I noticed that the Option Group and Option Name of OptionTree plugin is option_tree.
I'm not sure if this is the best solution, so I would be glad if you shares your ideas.
I wanted to override page.tpl.php for specific content type.
I have tried these thing, nothing works for me.
page--article.tpl.php
page--node--article.tpl.php
page--node--type--article.tpl.php
page--node-type--article.tpl.php
page--type--article.tpl.php
But when I targetted specific node by number i.e. page--node--8.tpl.php it worked fine.
I think page--article.tpl.php should have worked, but I dont know why its not working.
Please tell me if I am naming it wrong. and how can I debug such things. I have heard I can use Devel module, but know nothing about it. A slight hint in right direction will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
You have to make sure that your template can handle this ... I got a code snippet that worked for me here:
http://drupal.org/node/1089656#comment-4426790
<?php
function themeName_preprocess_page(&$vars, $hook) {
if (isset($vars['node'])) {
// If the node type is "blog_madness" the template suggestion will be "page--blog-madness.tpl.php".
$vars['theme_hook_suggestions'][] = 'page__'. $vars['node']->type;
}
}
?>
Have you remembered to clear the cache (under Administer > Site configuration > Performance) so that Drupal is 'aware' of your new file & uses this rather than the default.
See here on Clearing cached data
Also, you may need to add a preprocess hook (I haven't used D7 myself, just 5/6 — think this has changed slightly.) This post on Drupal Stack Exchange seems to give more details
I just ran into the same problem.
node--recipe.tpl.php
not
page--recipe.tpl.php
this is, of course, with a content type called 'recipe'.
ALWAYS CLEAR THE CACHE...
Go to /admin/config/development/performance and click the clear cache button. It should be the first thing you do if you've made alterations to the structure of the backend and they're not showing as expected.
Otherwise you almost had it right
page--content-type-name.tpl.php
will allow you to theme the content type template.
I know this is an old question but if others arrive here, the way I override content types in drupal 7 is like this
node--contenttype.tpl
You will need to overwrite the specific node template for the content type if it is anything different than a Basic Page. Please check this out:
http://api.drupal.org/node/19080
Under this page copy/paste the items that are in the node.tpl.php page and overwrite it on how you want. You can access the node specifically by $node
Your template for articles would be:
node--article.tpl.php
Once this is created make sure you clear cache to ensure this works.
So depending on what you are trying to accomplish, there might be some CSS tricks that could help you out.
For instance, to override any CSS rules for a specific node type just remember that your pages for that node type will have a body class of "node-type-[TYPE]" (ie: .node-type-article)
You can then override the CSS as follows:
body.node-type-article #selector {}
Step 1.create a content type for example: my content type is "fullwidthpage"
Step 2. copy page.tpl.php and rename to page--fullwidthpage.tpl in template folder.
Step 3. Add this code to template.php
function <strong>YOUR_THEME_NAME_HERE</strong>_preprocess_page(&$variables) {
if (isset($variables['node']->type)) {
// If the content type's machine name is "my_machine_name" the file
// name will be "page--my-machine-name.tpl.php".
$variables['theme_hook_suggestions'][] = 'page__' . $variables['node']->type;
}
}
Don't forgot to change YOUR_THEME_NAME_HERE
I am using WordPress 3.2.1 ,
Page template selection drop down is missing on Pages (Add,Edit)
wp-admin > Pages >Add New > Page Attributes
I Edit the Template Page Default page as below code
/*
Template Name: New Template
*/
But still the template drop down no visible , my older version of WordPress it display by default.
Following is the screen shot for more idea
I solved this problem solved by adding the typical following code:
/*
Template Name: Custom
*/
Don't add any spaces after Name:
It'll work if you use template name: as well.
It might help someone: check if your index.php file is in place.
If it's not there, wordpress treats the template as corrupt and it doesn't display the template selection.
This should be simple to troubleshoot. The requirements for the page template to work are straight forward:
The template needs the page title in the top of the file like you've shown (the title needs to be wrapped in a PHP tag, you probably just didn't add it with your example bu I want to make sure you havne't overlooked it):
<?php
/*
Template Name: Custom
*/
?>
The second requirement is that the file is in the root of the theme folder.
With those two requirements in place, it should work. If it isn't working you nave a few possible issues. I list a few off the top of my head:
You might need to re-install WordPress in-case a file was corrupted
during your last update.
It's possible someone has altered the WP-Admin layout using users
roles.
That's all I can thing of at the moment, let me know how it turns out.
I had the same issue. It actually turned out to be a missing style.css file within the template directory in my case.
This happens because the get_post_templates() in class-wp-theme.php first checks for errors. If it finds any then it returns an empty array (no templates are displayed).
A side effect of this is that saving a page would clear the existing template and use the page.php instead.
So in short if the errors() method of your theme returns any errors then no templates dropdown.
hope that helps someone.
Same issued, I found out that in appearance panel in your WordPress dashboard the stylesheet is missing. You shouldn't rename the style.css in your theme folder.
Not sure if this will help anyone, but we solved the problem by disabling our theme and re-enabling it again. We had some other theme folders in the theme directory that we weren't using so we deleted those out as well. good luck, it's a really random problem to solve!
yeah!template dropdown not showing because you have no template So how to solve this::---
1 create template folder in theme
2 create a template in this folder
like:-
<?php /* Template Name: Home */ echo "template"; ?>
and check-in page dropdown will be there.
Hi
Anyway to stop people browsing the Drupal home page and redirect to my specific html page?
Thanks you
For Drupal 7 you need to use page--front.tpl.php
If your theme doesn't have a page.tpl.php that you can copy, then copy it from your base theme if you are using one or:
modules/system/page.tpl.php
This should be placed in your custom theme folder in (assuming this is not a multisite):
sites/all/themes/my_theme
I tend to structure my themes as follows:
my_theme.info
templates/html.tpl.php
templates/page/page--front.tpl.php
templates/node/node.tpl.php
templates/block/block.tpl.php
css/style.css
But it doesn't really matter where it is, it will be picked up after a cache clear.
If you have specific HTML page that it is on the server and doesn't generated from Drupal, the most easy way is to use Drupal goto.
How to do it? open your template.php and search for page_preprocess function it should look like that:
YOURTHEME_preprocess(&$variables, $hook) {
if( drupal_is_front_page()) {
drupal_goto('yoursite.com/yourpage.html')
}
}
change YOURTHEME to your theme name and clear the cache.
The real Question why should you use static HTML file for your homepage? I would create some article or view for homepage and change it as I like with theming... It is much easier than any other alternative.