I am working on a drupal 7 site and am very new to this. I need to create a totally separate home page from the rest of the site. I notice the head is built in the html.tpl.php file where all the scripts are loaded. I would rather not load scripts to the rest of the site that will only be used on the front page. Also I have found that drupal adds some code to the end of my script rendering it useless.
/js/image_scale.js?lwhgie"
What is going on here and how do get better control of this?
Thanks
Just to add a couple of points:
If you want to aggregate your homepage JS (which you may or may not) then you shouldn't add the stylesheets manually to the template file. You can add them in hook_preprocess_page(), something like this:
/**
* Implements hook_preprocess_page().
*/
function MYMODULE_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
if ($vars['is_front']) {
$path = drupal_get_path('module', 'MYMODULE');
drupal_add_js($path . '/MYMODULE1.js');
drupal_add_js($path . '/MYMODULE2.js');
$vars['scripts'] = drupal_get_js();
}
}
Also I have found that drupal adds some code to the end of my script rendering it useless.
/js/image_scale.js?lwhgie"
That shouldn't render your script useless. From the comments in drupal_get_js():
A dummy query-string is added to filenames, to gain control over
browser-caching. The string changes on every update or full cache
flush, forcing browsers to load a new copy of the files, as the
URL changed. Files that should not be cached (see drupal_add_js())
get time() as query-string instead, to enforce reload on every
page request.
you could create a new template called page--front.tpl.php in your theme folder and this will be your template for the homepage. Now you can add/remove any html markup you want. for more info take a look here: http://drupal.org/node/1089656 . Also, you could "tell" drupal to use your custom template file using hook_preprocess_page() in template.php file in your theme folder. See the comments on the link I posted earlier
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Title says it really. Basic pages created in Drupal don’t seem to use the page.tpl.php file as a template.
If I edit the html.tpl.php file, those changes apply to every page, and it causes errors when I load a basic page.
I have also tried to copy the page.tpl.php file and name it page—basic-page.tpl.php to no avail.
Any idea what’s going on?
Also, how do I go about changing the page_top variable to include more content?
Lastly, the default page.tpl.php file has $page variables and things like $page_top and the like.
How would I call the title from the page only and the body text of a page only?
I’m using Drupal 7 and a custom sub theme.
The aforementioned files are in the template folder of the theme and I did clear caches when I added them.
Add $conf['theme_debug'] = TRUE; in settings.php and clear cache, reload page and check view source.
It will display the template file suggestions.
page.tpl.php file common for all pages. Just print anything to the tpl and run any node of basic page as well as other content type page and check if its working or not. If page.tpl.php not working for basic page only, then check your template.php file.
For print a page title just need to use following code:
<?php print $title; ?>
For print body text you need to use following:
<?php print render($page['content']); ?>
This may depend on the theme you are using. But I guess you are actually meaning page--page.tpl.php (double dashes). Which will be taken into account after you added the following snippet to your theme's template.php. Replace MYTHEME with your theme's machine name.
function MYTHEME_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__' . $variables['node']->type; // (double underscores)
}
}
See Template (theme hook) suggestions, where I also got above snippet from.
active theme debug for inspecting the template source and you get a different suggestions to user it (just avoid using node/nid).
commend drush to enable theme debug drush vset theme_debug 1
I'm just starting out with drupal and need some custom html for an intricate menu system. My plan is to override the html-generating functions in template.php.
My theme name is "Drupal subtheme" and the navbar I would like to target has the machine name "menu-usm-navbar-small". What should I name the functions that overrides the default html-printouts?
I think I have tried every possible combination of these. Some examples of what I've tried:
function drupal_subtheme_menu_link($variables) {
return "foo";
}
function drupal_subtheme__menu_usm_navbar_small($variables) {
return "foo";
}
If you want to place custom HTML inside, why do you need to do it trough Drupal's functions?
Let's say, that you want to insert your code into page.tpl.php (most likely) - just open that file, edit it, add your code there.
Since you are overriding some theme - copy that file from original theme, and then edit it (don't forget to clear the cache).
A WordPress theme I am developing has an integrated custom post type called "albums" which utilizes a few custom templates (archive-albums.php, content-albums.php, etc.). What I want to do is transfer this functionality, along with the template files, into a plugin for the sake of portability.
I transferred the CPT code from the functions.php with success, but when I try to move the template files from the theme folder to the plugin folder, things fall apart. I feel like it should be simple to somehow register the templates so WordPress knows to load them.
Can my WordPress custom templates be in plugin folder or only theme folder?
Things are falling apart because when you move those files, you're violating WP's native template hierarchy. You'll need to explicitly declare the location of those files. Using the archive as an example, you could add something like this to functions.php (to tell WP to look elsewhere):
add_filter('template_include', 'include_album_template', 1);
function include_album_template($template_path) {
if(get_post_type() == 'albums') {
if(!is_single()) {
$theme_file = 'path-to-your-plugin-directory';
$template_path = $theme_file;
}
}
return $template_path;
}
Obviously you'd use your own path, and I wrote this hastily so you might want to refactor.
I have the same issue. I'm already using add_filter ('template_include', ...) problem is that I need to specify a file to return, and in this case being it,index.php. This raises an issue with the theme not running entirely as if installed via themes folder, because what I need is to have WP selecting the appropriate file to render without any conditional logic from my part. So if it is a post it will select the single.php and so on. Another problem raised with this method is that in header.php the call get_header (); ignores the local file header.php and loads the default theme installed file instead.
I've just discovered that if you want to alter a specific page (or group of pages) all you need is to add templates file to the core templates. For instance, I need to theme my /helloword page using a page--helloworld.tpl.php and node--helloworld.tpl.php template files.
Now all I get is a blank screen so I tried to write a preprocess function that adds support for custom theme files like:
<?php
/**
* Adding or modifying variables before page render.
*/
function phptemplate_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
// Page change based on node->type
// Add a new page-TYPE template to the list of templates used
if (isset($vars['node'])) {
// Add template naming suggestion. It should alway use doublehyphens in Drupal7.
$vars['template_files'][] = 'page--'. str_replace('_', '-', $vars['node']->type);
}
}
?>
I see no syntax error but I still get a blank screen. Still no luck
Is someone able to figure out what's wrong in the code/routine?
Drupal7 + Omega Sub-Theme
Kind Regards
I think there's a tiny bit of confusion here: a template file named node--type.tpl.php will automatically be called for any node which has the type type...you don't need to add the template suggestions in yourself.
There is one caveat to this, you have to copy the original node.tpl.php to your theme folder and clear your caches otherwise Drupal won't pick it up.
Also you don't want to use the phptemplate_ prefix...rather you want your function to be called MYTHEMENAME_preprocess_page.
Your code to add the page template based on the node type looks spot on, see if you still have the problem after you change your function name and clear the caches.
Hope that helps :)
I'm fiddling with a WordPress theme. I'm aware I can use wp_enqueue_script in my header.php to load WordPress's supplied jQuery library.
I was just going to use wp_enqueue_script in my header, but it seems inefficient when I only want to use it on a particular Page (just on one single page with a particular page_id.)
Given that, what's the best way of including jQuery only on one particular Page?
Presumably I can't do page_id detection in header.php, because that won't be in The Loop, right? But I'm guessing I'm missing some fairly obvious method -- I'm fairly new to theme development...
Thanks!
Yes you can, is_page doesn't need to be called in The Loop, since it doesn't change when The Loop runs. So is_page(42) will only return TRUE if you're on the page with id 42. It also works with the page title or name (slug), which might be more future-proof if you ever replace delete this page and replace it with a new one with the same slug.
here is an article about dynamic body ids
http://perishablepress.com/press/2009/05/26/dynamic-body-class-id-php-wordpress/
after you get your page name you can add a conditional statement in your template index.php that says something like this in your page header or before the closing body tag:
// $page_name would be the page name you extracted with a function from the post
if($page_name === 'about'){
echo '<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>'
}