how to add blocks to place in regions on my home page
I have a feeling there will be a very simple answer to this question, but I've searched and searched in the documentation and I just can't seem to hit on the right information to guide me. I'm setting up a new site in Drupal (5.2). I managed to get it installed and configured with very little problem, and I've created a new theme and added some content. What I need to do now is set up the home page for the site, which, instead of having one big area for content, will have that area divided into four sections, like this ----------------- | | | | ----------------- | | | | | | | --------- | | | | | | ----------------- each of which needs to be editable by the site owner. I've created regions by defining them in my template.php file, and added the regions to my theme so the are now appearing correctly on the home page. I believe what I need to do next is create some new blocks to place in those regions, and then the site owner can simply edit those blocks as needed. So my questions are: 1) Do I have the right idea with creating regions and placing editable blocks inside those regions? 2) How do I create a new block and ensure that it is editable by the site owner? I've seen mention a few times that I should to to "administer > blocks > add block" but I don't see this option in my site admin; the closest thing to it is "administer > site building > blocks", but this page does not include an "add block" function. I have a feeling that either I'm missing some crucial piece of information, or the documentation I've been reading is not for the version I'm using, or something in my site config is preventing me from seeing all the options/functions I should see in my site admin - or some combination of the above :) Hopefully some kind soul will be able to point me in the right direction! TIA, Sarah -- sarah adams web developer & programmer portfolio: http://sarah.designshift.com blog: http://hardedge.ca
2) How do I create a new block and ensure that it is editable by the site owner? I've seen mention a few times that I should to to "administer > blocks > add block" but I don't see this option in my site admin; the closest thing to it is "administer > site building > blocks", but this page does not include an "add block" function.
It really should have an add block function. There should be two options at the top - "List" and "Add block". What theme is your backend admin area using? If you are using a custom theme, it is possible that it isn't printing out $tabs as it should. William
Also consider using the Panels modules to create the front page, and any other page that may have a similar rendering to the below. Can be found at http://drupal.org/projects/panels. A very versatile module. -G ________________________________ From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of William Smith Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 10:47 AM To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] how to add blocks to place in regions on my home page 2) How do I create a new block and ensure that it is editable by the site owner? I've seen mention a few times that I should to to "administer > blocks > add block" but I don't see this option in my site admin; the closest thing to it is "administer > site building > blocks", but this page does not include an "add block" function. It really should have an add block function. There should be two options at the top - "List" and "Add block". What theme is your backend admin area using? If you are using a custom theme, it is possible that it isn't printing out $tabs as it should. William
2) How do I create a new block and ensure that it is editable by the site owner? I've seen mention a few times that I should to to "administer > blocks > add block" but I don't see this option in my site admin; the closest thing to it is "administer > site building > blocks", but this page does not include an "add block" function.
It really should have an add block function. There should be two options at the top - "List" and "Add block". What theme is your backend admin area using? If you are using a custom theme, it is possible that it isn't printing out $tabs as it should.
I think that is definitely the problem. I'm using the garland theme for the admin, but the blocks admin page shows up using the custom theme (as does the add content page). Unless there is a way to force these pages to also use the admin theme, I guess I'll have to add the $tabs to my custom theme... OK, so I edited my theme to output $tabs, and that helps a lot! Now I see the "Add block" tab :) Seems weird that it keeps jumping back and forth between using the admin theme and my custom theme - when I click "Add block" it switches back to the admin theme. -- sarah adams web developer & programmer portfolio: http://sarah.designshift.com blog: http://hardedge.ca
Yeah, I've noticed that on D5 as well .. there are a couple of admin pages (the blocks page included) that don't seem to use the specified admin theme. It's never been a big problem for me, so I haven't looked into it, but I imagine that there is some information regarding this on drupal.org if you were to poke around. Or maybe someone else on the list can explain why this is the case. Anyways, I'm glad that adding $tabs helped you out! William On 8/10/07, Sarah Adams <mr.sanders@geekjock.ca> wrote:
2) How do I create a new block and ensure that it is editable by the site owner? I've seen mention a few times that I should to to "administer > blocks > add block" but I don't see this option in my
site
admin; the closest thing to it is "administer > site building >
blocks",
but this page does not include an "add block" function.
It really should have an add block function. There should be two options at the top - "List" and "Add block". What theme is your backend admin area using? If you are using a custom theme, it is possible that it isn't printing out $tabs as it should.
I think that is definitely the problem. I'm using the garland theme for the admin, but the blocks admin page shows up using the custom theme (as does the add content page). Unless there is a way to force these pages to also use the admin theme, I guess I'll have to add the $tabs to my custom theme...
OK, so I edited my theme to output $tabs, and that helps a lot! Now I see the "Add block" tab :) Seems weird that it keeps jumping back and forth between using the admin theme and my custom theme - when I click "Add block" it switches back to the admin theme.
-- sarah adams web developer & programmer portfolio: http://sarah.designshift.com blog: http://hardedge.ca -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
I believe this is the case on the blocks page because you have to be rendering the selected theme to correctly display where the blocks would show up in the theme (ie. the yellow parts that have the block region name in them). They wouldn't render at all if still showing the garland theme. Greg ________________________________ From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of William Smith Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 11:02 AM To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] how to add blocks to place in regions on my home page Yeah, I've noticed that on D5 as well .. there are a couple of admin pages (the blocks page included) that don't seem to use the specified admin theme. It's never been a big problem for me, so I haven't looked into it, but I imagine that there is some information regarding this on drupal.org if you were to poke around. Or maybe someone else on the list can explain why this is the case. Anyways, I'm glad that adding $tabs helped you out! William On 8/10/07, Sarah Adams <mr.sanders@geekjock.ca> wrote:
2) How do I create a new block and ensure that it is editable by
the
site owner? I've seen mention a few times that I should to to "administer > blocks > add block" but I don't see this option in
my site
admin; the closest thing to it is "administer > site building >
blocks",
but this page does not include an "add block" function.
It really should have an add block function. There should be two options at the top - "List" and "Add block". What theme is your
backend
admin area using? If you are using a custom theme, it is possible that it isn't printing out $tabs as it should.
I think that is definitely the problem. I'm using the garland theme for the admin, but the blocks admin page shows up using the custom theme (as does the add content page). Unless there is a way to force these pages to also use the admin theme, I guess I'll have to add the $tabs to my custom theme... OK, so I edited my theme to output $tabs, and that helps a lot! Now I see the "Add block" tab :) Seems weird that it keeps jumping back and forth between using the admin theme and my custom theme - when I click "Add block" it switches back to the admin theme. -- sarah adams web developer & programmer portfolio: http://sarah.designshift.com blog: http://hardedge.ca -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
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