Hello Themers!
How do I theme a page based on content type? I've got a site with a few different custom pages and separate .tpl.php files for their custom layouts and CSS/XHTML. The "Blog" page is a View with a list of teasers. How do I create a custom .tpl.php file that only targets the "page" (and layout) that the individual/full blog entries are displayed on?
The Theme Developer list these as the candidate files: page-node-#.tpl.php < page-node.tpl.php < page.tpl.php.
But I don't want to use "page.tpl.php" as its too broad in its reach and I may decide to add other pages non-blog pages in the future.
I've tried "page-blog.tpl.php" - but it broke my layout. I still have some unresolved CSS/XHTML issues, so I'm wondering if "page-blog.tpl.php" is the correct naming convention, but I just have a few bugs in my code to work out?
A second (less important) question:
Keeping track of all those .tpl.php files is getting confusing! The Views pages are easy ("page-blog.tpl.php" or "page-work.tpl.php" for example), but Theme Developer is telling me that for all pages using the "page" content type, that I have to style them by their ID ("page-node-1.tpl.php" for the "about" page). Is there any way to name a .tpl.php file for a page content type in a more semantic/meaningful way?
Such as "page-contact.tpl.php" instead of "page-node-392.tpl.php"
Thanks!
brendan, fresh-off.com
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