[support] Making drupal use custom template for cck node

Trevor Twining trevortwining at gmail.com
Thu Feb 18 17:28:18 UTC 2010


As long as [node.podcast.tpl.php] isn't a typo, then change it to node-podcast.tpl.php and rebuild the theme registry. It won't be found if you use the period instead of the hyphen.

Trevor Twining,
Points of Light Institute
http://pointsoflight.org

On 2010-02-18, at 12:11 PM, Matt Friedman wrote:

> I'm sure there's a simple answer for this but it just isn't working
> for me. I've seen lots of posts that say you can just create your own
> node-[typename].tpl.php file alongside node.tpl.php and the system
> should pick up your custom node theme instead of the default one. I've
> done this, and it just won't pick up the custom one for me.
> 
> I have Themer info display module installed. I'm using the garland
> theme. In the garland theme directory I have copied node.tpl.php to
> node.podcast.tpl.php. When I view the page the Themer display tells me
> that it finds node.podcast.tpl.php as a 'candidate' file, but it
> continues to use node.tpl.php as the template.
> 
> I've tried rebuilding the template registry and devel/rebuild cache.
> Doesn't seem to help.
> 
> How do I get drupal to use my custom template? The podcast type is a cck type.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
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