[themes] How do i theme blog entries by content type?

[sebastian]

Hi Brendan,

1. If you are using pathauto, or url names that are more legible than 
node/47 etc. then you should also get better theme template suggestions. 
Make sure that you are linking to the page by its human-name, not its ID 
number.

Some possible other solutions:

2. User devel to find the $node->type variable, and populate that in one 
of your div tags id or class name at a high enough level, that you can 
then detect and then theme just that page (or group of pages by type), 
this would be done in your main page.tpl.php [and then you don't even 
need a separate tpl.php files...]

3. Use Views to make a blog view that you like, and then you can theme 
just that View [with however many 'pages' you make of that view as 
daughters]

4. Use Panels with Views, and then theme on the Panels level.

I'm sure there are others I am forgetting [there is always more than 4 
ways to skin a...]

brendan, fresh-off.com wrote:
> *Hello Themers!*
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> */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?
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> The Theme Developer list these as the candidate files:  
>  *page-node-#.tpl.php *<* **page-node.tpl.php *<* **page.tpl.php.  *
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> 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. 
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> 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?
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> /A second (less important) question: /
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> 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? 
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> Such as “page-contact.tpl.php” instead of “page-node-392.tpl.php”
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> Thanks!
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> *brendan, fresh-off.com*
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> Creative Direction & Consultation: Web | Print | Brand
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> http://fresh-off.com
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> hello at fresh-off.com <mailto:hello at fresh-off.com>
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