[themes] Overriding zone etc. templates for specific content types in D7 (Jeff Greenberg)

[Jeff Greenberg]

Thanks, Danny. Lots of great-to-know things here!

Jeff

On Mar 3, 2013, at 12:43 PM, Danny Englander <highrockmedia at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jeff, 
> 
> The custom node template should have two dashes after "node". So for example if your content type is called "Product Type" and the machine name is "product_type", then the node template would be "node--product_type.tpl.php". Note the double dash after node and then the underscore for the content type machine name. This is a change for Drupal 7 as in Drupal 6, it was "node-" with one dash. 
> 
> That being said, you can also change the entire layout contextually for Omega by using Delta + Context. This powerful combo gives you the ability to change your Omega sub-theme layout based on a context such as content type, path etc… So now with your Delta theme variation, you can move zones around or whatever you want. It's pretty powerful and amazing. 
> 
> I'd say the difference between using a custom node template and Delta + context is if you have specific fields that you want to theme that are unique to a content type, then use  a custom node template or even Display Suite for that matter. If you want to entirely change regions and zones for a content type, i.e., change the page layout, then perhaps use Delta + Context. 
> 
> A use case for Delta + Context then would be if you completely want to change the page layout for your home page. Omega 3.x does not use page.tpl.php or a variation thereof so in this case you would want to create a Delta template for <front> and then use a context for that. 
> 
> Reference:
> 
> http://drupal.org/project/delta
> http://drupal.org/project/context
> http://drupal.org/project/ds
> 
> I think there are some tutorials for this out there as well for Delta + Context. 
> 
> -- Danny
> 
> 
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