Issue described in the following link - http://drupal.org/node/1011878.
I would like to include more blocks for videos as well as RSS feeds. My other RSS feed site also uses this theme, but doesn't have as many feeds, but has unlimited feed potential. Any suggestions would be welcome. Web site, still in development stage with Panels, QuickTabs and blocks, but can't add more blocks. I looked at the database bid column in the blocks table which is now standard as an interger and no longer smallint - Drupal 6. I deleted some of my test themes to reduce block ids. But your theme will not even load the blocks admin page past a certain point, and I have to reload Garland and delete a block or RSS feed before your theme's block admin page will load?
Any suggestions would be appreciated as I like this theme, its simple and neat.
Regards,
Kevin

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ajross commented

I don't immediately know what would be causing that problem, although it sounds like a javascript issue from your original post. Could you try setting Zen as your default theme and see if the same thing happens? If it does, then it may be a Zen-related issue and you might try posting the problem in that queue or looking there for similar issues. If not, let me know and I'll see if I can figure out what is happening. Thanks!

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kevlever commented

G'day ajross,
I love this theme, and I have spent all day buggering around with the blocks. I renamed the block description in alphabetical order so all of the videos appear correctly in the blocks admin page. Took a while, but at least this works. However, if I go to the normal videos page, they are not ordered as in the blocks admin page?? Cleared the cache just in case? I dissabled all video blocks and then re-enabled them since I thought that it may be a timing issue rather than an alphanumeric naming issue. This didn't work either? Maybe I should delete them and then re-create them? Perhaps its a block id thing, but I cant modify that? The other thing, this theme's block weight somehow seems to be limited to +-128. I have so many RSS feeds, at one time today, the blocks admin page hung, and I could see the weight of each block, so I modified the block weight which you dont normally see, but this didn't work either. It's rather weird, the page hung and I could modify the weight above/below 128/-128. But it didn't save. Today has been rather frustrating but I love this theme. I am a DBA and familiar with PHP. I am new to Drupal. How can I help? I'll try the zen theme, so this is for your knowledge.
Regards,
Kevin

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kevlever commented

G'day again ajross,
I changed my theme to Zen and the blocks on my video page still appear in the wrong order. The blocks admin page in the Zen theme appear in the correct order as in your theme. While the blocks admin page loads, all of my video blocks have a weight of -128. This also happens in your theme. The really strange thing is, when my site hung today, I could alter the weight above/below 128/-128 but it wouldn't save. I just created a new video block which appeared in the Zen theme's block admin page but cannot see it in my videos page. Perhaps I made a mistake and I'll try again tomorrow. Confused, but want to sort this out. Will help in any way.
Regards
Kevin

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ajross commented

Hi again,

If you are also seeing issues with the base Zen theme, then you might also trying asking in that issue queue. As my theme is a sub-theme of Zen, it takes all the base Zen code and mostly just adds styling on top of it. So if this is actually a theme issue, it may be related to something in Zen. You said initially that the problem was that the blocks page was having trouble loading with this theme. However, with the new problems you are describing, such as the blocks being out of order on the video page, is it resolved if you switch back to Garland? That just doesn't sound like a theme-related problem to me, although I really don't know what would be causing this to happen, I'm afraid.

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kevlever commented
Title: Number of blocks seem to be limited in your theme? » Having trouble with a large number of RSS feeds and their associated blocks.
Project: CTI Flex » Zen
Component: Code » Miscellaneous

Please read the above as well as my initial post at http://drupal.org/node/1011878.
I just checked again, my new video block appears in my Zen block admins page, but does not appear in my videos page. Other than ordering blocks in the blocks admin page, I cant otherwise change the weight of blocks via Drupal admin. All of my video blocks have a weight of -128, so I renamed the description, to order them in the admin page, but not the actual videos page, but I cant otherwise modify the weight unless I start playing with the database. But that doesn't explain why my new block appears in my blocks admin page but not on the page itself?
Any thoughts would be appreciated as I am new to Drupal but love it.
Regards,
Kevin

Ps. As far as my other site, which doesnt have as many RSS feeds and hence blocks, is concerned, I can order my video blocks without any problems. My next thought is to delete the blocks associated with the RSS feeds - has anyone done this before? Will it remove my RSS content?

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kevlever commented
Project: Zen » Aggregator2
Version: 6.x-2.0 » master
Priority: Normal » Major

Drupal core Aggregator Module Version: Agregator 6.16

After much frustration, I used my database background to find that the following three tables are linked;
- blocks
- boxes
- blocks_roles

The aggregator tables aggregator_category and aggregator_feed have a 'block' field which don't appear to be an issue.
The table that is of most concern is 'blocks', the first table I looked at. Its default character set for 'bid' is 'int(11)' which should be more than enough. My max bid is of the order 3300 - each rss feed has its own block and I have three themes enabled. However, the default character set for 'weight' is 'tinyint'. So I changed the character set of 'weight' to 'int' and modified the weight using SQL. Everything seemed fine and I was happy. Last night I included a few more RSS feeds and feed categories. Now I cant access my blocks admin page regardless of the theme I use? Otherwise the site works perfectly? Any block or aggregator experts out there?

Regards,
Kevin

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kevlever commented

Started playing with this again and just noted that I can access the add block page 'admin/build/block/add' but I cannot access the block administration page 'admin/build/block' regardless of the theme that I use. I am using Drupal 6.16.

Please also refer to my first report on this - Issue described in the following link - http://drupal.org/node/1011878.

Regards,
Kevin

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kevlever commented
Project: Aggregator2 » Block Region
Component: Miscellaneous » Code
Issue tags: +blocks admin page

Are there 'blocks' admin experts out there? Please read my last two posts and my first post on this problem that I am having with the blocks admin page.

Regards,
Kevin

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dalad commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

This has nothing to do with block region. If you wish to display such an amount of RSS feeds, I'd suggest you use Views instead of blocks

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kevlever commented

I created many aggregator feed categories and created a view for each category. Each view has a default view with feed item title listings and a link to a page version of the same view which includes other content for each feed item such as the feed item content, the feed publisher and date. I have done this many times over and it works perfectly. The problem is, when you create a news feed using the Aggregator module, it creates a block automatically. Try it and see for yourself. I guess I should just try and delete these blocks and see if they affect my news feeds. Has anyone tried this? This seems the lazy way and I have been too scared to do this but since no-one seems to have encountered this before I might just try deleting blocks for the RSS feeds. I can add new blocks via Drupal's admin, but then I have to use C-Panel's database access to access the blocks and boxes tables to modify positioning, modify content of video blocks, etc., since I cant access the blocks listing page at all. I have already played with parameters in the Php.ini file, perhaps the answer is there, (ie. execution times, memory, etc.)?