By OnthegOinOz on

Hi,

I have been trying for hours to add a fifth colum to the Bartik theme without any joy! I've been through every file I can find to add fifthcolumn etc and I've managed to get it available in the Blocks section but when I add something to it nothing appears.

What i've done is copy the whole Bartik theme and creat another called 'bartikcustom' under my sites/all/themes folder and made all the changes in there.

I've changed the template, bartik.info, page.tpl.php, layout.php, and layout.rtl.php

Still nothing... I don;t know where else to go from here?

Any help appreciated
Thanks

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vm commented

to add a new region (Which is what I assume you are referring to with the verbiage "5th column") you must alter the theme files including the .info file of the theme. Using a google search for drupal regions should aid.

Note: rather than hacking a core theme you should be creating a sub theme and altering it there. Usings a google search for Drupal subthemes should aid.

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OnthegOinOz commented

Thanks for the tip VM... i'll look into it. I thought however that I did kind of create a sub theme by making a copy of it, putting the copy in the sites/all/theme folder and editing that? but hey, i'm still learning : )

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vm commented

your thoughts are correct provided you also altered the naming scheme. ie: It can't continue to be named Bartik.

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OnthegOinOz commented

yep, I did that... called it bartikcustom... still can't get it to appear on the page. It comes up as available in the blocks page and can add block to it but it does not appear on the website?

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vm commented

which block is being used and on what pages are you looking for it?

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OnthegOinOz commented

I have called it 'fifth column' and tried to put the login block in there know that it works and also the 'powered by Drupal'. I have also enabled it for every page and looking for it on every page??

I'm pretty sure I went through every file in the template and folder and added it wherever it mentioned the columns...

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vm commented

it should have only been necessary to add it to the page.tpl.php file of the theme, depending on exactly what you are are doing. (I can't see your HTML)

Login blocks do not show to already logged in users.

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OnthegOinOz commented

thanks for the tips... I got this working well and have since been able to do it in other templates as well. Not too difficult once you get the hang of it! :)

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vm commented

You're welcome. ^5