Custom page template for content type... [#1430738]

First off, I'd like to apologize for putting up such a common ticket, especially when I know that 99% of the time its at the fault of the user. I got a custom node template file to work, but for some reason its ignoring my custom page template. I do have a copy of the original "page.tpl.php" in the same directory as the custom template file. I've also recognized that in D7 I need to use two hyphens "--" instead of one. Still no dice.

The machine name of the content type is "news_update" so the name of the template file I have is "page--news_update.tpl.php".

I've also flushed the theme catch every time I reload the page to see if its working. But haven't seen anything yet. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Comments

Comment #1

echoz commented 7 February 2012 at 07:59

Status:

Active

» Fixed

In D7 you no longer need to have a copy of the original tpl file in your theme folder along with your custom one. Your file name is the issue, the double worded content type should be using a single hyphen rather than the underscore, page--news-update.tpl.php.

Reference:
Core templates and suggestions
Drupal 7 Template Suggestions

Comment #2

digitalclover commented 7 February 2012 at 22:19

Status:

Fixed

» Active

My apologies once again, but its still not showing up. I renamed the document as "page--news-update.tpl.php" but its still not loading under that content type. I've even tried. I flushed the theme cache, as well as the browser cache before reloading the page.

Comment #3

echoz commented 8 February 2012 at 02:31

To clarify, if you want to effect just how the content type’s node is rendered, you can use node.tpl.php which does have node--type.tpl.php as a default template suggestion. Correction from what I wrote previously, for page.tpl.php the default suggestions do not include content type, but use path. Drupal 7 Template Suggestions explains this. That page links to Working with template suggestions which shows how to make custom suggestions.

I avoid having additional page templates because edits to page.tpl.php would then require editing all. Depending on what you want to do, I prefer to use body classes to feed different css to pages.