By yktdan on

When admin is trying to add or change blocks, the list of blocks can get quite long. We have almost 90 and it is growing. We use panels and each panel typically has 6-8 blocks. We use these as navigation aids on a large site. There are typically 3 levels of fanout before you get to real content pages. None of these are placed in regions so it is a list with only alphabetic order to help organize.

How to others handle this?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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jdevries commented

I typically use a prefix on the names of my blocks, like:

  • fp_site_summary
  • usr_latest
  • frm_active_topics

Where fp stands for blocks on the frontpage, usr for blocks that are user related, frm for forum related blocks, and so on. It's not ideal, but in my opinion Drupal lacks the possibility to easily manage a large number of content (same for content). This is the best alternative I've found, as related blocks are alphabetically grouped together by prefix.

The above works for me, but if you have blocks that fit in more places than just the frontpage or forum, prefixing them may be harder.