Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.Hi, just started trying to theme so please bear with me if this is a newbie question.
I followed the directions on the readme to create a subtheme and everthing works fine.
I created a primary link called home which shows up but near the left side bar i have the text "primary links" showing up in big bold font. How do I get rid of that so it doesn't show up.
I followed the directions the read under "optional" 8. MODIFYING ZEN CORE TEMPLATE FILES.
I copied the tpl files over to the subtheme but the base tpl files still show up. Is there another step that I'm missing since it just said to copy over if you want to modify it.
Thanks in advance.
Comments
Comment #1
deadlyromio commentedPrimary links got fixed when I tried a new install of zen. Not sure why that happened or how. Probably some mistake on my part with installing the theme.
Still trying to figure out how to use my own tpl pages though.
Comment #2
johnalbinAs long as your sub-theme is a sub-folder of the zen folder, you only need to copy the .tpl.php files from the zen folder to your sub-folder. It's really that simple.
Are you sure you are following all the instructions on how to create a sub-theme?
Comment #3
crbassett commentedI think the documentation on creating sub-themes fails to mention that one needs to change the STARTERKIT.info file. I ran into this same problem, since it was my first time creating sub-themes instead of just modifying the core zen files. I didn't think to change the .info file.
Comment #4
johnalbinCaleb, there are no .info files for Drupal 5 themes (like Zen 5.x-1.0). If you are having an issue with Zen 6.x-1.x-dev (which has a .info file), please open a separate issue. Thanks!
Comment #5
crbassett commentedOh, sorry about that!
Comment #6
johnalbinRoy, please re-open if you are still having this issue.