how to stick block at the top of the front page?

By topwaya on 27 Jun 2008 at 13:41 UTC

I have a block that I would like to appear on the front page, always at the top, that tells users what to do when they first get there (register, creat profile, etc.). I have the block in the top of the content region and only displaying on the front page - but the dynamic information (blogs, etc.) is posted above the block, how do I get the block at the top of the front page?
Thanks :)

Comments

Create a new region and set

kevinquillen commented 27 June 2008 at 13:43

Create a new region and set it in the template.php of the theme, then assign the block to that region and only that block. Nothing else will appear first.

You can also adjust the weights.

Either will work.

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weight block

topwaya commented 27 June 2008 at 23:33

Thank you - what's really weird is that when I got to Adminster > Blocks and it lists my blocks, I noticed that (just once) I saw all the "weight" boxes next to the region boxes. The weight boxes were only there for a flash and then they went away. I just see the region select box, and the the throttle check box and operations link, Am I crazy? Is there any where else to weight a block?
Thanks much - I am such a newbie!

regions or weight?

topwaya commented 29 June 2008 at 07:31

After reading more, I am using drupal 6.2 - so I've read that the template.php is no longer used for defining new regions, instead I could use .info files. However, I'd rather just simply use "weight" but I can't seem to find this.... where am I not looking? Thanks very much for any help!

turn off javascript to see weight in 6.x blocks

topwaya commented 29 June 2008 at 07:42

OK, I read in another post that in order to see the "weight" in blocks in 6.x I needed to disable javascript. But the weight is correct. In the content area, I have the TOP MESSAGE weighted to display first in the content region, and it does display before all the other blocks in the content region.... but the stuff that has been promoted to the front page appears above this TOP MESSAGE, I would like the TOP MESSAGE to display first, no matter what. Any way to do this without messing with the templates? Or if so, are there instructions posted anywhere? I don't really understand the ".info" stuff I read. Thanks for any help!!

Zen Theme

doona commented 28 July 2008 at 20:18

I was trying to figure this out and accidentally found that the Zen theme and has a content top and a content bottom. So you just place the block for the home page in the content top and it works...