custom node template ignored in sub themes [#405770]

Drupal 6.9, views 6.x-2.3

I created a sub theme of marinelli in a sibling directory... Then for my event content type I wanted to
create a custom node template, so I made a copy of the node.tpl.php in the marinelli dir as node-event.tpl.php
in my sub theme directory... After clearing my cache, the system was still using the default template to render
the Event nodes. Later I discovered that if I moved my custom node template to the marinelli directory, then
the custom template was picked up..

This is different from my custom views template, when I create custom templates in the views subdirectory
of my sub theme and rescan the template files, the correct template is picked up from my sub theme..

Comments

Comment #1

jdsaward commented 25 March 2009 at 08:31

I was experiencing the same difficulty with a sub-theme of Acquia Marina.

I found that once I duplicated the default node.tpl.php file from the Acquia Marina directory, into my sub-theme directory, then the node-type-specific file (in my case node-biblio.tpl.php) is picked up from the sub-theme.

That is, in the sub-theme directory you need a node.tpl.php file as well as node-event.tpl.php.

Comment #2

John Gentilin commented 25 March 2009 at 11:50

JDSaward , thank you for the tip... your solution worked for me too...

although to pull node.tpl.php into my sub theme takes a chunk out of the significance
of having a base theme.. might as well take a copy of my base theme and edit that..

-John G

Comment #3

niklp commented 21 April 2009 at 17:51

This is a limitation of the phptemplate engine system under Drupal 6. It may be fixed in Drupal 7, I'm not sure.

Comment #4

damienmckenna

TN, USA

commented 20 June 2009 at 20:05

While some of this can be simplified by using symlinks, it is a bug, makes subthemes definitely less useful, and needs to be fixed.

Comment #5

turadg commented 2 September 2009 at 23:20

Title:

custom node template not selected for sub themes.

» custom node template ignored in sub themes

I agree with Damien. Any chance this will be fixed in D7?

In the meantime, at least some mention of this in the docs would be helpful. I got here from some helpful comments, but this gotcha should be in the main text.

http://drupal.org/node/225125