I want to theme pages for a specific content type (story) by giving it it's own unique page-story-tpl.php file. The end goal is to have all story pages have a slightly different theme from other pages.

I read the documentation and duplicated the page.tpl.php file and renamed it page-story.tpl.php. and made the necessary changes. However, the Drupal ignores the theme suggestion and continues to call page.tpl.php.

Do you have any suggestions as to what I may be doing wrong?

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cmckay’s picture

cmckay commented
Status: Active » Fixed

I finally found a solution that works - http://drupal.org/node/296111

(Not sure if this is the best way of doing this however)

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented
Title: Template suggestion for page-[node-type] » Template suggestion for pages

Its better to this in preprocess function such as:

http://drupal.org/node/223440#comment-1101275

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented
Title: Template suggestion for pages » Template suggestion for page-[node-type]
Status: Fixed » Active
cmckay’s picture

cmckay commented
Title: Template suggestion for pages » Template suggestion for page-[node-type]

Didn't quite get you...are you saying that the method you linked to is better?

I tried adding it to the template file. Duplicated the page.tpl.php file and renamed it page-node.tpl.php.

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

it should be more effecient, but page-node.tpl.php is a default template suggestion and will take over all node views, you would want to make a page-[content-type] template, and then clear the registry so drupal sees the new template, make sure all these templates are in the same directory as page.tpl.php or they won't work.

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cmckay commented

hmm...I can definitely see where it is more efficient. However, for some reason, your method doesn't work for me.