Implement left sidebar support

Did you put the navigation block on the right side? (see under admin/block)

I have the same problem with drupal 4.7.4 and barlow theme. Unfortunately even overwriting block.tpl.php with the one from bluemarine theme didn't bring a solution. Can anybody help?

Try to type yoursite/admin/block (or yoursite/?q=admin/block) into the url and enable the sidebar ...

Egon, that does not correct the issue. Using a fresh install of 4.7.4 and setting all the blocks to be right aligned, the theme does not display any blocks - only content. Switching to another theme will display the blocks on the right of the page, as expected.

Nick

Honestly I have no idea of why that happens .... please write down all the steps you do to enable the theme and blocks, in detail, so I can have an idea of what happens and try to reproduce the issue

Note: The 4.7 version of the theme (current default download on the theme's page) has the issues as previously described. The HEAD version shows a right column but no blocks are displayed, just whitespace.

0. Have Drupal 4.7.4 installed.
1. Download HEAD release of the theme (or 4.7 if you wish to see it lacking the whitespace for a right sidebar).
2. Upload barlow directory to the Drupal themes directory.
3. Go to site/admin/themes and select Barlow as the default theme.
4. You will now see the whitespace (4.7 release: or not) for the right sidebar, but no blocks in it.
5. Go to site/admin/block and switch the blocks from left to right, if they are not already right. Note that "right sidebar" does show up in yellow when on the blocks page, so that's something.

Those are all of the steps I did (both times) to get to the end result of no sidebar/blocks. I really like this theme but if there are no blocks, then it isn't possible to use it :(

Since it's based on FriendsElectric, I suggest checking their issue tracker and see if any of the fixes cross-apply. This theme does not play nice with IE7, as FriendsElectric didn't either, but someone managed to patch it up to work with many browsers just fine.

Thanks for the time,
Nick

The 4.7 version is the one you should be using, that behavior is intended to let the main column use all the space available if no blocks are displayed on the right sidebar. I use to disable blocks on the node form page to have a bigger, comfortable textarea to type into ... the HEAD version will be soon Drupal 5 only

That said, if you can see the yellow placeholder on the block settings page, then the theme is working correctly, the problem must be somewhere else.

Ensure that the "Enable" checkbox is checked, and that you actually hit the "Save blocks" button (maybe you missed that because you were in a hurry or something ...)

Check that the blocks you need aren't set to be hidden in the page you are testing (See the visibility settings fieldset in the page you reach when you follow the "configure" link)

Try a clean Drupal install to see if the issue is related on some settings you forgot about ...

PS. Barlow is not based on FriendsElectric, i made it from scratch

I only saw the yellow label when using HEAD, not the 4.7 version. Also, I am using a clean 4.7.4 install.

I was reading the info on another theme right before I posted my reply; I was confused when I said this was based on FriendsElectric - my apologies.

Nick

My brand new install of 4.7.4 on a test site also does not display any blocks (despite being set to display 2 blocks on the right hand bar).

There is only content being displayed.

Despite other themes being able to see the 2 default blocks without any setup, Barlow didn't show any blocks until I typed in the /admin/block URL, and hit SAVE BLOCKS (no settings were changed, I simply had to hit the SAVE BLOCKS button...)

Hope that helps someone

This is actually a Drupal issue related to block handling ... the only clean way to fix it in the theme is to support the left sidebar. I'll do it as soon as possible and then make an official release

Good news, I made a new release with new features http://drupal.org/node/99669