I come from a Wordpress background and i'm trying to wrap my head around content-types and templates.
My issue is that if I have 2 pages which are slightly different in layout, let's call one 'Wide' and one 'Narrow' then I need a content type for both. But if I change my mind and want 'Narrow' to be 'Wide' as well then I need to delete the page and re-add it as the other content type.. which seems very long winded.
In wordpress you build you templates and then assign each page to a template, and if you don't then it defaults to the default template (which in drupal would just be page.tpl.php) I'm just wondering whether there is anything similar in Drupal?
Thanks for any help
Dan
You can do this using a module called Display Suite https://drupal.org/project/ds
If used in conjunction with other modules such as Context or Panels you can create multiple templates and then assign them by Node type, URL etc
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I have a Home page on the Drupal website (such as is created after installation), but I still need to create this page:
What is the best way to create a page so that I can then add these posts with images?
I am just starting to learn Drupal and have heard so far about such ways of creating pages:
1) in admin toolbar: Content / Add Content / Article
2) in admin toolbar: Content / Add Content / Basic page
3) in admin toolbar: Structure / Views / Add Views
Which one should I use? Or maybe there is some other option that I don’t know about?
P.S. At the moment I am more interested how to create empty page on which I can then add posts later, and adding posts it is another question.
Welcome to Drupal.
Drupal ships with the default theme which won't look nice but it does its job in the right way. Now if you want to create a better UI/UX obviously you should create a new theme. But before that make sure to read and understand the concepts behind Drupal. Drupal docs are your first friend.
Drupal Documentation
Drupal considers everything as nodes and that's how Drupal got its power. As you mentioned, Articles, Basic Page etc are called content types and they can be used to create a particular type of content.
Now for your purpose create a new content type and add the fields you need. From the image above I can say your content type needs Title, Image, Category and Date. After creating content type you can create as many contents as you want under the content type you just created. Consider each card in your image as content.
Now you can use a Drupal Core Module Views, to perform DataBase Operations without writing single code. Yes, you can select fields, sort, order etc with Views UI and display it in a page or a part of a page (Block).
I would say just try this out in the default Drupal theme and when you understand how this works, you can start creating your own theme for your project.
Theming Drupal
There is a lot of resources available. But you have to make sure what you are asking is whether you actually need. It will take some time, but it worth.
To build layouts for homepages on Drupal 8 you best friend is https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/core/modules/layout-builder
To build the content blocks inside your home page, you should start creating nodes on a node content type to hold your information. For instance: news content type, with a title, a body, a date, and an image.
For every node type, ex. news, work on the preview display, full display, and any other display which makes sense. These displays can be used later in the Layout Builder directly or in Views, referenced below.
If you wish your list to be dynamic, such as the last 10 entries are shown first, then use a view to hold the content sorted and filtered as you need.
In a nutshell.
Create a content type for your article/news.
Modify the displays of the content types to have at least a summary and full view.
Create the content itself to have something to see.
Create the view (block) to filter and sort your content.
Create a page layout (this makes sense for landing pages) which places your new view and any other content you need in any disposition.
This is roughly what I would do. The steps described above contain many intermediate steps. If in doubt, check the docs.
I hope that helps!
First, decide what will you display on that page. Is it content in some existing content type (article maybe) or you want to crate new one for this purpose.
If you need new one then create it (Structure -> Content types -> Add content type).
Then check what fields will you need. I.e. image, some description text. Add missing ones.
Create few nodes (pages) in that type so you could work with them.
Then for displaying you should crate a view (Structure -> Views -> Add view). It can be a page view (you are displaying only that content on page) or block view (this is just a block among some others). If you create a page you could visit it and if you create a block you have to add it to some region to appear on page (Structure -> Block Layout).
Inside your theme you should create templates for this page/block. Turn on twig debug mode so it will show you hints - what templates are used and how can you name yours to override default ones.
Adjust CSS to make it look like you want it to look.
Find some tutorial(s) for the details
Previous answers have given the flow of the work you should go through, I would like to add some resource that might help you achieve this.
Creating content type and fields: https://www.drupal.org/docs/administering-a-drupal-site/managing-content-0/working-with-content-types-and-fields
https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/structure-content-type.html
View and View modes: https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/views-concept.html
https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/api/entity-api/display-modes-view-modes-and-form-modes
Handling block of the view: https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/core/modules/block/overview
Feel free to ask if any further explanation is needed.
Thank you
I'm new to Drupal and Drupal 8 and I want to add areas(blocks?) that I can easily add to a page that pulls in and has access to selected view data and fields. What's the easiest way to get this done? It seems like it should be something that's easy to do but Drupal seems to make this really hard to achieve.
I've tried making custom blocks and types via the CMS but then it'd mean editing the content in 2 different places when we need to update areas or add new areas.
I've also tried building a block via a module but I cant seem to pass the information from a view into my template that way.
The blocks will potentially need to be added to more than one page if that' possible too.
What am I missing, why is this so difficult?
Thanks
Although the question is not so specific I would recommend to start from here Understanding Drupal > Overview > The Drupal flow and then move to Drupal Glossary (it is almost the same for 8.x).
This way it will be more easy to understand Drupal parts such as Theme, Region, Block, Template (using Twig for 8.x) etc.
Use the views module to create the block, then use the block layout page admin/structure/block to place the block in an appropriate region. Edit the block and configure the block and set its visibility settings.
I am to develop a Joomla 3.1 Template. The template should consist of a static header and footer, as well as multiple pages, all of which need their own styling. Further, the client would like to be able to add 'events' to a specific listings page. Customers should be able to book said events via a simple form.
Thanks to some really basic guides, I have the header and footer down, as well as some simple template options. However, I am now running into some problems;
How would I approach the content section? Ideally, a page would consist of multiple, editable sections. The client would be able to edit said sections in the backend without having to deal with or accidentally changing the layout or styling of the page itself. Since there are multiple pages, I obviously need different views/containers for each of them. Is this possible and if so, how?
Another problem is the documentation, which I found to be very lacking. Even google only got me so far (basic structure, index.php, templateDetails.xml and so forth). Are there any other resources I may have missed or do I really need to refer to other templates (most of which, obviously, aren't free) and use var_dump all the time?
Writing this, I just realized that I could theoretically build a template for every single page but ... that surely can't be right, right?
If someone could provide a basic outline or at least tell me how you personally would tackle a project like this, it'd be very much appreciated.
All the best
Edit;
I just found some video tutorials but since my bandwidth is limited, I cannot watch them. Please take this into account when writing an answer. Thanks.
I have only one word for you :
GANTRY :D
gantry-framework.org
Joomla revolves around menu items that point to components. For each menu item, you can assign modules to different positions within the template to create a unique page. You only need one template if you really understand how Joomla templating works.
Joomla has very good documentation here - http://docs.joomla.org/
Few things to remember -
Component - this is a type of content or app of sorts. A component will define what content is and how it is displayed. This can be anything from blog articles and categories to an event registration system to a message board or social network. Menu items generally will point to a view in a component.
Modules - these are used to display additional content around the component output. This can be a menu, or a login box, or a weather widget or anything else you can come up with. Modules can be assigned to or excluded from the various menu items on your site.
Plugin - plugins are used to change the final output on a site. They can be used to insert Youtube videos, or forms within content, or even to alter the meta tags on a page.
Understanding how extensions work is an important first step. Once you get how those work, learning how templates and template overrides work will give you most of what you need to know to build a basic Joomla site.
Let me first explain what I am trying to do.
In joomla 3.0 I have created a Menu_Item_Text_Separator override for my template http://docs.joomla.org/Help30:Menus_Menu_Item_Text_Separator. It seems as though joomla will only recognize one default Text separator per template which is ok if you just want the one. but I ideally would like to have the choice of selecting the custom one in my template folder as well as the default one that joomla recognizes. To inform you this is what I have done to make it happen.
in my template I have a folder named html which had a folder called mod_menu inside it.
In the mod_menu folder I have the .php files called:
default_separator.php
custom_separator.php
I then go into menu manager and edit the menu item for which I want to display a text separator for.
I then go to 'template style' http://docs.joomla.org/Help30:Menus_Menu_Item_Text_Separator and look for my custom style. but I only can choose the default one.
So i wonder if this is way that joomla works that you can only have one default per template. but is it possible to have more than one?
any advice most welcome.
regards
w9914420
Sorry this got too long for a comment.
Okay let's start from the beginning. Templates have a set of parameters defined in the templateDetails.xml file. A template style is simple a record containing the information about a template and the array of parameter options you have selected. You can make as many template styles as you want for a given template Each one has its own name. In the menu you can select any of the styles and assign it to a menu item. ....
What you are talking about has nothing to do with template styles. You are talking about using a layout override for mod_menu. Because you are using a file with the same name as a core layout file you should get a 1:1 replacement.
From what I understand of what you want to do, you should instead make a new named replacemen both for default_separator and for default.php. THat's because the alternative layout field is going to look for a replacement for default.php say yourname.php and then in that replacement when you load a template called separator it is automatically going to look for yourname_separator rather than default_separator because it assumes you are appending the _separator to the base name. If you do this it has some advantages such as you will be able to make a more complex layout and it will allow you to load different sub layouts conditionally for example.
I think your are confusing template styles with the style for menu module. Unless you have a parameter in your template that specifies the choice of a mod_menu layout a template style is not going to help you.Go to he module manager and pick the module you want to apply the style to. Use the field to select the layout you want. Or if it is a css style use the style option. It could also be that what you really want is to apply module chrome. THat do can be done by editing the module. If you want to have the same menu with different layouts or styles you'll probably want to make additional modules for that menu.
I had a rethink of what i was trying to do. What I was trying todo could not be achieved through the method I hoped - creating a template for that one text separator would not be practical although I have now discovered how to feed template parameter values into layout overrides.
Thank you Elin for your time
regards w9914420
Greetings all,
I just wanted to know what is the proper way to do template's in Joomla?
If i have four boxes in footer (4 columns) how can i automate them in the template so their content inside can be managed from the back-end?
So far, i have seen custom html block modules and using those. But wouldn't it be funny if there are loads of such blocks and than managing them from modules individually?
Now suppose if i have a slogan/tag line for my website; and i want it to be managed from backend.. Do i need to create that custom block even for such single line?
May be i am going to wrong direction. Can someone guide me please?
Regards,
Jhon.
A Joomla template is simply a map the outlines the various positions that available to put modules in. These positions are built around the component display area. You can load basically anything you want in to a module position. You will probably need to download some modules from the Joomla Extension Directory, there are tons of options.
The Custom HTML module is appropriate for simple content that is not going to change very often. This would be good for a company tag line that doesn't ever change. There are various modules that would allow you to load content from the latest Joomla articles based on section or category. There are modules for login forms, stock prices, RSS feeds, weather, all kinds of stuff.