After weeks of not being able to post to g.d.o due to mollom PMS, I need to link to an issue I have that I initially thought was due to DDBlock and panels conflicts.
Please see:
https://drupal.org/node/938158
Basically (for those who do not want to click through), I have a panel page with path of /home that I have set (or tried to) as the site homepage. I have a DDBlock in that panel and other content.
Thing is, when I set the panel page as homepage, all content vanishes. The content does not show either at frontpage or at /home path set for the panel.
Unsetting the 'homepage' for the panel results in the content appearing at the path.
Please see:
http://citizenranger.com/home
I generally believe as I noted a while back that OP has problems with Panel pages being set as frontpage.
Can any of you guys figure out whats up or duplicate the issue?
I would love to test the panel with another theme but of course then the OP install goes gaga!
Comments
It could be the default page-front.tpl.php
I had a similar problem and it was caused becasue in openpublish there is by default page-front.tpl.php enable. You could try to change to page instead.
@leob, Change what to
@leob,
Change what to page?
Do you mean that openpublish will not allow a change of frontpage path and will always pull in page-front.tpl.php?
If so, is the code that causes this in page.tpl.php? That way I could just kill it in my subtheme right?
I could create the regions I need in my sub-theme and use context (which is acting totally weird anyway) to place as I want but in this case I do want to use panels for certain site-relevant reasons.
Sub-theme regions is the way to go BUT I want to be able to use panels at front page too.
Iraklii?
http://satyamediagroup.com
I changed and panels worked as a fornt page
Yes it is allowed becasue I did the change to page.tpl.php and panels showed up in the front page.
Anyway make sure that you have a backup just in case doesn't work for you. I agree with you that panels in the front page
is the way to go and make you work easier and faster.
Maybe somebody else has another suggestion why panles are not showing up in the front page.
Thanks a bunch leob
That actually worked!
I renamed page-front.tpl.php to something else, cleared theme cache, reset my panel to be frontpage 'et voila'.
Of course something was bound to go wrong in the process and it did. The panel was squeezed to the right of the page instead of occupying the whole page.
I first of all thought that the right and over-content OP regions must be actived by some context or other.
It actually turns out that OP has an op-content div (usually the content region) that has been given a width of 250px in the themes layout.css. The panel gets shoved into this region and width.
I simply overrode layout.css in my sub-theme and:
http://citizenranger.com
Now I can go finish the site. Again thanks.
Your solution, and the layout.css issue makes me think there may be a way to make panels work without trashing page-front.tpl.php
http://satyamediagroup.com
I am sure there is a way
I am really happy that this solution worked out for you I know how frustated sometimes the learning curve it is.
Maybe somebody could tell you how that approach you told me could be achieved becasue I really don't know.
LB
http://groups.drupal.org/node
http://groups.drupal.org/node/82584#comment-442454