Can't manage blocks visibility when using Zen Classic theme

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Posted by ivan agliardi on July 1, 2008 at 12:57pm

Dear friends,

I'm building a new website using Drupal and the state-of-the-art Zen theme. You can take a preview here:

http://demo.evk2cnr.org/cms/

A question is annoying me and seems to be harder than I thought to be fixed: if I create a block and I decide that it must be shown only in the front page, I browse to Administration > Site building > Blocks and click "Configure" near the desired block. Than I enter into the "Page specific visibility settings" field and set "Show block on specific pages" to "Show on only the listed pages". This is actually what I always do, but noways to make it work with the Zen theme I installed... Actually it looks like Zen theme completely ignores the statement. Is there anybody having the same kind of problem and - most of all - telling me how to fix it?

Ciao :-)

Ivan Agliardi

http://www.ivan.agliardi.net

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Block visibility works for me

Posted by dragonwize on July 2, 2008 at 3:33pm
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I am not sure of what is causing your problem. But I am using Zen Classic on one of my sites and am using block visibility successfully. So I don't think that it is the Zen theme causing your problem. Disclaimer: You didn't say what version of Drupal and Zen you are running, my case applies to D6.

You're right... :-)

Posted by ivan agliardi on July 2, 2008 at 4:09pm
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Yes, I forgot giving you information about which version I am using:

  • drupal-5.7.tar.gz
  • zen-5.x-1.1.tar.gz

Any help will be appreciated ;-)

Ivan Agliardi

http://www.ivan.agliardi.net

fixed yet?

Posted by heather on July 15, 2008 at 8:23am
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is your issue fixed yet ivan?

i was wondering... do you have the right region for the block in your template? let's assume you're specifying the default page. if you've change anything in your templates with a custom region you need to make sure it is printing in whatever template you're using for your front page.

You did not mention how you specified the front page

Posted by Taxoman on January 19, 2009 at 5:27pm
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You probably got it to work long ago by now
This is possibly nice to know for others if this is an "issue" others may run into.
Could you share the solution?

The guidelines on the block config page suggest to enter

"<front>"

(without the quotes)
( [front] with < and > instead of [ and ], in case it does not show properly here ).

I have seen that that "tag" does not work in some themes, or "sometimes" (have not investigated why).

What did you use to identify the front page? That "front tag"?