Ho do you assign Drigg to a menu not homeppage

Posted May 20th, 2008 by tjb2008

Hi,

We really want to use this module, but not as the home page for the site. Can you point me to an alternative to Step 3a: Turn Drigg into your site's home page, whereby we have a menu item called say 'Scoops' and clicking that menu would take you to a Drigg page using your Drigg theme? Not sure how to assign the Drigg theme to the menu item.

Thanks TJ

‹ Looking for Experienced Help feed folder missing ›

Drupal...

On May 21st, 2008 admin said:

Hi,

Drigg doesn't have to be your home page at all.
You can just skipp that step. After that, Drigg will be in drigg_home.

For the menu, you just need to create a menu item. It's a simple (VERY simple) Drupal question, and I can't support Drupal -- sorry :-D

Merc.

Problem not explained sorry

On May 21st, 2008 tjb2008 said:

My fault for not explaining my issue better, but this where Drupal often gets confusing as some things are obvious and others quite complex...

I wanted to use a Drigg type of template for the Scoops section as I think Drigg needs a template themed for Drigg. Just pointing a menu to drigg_home works fine if you are using a Drigg template, but if you use another template it doesn't so I think you would need to change the template files to accommodate Drigg functionality? I haven't started on Drupal template themeing yet so I don't know what is involved here or what part of the Drigg themes needs to be added to the template files...
As we want a completely different look for the site sections anyway we are using several templates.To make the Drigg section work I used taxonomy_theme module to select the Drigg theme for Scoop content types and to add paths to Scoop type content and categories using taxonomy set to vocab-based. I used the pathauto module to set the initial path and generate paths for all scoop content.

If the above is over complicated and there is a simpler way to do this then would be good to be pointed to it.

Thanks...

Drupal theming...

On May 23rd, 2008 admin said:

Hi,

Yes, Drigg does need some specific things to be in a Drupal template to show specific things. The best thing to do is to see the stock theme that comes with Drigg, see which functions are called, and make sure that you do the same in your theme. Or, you could just create your new theme modifying (heavily) Drigg's stock theme.

My help can't go further than that... I can't help people with theming. Sorry.

Good luck!

merc.