Timeline for Help me understand themes with sidebars and how to populate the sidebar from drupal
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| Feb 27, 2013 at 23:26 | comment | added | mpdonadio♦ | Please take this to chat instead of using the comments for discussion. | |
| Feb 27, 2013 at 22:30 | comment | added | Volker | Editors don't need know HTML (almost) to maintain content on a Drupal site. Content-types can have different types of fields to minimize this. It would be no problem at all to have a another body-field in your content type. In your template-files or just with css you would organize them side by side. But there are a lot of ways to achieve this with other methods as well. Really, make a test-installation and play around, use stackexchange to answer your questions and after a little while you'll probably feel the power of drupal... | |
| Feb 27, 2013 at 21:36 | comment | added | RDotLee | Sidebar is probably the wrong term to use here. It is probably confusing the discussion. Think of a page with two columns where one column is large and the other is smaller. If that has to be all maintained in the body field, that is fine, it just means editors have to know more html then i was hoping for with drupal. | |
| Feb 27, 2013 at 21:32 | comment | added | RDotLee | One of the things I want to do though is minimize the amount of html someone entering has to know. By making the 'sidebar' part of the page content (I assume you mean the body field) then the user has to know how to style the sidebar. What classes to add to the content to break it out. I was wanting to minimize the html someone is going to have to enter, which is why I was going to create a new field type and add it to the content types article and base page. I'm coming from other CMS tools and this is what we did. | |
| Feb 27, 2013 at 21:20 | vote | accept | RDotLee | ||
| Feb 27, 2013 at 21:14 | comment | added | Triskelion | If your 'sidebar' is a part of your page content, then that is where you would maintain it. Just make sure your input format is set to Full HTML so you do not filter out your formatting. Drupal sidebars are independent of the page content, like menus. I suggest you review the Theming Guide and other documentation on drupal.org. | |
| Feb 27, 2013 at 21:05 | comment | added | RDotLee | Thanks for your input. I can create a new field on content types though. Creating a 'sidebar' field was something I was proposing, not re-using an existing 'sidebar' field that doesn't exist. If the sidebar is a region where can a person enter data for that region? By using blocks? Where does the data for a block come from? If i'm editing a page on my site and I have to enter the content in one section and then the sidebar that exists on that same page (and only that page) in a different section that feels like a pain. | |
| Feb 27, 2013 at 20:54 | history | answered | Triskelion | CC BY-SA 3.0 |