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So I created a custom menu through the Drupal administration and named it "More Menu." Its machine name, menu-more-menu, was auto-generated by Drupal.

Creating this menu automatically created its corresponding block, and its now available under Blocks administration as More Menu. I then enabled the block and placed it under my desired Region.

I wanted to theme the output of this block. I tried creating a template by following the template suggestion as described here, block--module--delta.tpl.php.

The template file I created was named block--menu--menu-more-menu.tpl.php.

It doesn't seem to work, and I still cannot override it.

Am I missing something?

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For custom menu blocks the format for the block template file name is 

block--menu--<menu_machine_name>.tpl.php

Note: All machine names begin with the 'menu_' prefix and all hyphens are converted to underscores.

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Just for the heck of it, can you try assigning the actual ID of the block in place of 'menu-more-menu'? So you'd end up with something like block--menu--23.tpl.php. It's just to prove to ourselves that the template system is in fact working and that something is running afoul with the name you're using.

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  • I tried using its bid, but still not working.
    – Marvzz
    Commented Dec 9, 2011 at 5:12
  • How did you create the template file?
    – Lester Peabody
    Commented Dec 9, 2011 at 5:28
  • I just found out its a known issue. drupal.org/node/1021270 Anyway, what i did is I copied an existing block.tpl.php and renamed it as instructed. I placed on on my appropriate theme folder.
    – Marvzz
    Commented Dec 9, 2011 at 5:33
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    I got it working though, block template should be: block--menu--menu_more_menu.tpl.php
    – Marvzz
    Commented Dec 9, 2011 at 6:32
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    Excellent. That's a serious DrupalWTF. Glad it's working.
    – Lester Peabody
    Commented Dec 9, 2011 at 6:34

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