How to theme maintenance page for omega subtheme?

Question

Drupal's "Theming the Drupal maintenance page" gives a good overview for theming the maintenance page for 'normal' themes:

1. Copy modules/system/maintenance-page.tpl.php to your theme's templates directory
2. In the settings.php file, enable the $conf['maintenance_theme'] variable
3. Copy you page.tpl.php contents into maintenance-page.tpl.php and edit as necessary

But my site uses an Omega subtheme, so I don't have a page.tpl.php (well, it's not quite the same as these instructions are anticipating). I'm a little lost among all the omega templates & regions.

How do I theme my omega subtheme's maintence page to look like the rest of my site?

Answer 1

There's always a parent template, even if you don't see it in your base_theme.

The inheritance will go:

1. omega_subtheme template of NAME
2. then omega template of NAME
3. then drupal core template of name

So you'll need to copy the drupal core templates. They can be found in

DRUPALROOT/modules/system

You can find page.tpl, maintenance-page.tpl.php and all the base templates.