Wrap node template

Question

Using the blog module, I'm setting a custom template for the individual blog articles (node--blog.tpl.php) which contains a list item and the content inside.

However, I can't figure out where I should be putting my wrapping <ul> tag? If I put it in either page.tpl.php or region--content.tpl.php then the entire page content is (understandably) wrapped including pagination and other elements. I just need to wrap the list items.

Thanks and please be gentle with a newb :)

EDIT: code

page.tpl.php

...
<?php print render($page['content']); ?>
...

region--content.tpl.php

<?php if ($content): ?>
 <div class="<?php print $classes; ?>">
  <ul class="blog-list">
   <?php print $content; ?>
  </ul>
 </div>
<?php endif; ?>

node--blog.tpl.php

...
<li>
 #content#
</li>
....

Answer 1

Taking a guess that you're talking about the /blog page, the content is built in blog_page_last(). The nodes themselves will be in $build['nodes'] when that function returns.

As with pretty much everything in Drupal there are a bunch of different ways to alter that content; I think the easiest in this case would be to use hook_page_alter():

function MYMODULE_page_alter(&$page) {
  if (current_path() == 'blog') {
    $page['content']['system_main']['nodes']['#prefix'] = '<ul>';
    $page['content']['system_main']['nodes']['#suffix'] = '</ul>';
  }
}