Hide main page content block

Question

I've configured the Main page content block to show on all pages except those listed. The paths I have listed are:

• commodity-selection
• commodity-selection/*
• value-chain-studies
• value-chain-studies/*

When visiting one those pages however, the main page content is still present. Even after all caches are cleared.

Is there a trick to hiding the Main page content block?

What I'm trying to achieve is a page that that presents its content within a tab. Other tabs are populated with content from other nodes.

My approach so far has been to use Quicktabs to create a block with the node content I want (ie. node 1, 3, 5). I place that block in the content region and configure it to show on the page I want (node 1). I planned to then hide the Main page content block to hide the node 1 content, without success.

Appreciate your suggestions.

Answer 1

Main content is required. To hide it you can do this (I'm using bartik and hiding only for article) in theme's template.php:

function bartik_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
  if($node = menu_get_object()){
    if ($node->type == 'article') {
      $vars['page']['content']['system_main']['#access'] = FALSE;
    }
  }
}

However, I think you need to rethink your approach and either use Views, Display Suite, or Panels to take over the rendering.