How to add content type to front page

Question

I created a content type Carousel. I created a region Huge.

On the front page, I want the content type to be placed in the region Huge.

Current process:

1. Create content
2. Specify publish to front page.

Even though I specify this:

render($page['carousel']).

All of the content is being loaded in:

render($page['content']).

What is the drupal way of doing this on the front page?

The use case is for marketing to create new Carousel content type >> publish to front page >> the HUGE region is updated with new content.

This should be different than regular blog's posts that appear on the front page.

Thanks for any help! noah

Answer 1

You can use Views module to create a block and place that block in your custom region

1. Here is the step by step process to create a slide show with slide show module
2. And placing block in the region can be done here admin/structure/block

To create custom block and template

/**
  * Implements hook_theme().
 */
function YOUR_MODULE_theme() {

$theme = array();

$theme = array(
    'my_custom theme' => array(
        'variables' => array('items' => array()),
        'template' => 'my-custom-theme'
    ),
return $theme;
}
/**
* Implements hook_block_info().
*/
function YOUR_MODULE_block_info() {
   $blocks = array();
   $blocks['slideshow'] = array(
   'info' => t('Block Name'),
);
return $blocks;
}
/**
 * Implements hook_block_view().
*/
function YOUR_MODULE_block_view($delta = '') {
   $block = array();
  switch ($delta) {
        case 'slideshow':
        $block['subject'] = '';
        $block['content'] = _YOUR_MODULE_slideshow_callback();
        break;
     }
   return $block;
 }
function  _YOUR_MODULE_slideshow_callback() {
  $result = "Your query to fetch content";
   foreach($result as $row){
       $items[] = $row;
       }
   $output = $output .= theme('my_custom theme', array('items' => $items));;
    return $output;
 }

and write html code for your slide show in my-custom-theme.tpl.php file

Answer 2

You can done it using editing template. Render your Carousel content in Huge region of page--front.tpl.php.

Answer 3

Just follow the below mentioned steps:

1. Make one block with content type 'Carousel'.(You can make simple block from views.)
2. Goto block section. Select 'Huge' region. Then In block configuration, jump into visibility settings, In that go to Pages section, And select show to specific page and add in that text area.

That can solve your problem.