Custom Regions
Creating Custom Regions
All Drupal themes you download will come with a number of pre-defined regions into which you can already place blocks (normally header, left-sidebar, content, right-sidebar, footer), but it can sometimes be useful to create your own.
This can seem a little daunting at first, but it's really just a simple two-step process:
- step 1 - define the custom region in your template.php file
- step 2 - add the custom region to your page.tpl.php file
So, lets see how it works.
Step 1 - define the custom region in your template.php file
All themes should have a template.php file contained within the theme folder.
Open the template.php file in your chosen editor and locate the function titled 'function nameoftheme_regions' (where nameoftheme will be the name of the theme to which you are adding a custom region). This will probably be the first function in the file, and should look something like this:
function nameoftheme_regions() {
return array(
'header' => t('header'),
'left' => t('left sidebar'),
'content' => t('content'),
'right' => t('right sidebar'),
'footer' => t('footer')
);
}Okay, now just add your custom region so that it looks like the pre-defined regions.





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