Ah'! Thanks Josh, probably better for him to extend base.html in that case no? Index.html simply extends it and inserts content into its 'body' block.
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Josh Cartmell <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey Josh, I think his reasoning was to make the homepage a backend > editable page in which case there could be more than one of them. The ones > that don't have a slug of / would look for pages/homepage.html. By > extending index.html (and more likely pages/index.html) you can make them > all look the same without having duplicate templates > > > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:07 PM, JoshJ <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Wesley, >> >> What would be the reason behind keeping Mezzanines index.html and having >> your own homepage.html extend it? >> >> What I mean is, if you copy the index.html from the Mezzanine library and >> place it in your local templates folder you can override Mezzanines >> index.html and customize it however you like. So that whenever Mezzanine >> looks for index.html it will pull up your index.html template. Their index >> is more of a starting point and not a solution so feel free to cut it up >> however you'd like :) >> >> As an example I've set the templates folder for my project to be (via >> settings.py) to be the 'templates' folder from the root of my project. >> Ex: TEMPLATE_DIRS = (os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, "templates"),) >> >> So if I place index.html in that folder Mezzanine loads that file as my >> index. I can put whatever I want in the file and mezzanine will use it as >> the index. >> >> >> On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:09:46 AM UTC-7, Wesley wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> I am learning to customize homepage theme according to >>> http://bitofpixels.com/blog/mezzatheming-part-2-the-homepage/ >>> Here I hit a question that, homepage always use pages/index.html, >>> actually, I have a homepage.html extends pages/index.html. >>> >>> So, how to change the template name for the new added homepage(subclass >>> Page just as that artical said). >>> >>> Thanks. >>> Wesley >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Mezzanine Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mezzanine-users/Cekm4a0K7o8/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
