Well, if you are making the homepage an editable page in the page tree you
have to modify your projects urls.py and it will specifically look for
pages/index.html for the home page. I usually make pages/homepage.html (to
match the name of the model) and then have pages/index.html only contain:
{% extends "pages/homepage.html" %}
That way pages/index.html gets the styling from pages/homepage.html and any
other instance of a HomePage page will pick up styling from
pages/homepage.html making it consistent.
pages/homepage.html would be something like:
{% extend "pages/page.html" %}
{% block main %}
{{ content goes here }}
{% endblock %}
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Josh Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>>>>
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