I am currently trying to create a Drupal theme as a Zen subtheme, by doing the following:
- I created a new Zen subtheme by following instructions in "How to build your own sub-theme (6.x-2.x)" documentation
- The problem is that when I enable the new theme, no header, footer or sidebars are displayed. When the new theme is enabled, these regions disappear also from main Zen theme.
- I am using Drupal 6.16 with Zen 6.x-2.0
- I have succesfully created Zen subthemes with previous version of Zen (6.x-1.x), so I suspect this problem has something to do with the new version of Zen
Since Drupal doesn't display any error messages related to this issue, I am totally puzzled. Therefore any tips on how to debug or solve this problem are MUCH appreciated!
The following debugging has already been done:
- Apache error / access logs give no new insight
- Region variables (
$content_top, $content_bottom, $header, etc.) in page.tpl.php are empty
Finally, I was able to work around the problem by using Zenophile:
- Installed and configured Zenophile
- Created new Zen subtheme with it
- Copied all customized files from my old sub-theme to the newly created Zenophile base
If nobody can tell me a better approach in a couple of days, I will close this question from my behalf and proceed with this approach in the future as well.