I have an issue in Drupal with getting node content to display itself. I suspect it could have to with the CSS styling, although I’m not 100% sure what’s causing the issue.
Background:
So basically I’m trying to setup a blog but I’m running into serious issues trying to simply get the blog posts to display themselves.
I created a custom Drupal 7 theme using the export function of Artisteer (http://www.artisteer.com/?p=overview). A stylesheet called style.css was generated. I put some of my own CSS into this stylesheet along with the parts that were auto-generated. I should mention I did some amount of custom CSS to force the homepage to look the way I wanted.
I followed the instructions from the PDF at (http://learnbythedrop.com/buildingyourblog) to create a blog (great easy-to-follow guide). The most relevant pages for Views are pages 34 – 36, where he takes you through how to create a “Blog Post” view, in order to display your blog content correctly. However, when I got to the point where he created sample blog content and it displayed it’s title and main content, this simply didn’t work for me. See this link for example (Sample content that I created for testing purposes):
(http://www.productworld.com/blog-posts/2012/06/08/hello)
I can see a list of titles for sample content that I created (under the Recent Posts block), but I can’t view any content from the individual blog posts themselves. The page is just blank.
Also, I can’t see a list of the titles and teaser links – it should show up under (http://www.productworld.com/blog-posts) but that URL gives me a “page not found” error. This was something that worked in a previous iteration but now does not work.
Here are 2 screenshots of my View settings, in case it’s relevant:
Questions:
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What is the likely cause of the blog content not displaying? (If I do a preview of the blog post within the Views section I can see the blog content just fine, it just won’t display on the actual page.) Is it styling? Some setting in Views? Some Block setting? I’ve searched my style.css file and tried commenting out everything to do with “content:hidden” and “display:none” to no avail. I’ve tried every combination of settings in the blog posts View to no avail. I’ve tried placing “Main Page Content” and “View: Blog Posts” blocks in various regions, and changing around the settings that restrict where the block can be displayed. The blog post title/body content doesn’t show up in the page source at all, which could be a clue. How would I go about debugging such a problem?
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Why is http://www.productworld.com/blog-posts saying “page not found”, even though I’ve specifically set up a view to create a page at this URL? And why does http://www.productworld.com/blog-posts/2012/06/14/hello-world-3 show up as a valid page, when it contains “blog-posts” in it’s URL?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. If I should display stuff to do with my stylesheet please let me know.
To me it looks as if you have panels overriding the Node template. Which is why your node is not being displayed properly.
Go to Structure > Panels and see if the Node Template option under Manage pages is enabled. If it is, that’s probably your issue. You can tell if it’s enabled by looking to the right of the text to see whether it says enable or edit.
You can then edit that setting and then edit the content and choose Node > Body to get the body of the blog post to show correctly.
Take a look at this intro video to panels if you aren’t familiar with it. http://yadadrop.com/drupal-video/panels-3-overview