I am trying to add a block "question" which I have created, to the center of my moodle page. But my block "question" is not shown under the "Add a block" of my moodle page
Why is it so? My block "question" is allowed to be added under the course and main moodle page.
There is not much you can do with a block, if you can move it then you are restricted to only the areas indicated in Mary Cooch's comment earlier in this discussion. In your case you can only move the block within the course you created it in. You cannot reasign it to a new location. Neither will it show up in the Add Block dropdown list.
Mary
Thank you for your reply Mary. Is there a simple way to place a block in the center of the page? I read somewhere that some themes support this. Do you have any idea which themes allow this? Thank you for your kind help.
Any theme can be easily modified to allow for blocks to be placed in the main region of the front page. This is what I did to modify the standard them to work this way:
Step 1 - Modify [yourtheme]/layout/general.php
put <?php echo $OUTPUT->blocks_for_region('main') ?> under <?php echo $OUTPUT->main_content() ?>
e.g.
<div id="region-main-wrap">
<div id="region-main">
<div class="region-content">
<?php echo $OUTPUT->main_content() ?>
<?php echo $OUTPUT->blocks_for_region('main') ?>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Step 2 - Modify [yourtheme]/config.php
// apply same layout to each possible layout type
$layouts=array('standard','course','coursecategory','incourse','frontpage','admin','mydashboard','mypublic','popup','frametop','embedded','maintenance','print');
foreach ($layouts as $layout){
$THEME->layouts[$layout]= array(
'file' => 'general.php',
'regions' => array('side-post','main'),
'defaultregion' => 'side-post',
);
}
Thanks for updating that post Guy, but you missed off some other important things too like...
$hasregionmain = $PAGE->blocks->region_has_content('main', $OUTPUT);
in theme/themename/layout/frontpage.php, general.php and report.php
and also...
$string['regionmain'] = 'Center';
which needs adding to theme/themname/lang/en/theme_themename.php
Cheers
Mary
