Themes

Thanks for your response. I can't move this to the Themes forum; I tried to post over there but then it was a duplicate.

To answer your questions:

I had all my blocks on the right in 2.6.5, in the course pages. It was only after my upgrade to 2.8 that the blocks will not display on the right, even though they are configured to do so. So yes, it did support right-side blocks.

My theme is a direct copy of Crisp (modified off the new copy), which is based on Bootstrap.

I downloaded their latest version, which states it is compatible with 2.8. It works except for the right-side blocks position issue, a navbar disappearing issue, and a home icon disappearing. I did not post over on their page because I didn't realize I could (I don't post for support often, although I've been a Moodle user since 2007). I did just post a comment over there to see if they'll respond.

Right-side blocks appear on some pages correctly (category pages, the "/my" page - ie. index.php), but not on the course pages (ie view.php). I had student enrollments  and course completions showing on the right side so they're always visible in the courses. Now they're going to have to click on the navigation button (which is a black square instead of the home icon), and scroll way down past the Navigation and Administration blocks.

It is definitely a Theme issue, so I'm hoping it can get resolved before I have to take the site out of maintenance mode on Monday - the students are going to be complaining about not finding their information. (They sometimes struggle to find things that I've put right in front of them! Hiding it from them is going to be... interesting.)

Thank you for your help Mary. Yes, Crisp does allow right-side blocks. I'll attach a screenshot where the blocks are on the right (via the /my page, or index.php). They just won't appear on the right in the course pages (i.e, view.php).

I haven't touched the config.php file at all, so it's pretty much what you've seen. I'll post it here though. The issue appears with the 'course' array in columns2.php.
I edited columns2.php in an test to see if I could get the navbar back (my comments added):

<!-- Blank when the <div> and <nav> tags are there, so I removed
  <div id="page-navbar" class="clearfix">
    <nav id="pageheader-nav" class="breadcrumb-nav"><?php echo $OUTPUT->navbar(); ?></nav>
  </div>
-->
<?php echo $OUTPUT->navbar(); ?>

Now the navbar is back on the top of the courses pages, but appears double in some places. So I think it's something with not reading the .css formatting properly.

Here is the content of my config.php:

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$THEME->name = 'pbiu_theme';


// The only thing you need to change in this file when copying it to
// create a new theme is the name above. You also need to change the name
// in version.php and lang/en/theme_pbiu_theme.php as well.

$THEME->doctype = 'html5';
$THEME->parents = array('bootstrapbase');
$THEME->sheets = array('custom');
$THEME->supportscssoptimisation = false;
$THEME->yuicssmodules = array();

$THEME->editor_sheets = array();

$THEME->plugins_exclude_sheets = array(
    'block' => array(
        'html',
    ),
);

$THEME->rendererfactory = 'theme_overridden_renderer_factory';
$THEME->csspostprocess = 'theme_pbiu_theme_process_css';

$THEME->blockrtlmanipulations = array(
    'side-pre' => 'side-post',
    'side-post' => 'side-pre'
);

$THEME->layouts = array(
  'login' => array(
        'file' => 'column1login.php',
        'regions' => array(),
        'options' => array('langmenu' => true),
    ),
  // The site home page.
  'frontpage' => array(
      'file' => 'columns3home.php',
      'regions' => array('side-pre'),
      'defaultregion' => 'side-pre',
      'options' => array('nonavbar' => true),
  ),
  'course' => array(
      'file' => 'columns2.php',
      'regions' => array('side-pre'),
      'defaultregion' => 'side-pre',
      'options' => array('nonavbar' => true),
  ),
  'blog' => array(
      'file' => 'masonryblogpage.php',
      'regions' => array('side-pre'),
      'defaultregion' => 'side-pre',
      'options' => array('nonavbar' => true),
  ),
  'coursecat' => array(
      'file' => 'columns2.php',
      'regions' => array('defaultregion' => 'side-pre'),
      'options' => array('nonavbar' => true),
  ),
);

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