Adding a custom region to myzen

Regions are essentially containers for Drupal blocks. The layout of regions in a page effectively dictates the layout of the site.

The myzen theme contains the following regions by default:

• First sidebar

• Second sidebar

• Navigation bar

• Highlighted content

• Content top

• Content bottom

• Header

• Footer

• Page closure

In this recipe, we will be looking to replace the existing Content bottom region with two separate regions named Content bottom 1 and Content bottom 2 respectively.

Getting ready

We are going to assume that the myzen theme from earlier in this chapter is enabled and the current default. We will be updating the default page.tpl.php template file that is used by myzen. If this file does not exist in sites/all/themes/myzen/templates, it will need to be imported into this folder from sites/all/themes/zen/templates/page.tpl.php.

How to do it...

First up, we will be updating the regions list in the .info file.

1. Open the myzen.info file in an editor.

2. Scroll down to the section dealing...