Drupal 7 overriding node.tpl.php

Question

I am trying to override the front page node, however after following the guide from the official site, it's not working.

Guide: https://www.drupal.org/node/1585528

I have taken node.tpl.php and renamed it to node--front.tpl.php and made changes to the layout, saved and cleared cache. The changes are not being displayed.

Now if I edit node.tpl.php directly it shows the changes, anyone know what I am doing wrong to override specific node templates?

EDIT: I want to move the title below the image being displayed in the front page.

See below: Moving the title block under the content block, moves the title down as I want it to do, however how do I specify this for just the front page and not all nodes? (renaming node.tpl.php to node--front.tpl.php does not work as mentioned above)

In node.tpl.php: (title block)

<?php print render($title_prefix); ?>
<?php if (!$page): ?>
  <h2<?php print $title_attributes; ?>>
    <a href="<?php print $node_url; ?>"><?php print $title; ?></a>
  </h2>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php print render($title_suffix); ?>

(content block)

<div class="content clearfix"<?php print $content_attributes; ?>>
<?php
  // We hide the comments and links now so that we can render them later.
  hide($content['comments']);
  hide($content['links']);
  print render($content);
?>

Neha Singhania Neha Singhania · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-28T11:13:41

To override the node template for particular node, you need to override the default node.tpl.php. For this copy the existing node.tpl.php file to node--{node_id}.tpl.php.

If you want to override the page template only for front page then you can create page--front.tpl.php file and copy the page.tpl.php file and then modify it as per your requirement.

Still you have issues, then use hook_preprocess_page() in template.php and use dpm() function to find the theme_suggestions that will give the sequence of execution of templates file.

Drupal 7 overriding node.tpl.php

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