Placing a Block in a Region
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Placing a Block in a Region
with Joe Shindelar
This tutorial
covers how to place a block
in a region.
By the end of this tutorial,
you'll know how to place the opening
hours and location block
in the website's sidebar.
Before you get started
with this tutorial,
you want to make sure
that you're familiar with the concept
of blocks,
that the core Bartik theme is installed
and set as default,
and the opening hours and location
block must exist.
See the written version of this tutorial
for links
to each of these prerequisite
tutorials.
In the Manage administrative menu,
navigate to Structure,
and then Block layout.
Here, you'll see the Block layout page
which lists the current default
theme's regions.
Ensure that in the secondary tab,
the core Bartik theme is selected.
This is important because block
placement is defined per theme.
Next, locate the region
Sidebar second in the list.
Click the Place block button
next to it.
This triggers the Place block window,
which lists all the available blocks.
Locate the block Opening hours.
Here, Hours and location, and click
Place block next to it.
The Configure block window appears
and you can fill in the form.
Set the Title, which is the text to
be displayed for the block.
We'll set it to Hours and location.
Make sure that the Display title
box is checked,
indicating you would like to display
the title for the block.
You can choose a region from the
theme to display the block in.
In this case, Sidebar second.
You can also hide or display the
block on specific pages.
In the case of the Farmers' Market
website,
you do not set any of these
configuration options
because you want to show the
block everywhere.
Finally, click Save block.
After which you're taken back
to the Block layout page.
From here, you can drag blocks to
change the order
in which they'll appear within
a region.
Verify that the Opening hours and
location block
is listed in the Sidebar second
region.
And then at the bottom of the page,
click Save blocks.
The block has now been placed
in the Sidebar of all pages
that use the Bartik theme.
We can confirm this by navigating
back to the homepage
and seeing our Hours and location
block displayed
in the Sidebar second region.
In this tutorial,
we placed a block into the Sidebar
second region of the Bartik theme,
set a title to display for the block and
configured it to display on all pages.