Posted by BKaernel on Fri, Jun 05, 2026 - 9:40am --- Updated: Jun 05 '26 - 9:46am

Hello. I didn't know the block "title combo". In the beginning, I didn't understand :-) because for me it was just a title and a navigation, without connexion.
For exemple, I'm trying to customise the header and the start of post and page.
I specify that I do a theme based on basis.

I  remove this block everywhere and change by a simple block title.
The other reason for removing it is that the place just after the title (for messages) is not practical for me.
 
I create a region "admin-secondary" at the top and put messages in it. 
It's more practical, i think and keep the design "outline".

Last thing, why keep title outside the <article> (like in Drupal) ?
I don't see the interest of that ?
An article is a title(with header or not) + metas + content + footer(tags and share)
if i refered to rules of html.

I think it was easy to customise the start of post and page to put date before title, but if i look at the template (node.tpl.php), i have curious thing (h2 for title, date in >footer>) and it's not easy to put the date at the start. Do i need to create a custom module for a block date ? 

Comments

Fri, Jun 05, 2026 - 10:01am by BKaernel

I found a simple solution... In node.tpl.php i put. 

<?php print render($title_prefix); ?>
<?php if (!empty($title)): ?>
<?php if ($page): ?>
<h1><?php print $title; ?></h1>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php print render($title_suffix); ?>

And i put the date in a balise <div class="entry-metas"></div>

Fri, Jun 05, 2026 - 12:12pm by izmeez

Choosing to not use the "Page title combo" block on content can also be helpful if you want to arrange the "Page tabs" menu and "Page title" differently.