Adding and changing the blocks displayed on Developer Portal pages

You can add new blocks, and modify the existing blocks that are displayed on Developer Portal pages.

Before you begin

You must have administrator access to complete this task.

About this task

Blocks are boxes of content that are rendered into an area, or region, of a page. The content can be custom HTML or plain text, and you can specify the appearance, shape, size, position, and also configure which pages a block appears on by editing its visibility settings. You can also modify an existing block to change its appearance, shape, size, position, and visibility.

Procedure

To add or modify blocks, complete the following steps as required.

  1. Click Structure > Blocks.
    All of the blocks that are in the system are displayed by theme. From the Blocks administration page you can assign blocks to a region, and control the order of the blocks within the region. Blocks are positioned on a per-theme basis, so if you enable more than one theme on your site, you can place blocks differently for each theme.
  2. To add a block, complete the following steps:
    1. Click Add block.
      The Blocks create page is displayed.
    2. Complete the Block title and Block description fields.
    3. Enter the content that you require for your block into the Block body.
      You can write your content in Full HTML, Filtered HTML, or Plain text. You can use the edit icons at the top of the Block body field to configure your content. Click the Edit HTML Source icon The Edit HTML Source icon. to enter HTML content.
      The Blocks create page.
    4. In the Region settings section, specify in which themes and regions the block is displayed.
      The Region settings section.
    5. In the Visibility settings section, specify how you want the block to be displayed.
      You can specify which pages the block is displayed on, limit the block to show only on pages that display specific content types, configure the language settings, restrict which roles the block is visible to, and allow individual users to customize the visibility of the block.
      The Visibility settings section.
    6. Click Save block.
  3. To modify an existing block, from the Blocks administration page complete the following steps:
    1. Click configure alongside the required block to change the block title, the region settings, and the visibility settings.
    2. To change the region in which a block is positioned, select the required Region from the drop-down list next to the required block.
    3. To change the vertical sort-order of a block within a region, drag the block to the required position.
  4. Click Save blocks to save your changes.