Magento

I see that poll.xml loads the poll in the rhs of most pages.

<reference name="right">

But how do I specify that this block should not be displayed on the homepage?

David

CMS -> Frontpage -> Custom Design -> Layout Update XML

Check the alias of the poll.

Interesting. So a layout update. What file does this involve changing? (let’s say the admin UI didn’t exist)

Also, why isn’t poll mentioned in page.xml? I’m just trying to tease this apart, so I can better understand how magento works

Please have around there is a lot written about these kind of things. There are different ways to update the layout, through the layout files and the XML updates.

Poll is mentioned at poll.xml

So it is safe to say that the layout files specify the default locations of each template, and the updates are quick and easy, page specific overrides?

Btw, the alias for poll was right.poll and that worked beautifully. However, I’m also trying to remove the popular tags. The alias for the tags is tags_popular, but that doesn’t seem to remove the tag block from the frontpage.

<reference name="right">
<action method="unsetChild"><alias>right.poll</alias></action>
</reference>

The above works, but below does not:

<reference name="left">
<action method="unsetChild"><alias>tags_popular</alias></action>
</reference>