I am trying to place a block region inside a news content type but it is not rendering.
node--news.html.twig:
<article{{ attributes }} class="portal-article"> <h1 class="article-title">{{node.label}}</h1> <p class="article-date">{{ date }}</p> <div class="article-main-content"> {{ content }} </div> <div class="article-sidebar"> {{ page.article_sidebar }} </div> </article> How can I get the block to render inside of a node?
This is probably the solution, "Making region content available to node templates in Drupal 8": http://atendesigngroup.com/blog/making-region-content-available-node-templates-drupal-8
Replace “THEME” with your theme name below:
/** * Implements hook_preprocess_node() for NODE document templates. */ function THEME_preprocess_node(&$variables) { // Allowed view modes $view_mode = $variables['view_mode']; // Retrieve view mode $allowed_view_modes = ['full']; // Array of allowed view modes (for performance so as to not execute on unneeded nodes) // If view mode is in allowed view modes list, pass to THEME_add_regions_to_node() if(in_array($view_mode, $allowed_view_modes)) { // Allowed regions (for performance so as to not execute for unneeded region) $allowed_regions = ['primary_content']; THEME_add_regions_to_node($allowed_regions, $variables); } } /** * THEME_add_regions_to_node */ function THEME_add_regions_to_node($allowed_regions, &$variables) { // Retrieve active theme $theme = \Drupal::theme()->getActiveTheme()->getName(); // Retrieve theme regions $available_regions = system_region_list($theme, 'REGIONS_ALL'); // Validate allowed regions with available regions $regions = array_intersect(array_keys($available_regions), $allowed_regions); // For each region foreach ($regions as $key => $region) { // Load region blocks $blocks = entity_load_multiple_by_properties('block', array('theme' => $theme, 'region' => $region)); // Sort ‘em uasort($blocks, 'Drupal\block\Entity\Block::sort'); // Capture viewable blocks and their settings to $build $build = array(); foreach ($blocks as $key => $block) { if ($block->access('view')) { $build[$key] = entity_view($block, 'block'); } } // Add build to region $variables[$region] = $build; } } After clearing caches, I can now print content specified in Drupal’s block layout using my node template files. For example, if I’ve specified primary_content in $allowed_regions, then I can access it via node--node_type.html.twig with:
{{ primary_content }} 
system_region_list(): The second argument is not a string, but an integer. Then, since the function is declared as system_region_list($theme, $show = REGIONS_ALL), there is no need to use the second argument, if you are going to use its default value.