How to place blocks in code with zen theme?
Add the following function in your template.php

function THEMENAME_render_block($module, $delta, array $options = array()){
  $default_options = array(
    'title' =&gt; '&lt;none&gt;',
    'region' =&gt; -1,
  );

  $options = array_merge($default_options, $options);

  $block = db_query('SELECT * FROM {block} WHERE module = :module AND delta = :delta', array(':module' =&gt; $module, ':delta' =&gt; $delta))-&gt;fetchObject();
  if($block) {
    $block = block_load($module, $delta);
    $block-&gt;title = $options['title'];
    $block-&gt;region = $options['region'];
    $blocks = array($block);
    $rblocks = _block_render_blocks($blocks);
    $render_array = _block_get_renderable_array($rblocks);
    return drupal_render($render_array);
  }
  return "";
}


then in your tpl file of your specific page/node

&lt;?php print THEMENAME_render_block('&lt;moduleName&gt;', 'delta', array('title' =&gt; t('Block Title'))); ?&gt;