Posted by amazongrace on June 9, 2011 at 4:00pm
Hello all!
I'm helping Matt organize the next meet-up. He was thinking of focusing on Drupal 7 Theming. I'd like to collect your questions on theming so we can get a presentation of some kind prepared. Would you give me some ideas on what you'd find helpful? Thank you!
~Mel
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Topics
Think some good subpoints (that you guys probably already thought of):
* File naming conventions
* Sub-theming
* Fusion
* JavaScript's relationship with themes
* When to use panels as an alternative
* Theming functions
* Devel themer module
* Alternative theming engines maybe? (I prefer the default I think)
* Plugin-based theming (How to theme Views for instance)
* Farbtastic integration
* Making themes customizable by the admins (or maybe even the end user)
Also: Hi Mel! :)
teeth-cutters
Great list, javecantrell.
I think sub-theming would be an excellent "cut your teeth on this" presentation. This consists of taking one of the solid, vetted, community-reviewed base themes (such as zen, fusion, or omega) and creating a subtheme inheriting all the functionality and resources of the base theme while providing a facility for the themer to implement overrides without actually changing that base theme. Themers may use this approach to implement a single theme override on up to dozens upon dozens, or even leverage this subtheming approach as a guide to progressively completing an entire theme. Subthemes of subthemes are also possible :).
Here is a quick and dirty guide to subtheming (for Drupal 6).
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matt j. sorenson, g.d.o., d.o.