10 life-saving modules for drupal theming

10 LIFE-SAVING MODULES FOR DRUPAL THEMING Athens Drupal Meetup - 11/11/10

MODULES 1. Admin 2. Node and Comments Form Settings 3. Vertical Tabs 4. Menu Attributes 5. Themer 6. Theme Editor 7. Composite Layout 8. Skinr 9. Contemplate 10. Context

1. ADMIN - http://www.drupal.org/project/admin - UI improvement to the standard Drupal admin interface - Prerequisites: Tao base theme & Rubik Theme - Conﬁgure at admin/settings/admin - Creation of admin “plugins” (Drupal Blocks)

2. NODE AND COMMENT - http://drupal.org/project/nodeformsettings - Make modiﬁcations to node form elements - Make modiﬁcations to comment form elements - User hook_form_alter - Different settings for every content type

3. VERTICAL TABS - http://drupal.org/project/vertical_tabs - In core for Drupal 7 - Provides vertical tabs on the node add form - When used with Form module, allows vertical tabs in every form

4. MENU ATTRIBUTES - http://drupal.org/project/menu_attributes - Allow to specify attributes to menu items - Id, name, target, rel, class, style, accesskey - Very useful on primary links

5. THEMER - http://drupal.org/project/themer - Enable, disable and customize body classes (path, random, tokens, roles, locale) - Utility functions : themer_add_class, themer_class_date_prox, themer_string_to_css - <body class=”<?php print themer_body_class(); ?>”>

6. THEME EDITOR - http://drupal.org/project/theme_editor - Interface for the editing of theme files within a Drupal site - Simple backup and restore functions - Add or delete files - Permissions for themes and file types

7. COMPOSITE LAYOUT - http://drupal.org/project/composite - Consider it a light version of Panels - Displays nodes in complex layouts - Adds box logic to node display - Works with CCK ﬁelds

8. SKINR - http://drupal.org/project/skinr - Defines a set of reusable and modular CSS styles - These styles are available to Drupal UI - Define a skin in .info file - skinr[skin_system_name][title] = Title

9.CONTEMPLATE - http://drupal.org/project/contemplate - Modification of teaser and body fields using administrator defined templates - Uses PHP code in a manner similar to PHP Template - All of the node object variables are available for use in each template - node-{nodetype}-{field}.tpl.php (body,teaser, RSS) - node-{nodetype}.tpl.php or node.tpl.php - sites/all/contemplates

10. CONTEXT - http://drupal.org/project/context - Manage contextual conditions and reactions for different portions of your site - Context UI is a administrative interface - Context layouts provides a formalized way for themes to declare and switch between page templates

THANKS! George Papadongonas george@infowonders.gr twitter: @infowonders

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