Drupal themes

Field Type Suggestions in Drupal 7

Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Today I finally got around to testing out the new field suggestions in Drupal 7. If you’re not familiar with the standard suggestions in short you can either use field templates or override theme_field using a naming convention not unlike we do with preprocess functions. What struck me as kind of odd was the lack suggestions for field types—maybe there’s a very good reason for this such as performance, I don’t know, but I thought it might be interesting to see if I could use them, if I wanted to.

Export Adaptivethemes Advanced Theme Settings

Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Sunday, February 14th, 2010

In the latest bleeding edge DEV version of Adaptivetheme we’ve introduced a new feature—the ability to export your theme settings. This is useful if you need to move your Drupal theme and you can’t just export and move the database as well.

Styling Google Calendar

Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Sunday, February 14th, 2010

A recent project used the Google Calendar widget - this is embedded in a iframe (in a standard Drupal block) and thus can’t be styled with CSS as per normal - but we wanted to style it to match the overall design.

After a bit of hunting around for a solution I found this: MyGoogleCal. The download link is a bit hidden - grab it directly here…

Add first and last classes to secondary local tasks

Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Sunday, December 27th, 2009

We had a project recently where we needed to add first and last classes to Drupals secondary local tasks. I was in a bit of a hurry so instead of trying to figure this out myself I Googled it and pretty quickly found this post on Drupal.org which seemed to fit the bill. Problem is the post doesn’t actually tell you how or where to use the snippet, which isn’t much good for those of you struggling with Drupal in the first place. Never fear, I’ll show you how to get those handy first/last classes into Drupals secondary local tasks.

Page template suggestions for taxonomy vocabs

Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Sunday, November 29th, 2009

Drupal’s template suggestions are plentiful and pretty powerful stuff, however, given all the options there are some noteable oversights. In particular the ability to use page-taxonomy suggestions per vocabulary, something like page-vocab-1.tpl.php to theme all taxonomy term pages in vocabulary 1 (where 1 is the VID or vocabulary id).

To achieve this we turn to our trusty preprocess_page function which by now every Drupal themer worth his or her salt knows all about.

Add Superfish Drop Menus to Any Theme, Easily

Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Monday, October 26th, 2009

How to add a Superfish drop menu to Genesis or Adaptivetheme is one of the most common questions I get. Believe when I say I get emails from well intentioned Drupal users on a weekly basis asking me this. So now, please stop emailing me, I relent, heres how its done.

Why I killed Node, may it RIP

Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Myself, like many others, have always had an acrimonious relationship with the word “node”. It didn’t exactly get off to a good start when node presented me with a rude “wtf” moment when we first met. Things only went down hill after that, node remaining aloof and abstract, without ever just coming out and telling me what it actually was.

This video walks you through the process of adding a Gpanel, enabling the regions and CSS, and then placing the blocks in the newly available regions.

You can learn more about the themes that use Gpanels for Drupal.org or our website:

http://drupal.org/project/adaptivetheme