Drupal themes

A recent client wanted to remove everything from the user login page when the site was in maintenance (or Site off-line as its referred to in most system messages and documentation). Just showing the user login form when the site is off-line actually makes a lot of sense because whats the point of showing things like primary links, search block or whatever else might show on your normal user login page.

I’ve been asked a few times by Drupal themers and designers how to do 100% header and footer backgrounds in Adaptivetheme—and retain the theme settings so end users can still adjust the overall page width. Actually this is pretty easy - its just a matter of adding a couple of wrapper DIV’s in the right places and overriding the layout variables that Adaptivetheme uses to set the width.

As many of you may know Bartik is one of the candidate themes for Drupal 7 - we only have until the 17th of May to bring it up to core worthiness so if you’re a front end developer your help is needed, and its needed now.

NOTE: I have submitted a feature request to Drupal 7 to have this included in core - if you have some opinion on that please see Field Type Template Suggestions

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.