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Twitter style Login box for Drupal

Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Monday, August 16th, 2010

In this tutorial I’ll show just how easy it is to do a Twitter style drop-down login form in Drupal 6 (probably just as easy if not identical in Drupal 5 and 7). If you don’t know what this looks like these days you better get over to http://twitter.com/ and scope it out so you know that I’m on about - see the link in the top right corner…

Requirements

Login Toboggan

  • Download and install the module

How to theme the User Login page in Maintenance Mode

Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Monday, August 9th, 2010

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.

100 Percent width Header and Footer Backgrounds in Adaptivetheme

Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Friday, June 4th, 2010

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.

Border Radius Reference

Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Full reference for khtml, moz and webkit + CSS3 rounded corners.

Page Template Suggestions per Node Type

Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Sometimes its useful to have a page.tpl.php template per node type. While you can have a node-[type].tpl.php be default in Drupal 6, the same does not apply to page level templates.

To add these template suggestions to your theme simply add the following code to template.php, replacing themeName with the name of your theme.

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.