In this tutorial, we'll take a brief look at what Panels means by "Style" as applied to a region or panel, and I'll walk you through the settings form and how to change a style for a panel pane using the Panels administrative console.
For a more in-depth look at Panels Style Plugins, including how to create your own, check out these related tutorials:
Additional resources
Customize Panels Styles with CTools Style Plugins
Styling Panel Panes with Stylizer
Chaos Tools Suite (CTools) — Drupal.org
Panels — Drupal.org
In this lesson, I provide a recap of the Panels-related tutorials in this series.
Additional resources
Building Websites in Drupal 7 using Panels — Drupalize.Me
Customize Panels Styles with CTools Style Plugins — Drupalize.Me
Display Suite is another popular module for handling the layout and display of content on a Drupal site. In this next set of tutorials, we'll take a look at how markup is affected in Drupal when using Display Suite.
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In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a custom layout to use in Display Suite. We’ll take a look at the instructions in Display Suite’s ds.api.php file to find out how to provide our own custom layout. In this process, we’ll take a shortcut and copy a layout from Display Suite into my custom theme and modify it. In the next tutorial, we’ll look at the drush command ds-build which allows you to quickly scaffold a display suite custom layout in your module or theme.
Additional resources
Now that we have gained an understanding of how to create a custom layout manually (in the previous tutorial), we’ll look at the drush command ds-build which allows you to quickly scaffold a Display Suite custom layout in your module or theme.
Additional resources
In this tutorial, I will show you how to add a CSS class to apply to a region using Display Suite.
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Drupal's content moderation and workflow tools allow you to configure and support a flexible multistep publication process.
An overview of some of our favorite Drupal documentation resources.
Fields and the Field API
TopicFields are the building blocks of Drupal's powerful content modeling system. The Field API allows for the development of custom field types to suit almost any data display and collection needs.
Many sites require the ability to upload, manage, and display various assets like files, images, videos, and audio.
Multilingual Sites
TopicA multilingual site has more than 1 language that users interact with, either through the content, the user interface, or both.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of optimizing your online content, so that your content will rank higher in organic (non-paid) search engine results.
Debug Drupal Code
TopicDebugging is the practice of troubleshooting an application through the use of tools and processes in order to find and fix bugs, or better understand the underlying code.
Taxonomy
TopicTaxonomy in Drupal provides a way to classify your site’s content. Taxonomy vocabularies are created with terms within those vocabularies.
Much like using Context to enhance the core block system, the Bean module takes blocks to a whole new level. The Bean module makes blocks act more like content types. It allows for different block types and for adding fields to blocks. We are also able to manage the display of a block, which comes in handy with Context. We can have a block look different based on the Context of the block.
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In this lesson we will install the Bean module and tour the changes it adds to the core block system. We will also look at and learn about block types, and how we can add fields to these types.
Now that Blocks are fieldable and we can have different types, lets demo how this works. In this lesson we will create different block types and show how they can be used just like content. We will also show how we can edit a block that was created with Bean.
In this lesson we will demonstrate how Beans are available in the Context UI. We will place some of the these blocks in different locations and also demonstrate how using different block displays with different context allows us to have a block appear differently based on context.
One of the biggest downsides of the core block system are its permissions. To allow different roles to do different things with blocks is basically an all or none permission. The Bean module provides more granularity for block permissions. We can now add the ability to have site content creators create blocks but not give them permissions to all the other block admin pages.
