In this lesson we cover another "extra" of Display Suite, Views Displays. This basically allows you to take over a view template file and use Display Suite to layout your views.
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In this lesson we cover several extra options provided by the included "Extras" module with display suite. We will show how turning on the Contextual Links extra makes it easier to edit a layout when viewing an entity that is using it. We also look at the Page Title extra that allows you to hide/show the title for a particular layout. Finally we discuss a very powerful feature that allows you to have an option of an end user to select between different view modes.
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Region to Block
FreeIn this lesson we learn how you can take a display region and create a block out of it to be placed in Drupal core's block system.
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In this lesson we cover using the search display portion of Display Suite. This allows you to have a custom layout for your search results as well as your user search results. Display Suite offers lots of functionality here that you just can't get with a core configuration of search.
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Display Suite Fields
FreeIn this lesson we cover adding different type of custom fields to your layout using Display Suite. From adding a custom code field, blocks, to dynamic fields, each of these can be moved around your layout and replicated/modified across different display modes.
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Omega is a Drupal base theme that provides you with a really nice responsive framework. Omega also provides a lot of configuration options that are accessed through the UI rather than code. So, you can adjust the display settings and know that the underlying framework will be intact.
In this series, we're going to be demonstrating the Omega module by converting an existing Drupal theme into an Omega sub-theme. We'll talk about the HTML and CSS that's involved, and how they work together. We'll be working with theme functions and looking at the Omega best practices around how to break out your theme functions, where to put those, and how to use them.
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PHP for Themers
FreeBefore we dive into advanced theming we are going to review the basic PHP you will need to use. This is a short review of PHP, including topics like data structures (arrays and objects), conditionals and operators, loops, and functions.
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In this series, we talk about template.php, the file where all your functions live. We’ll also discuss preprocess functions and overriding theming functions. You’ll learn how to create new variables and override existing ones using template.php. With these tools you can allow your theme to have complete control of outputted HTML.
In this video you’ll learn when to use a tpl.php file or your template.php file, and we’ll look at differences between them. We’ll also review the three main steps of theming.
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In this lesson we cover how one can use view modes and display suite to allow multiple options of layouts for content display. This allows a user to have a different layout of the same content for different scenarios of the site. Combining this with views and you can start to see the power of display suite in action.
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In this lesson we cover the basics of using Display Suite to modify the layout of a particular content type. We cover all the potential templates, adding classes to regions, and lots of configurations to set to taylor the layout to your needs. We also discuss how you can create your own template files and layouts for your own customizations.
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Because Omega doesn't make assumptions about your layout, it comes with lots of options and plenty of regions to work with. This is great but also has some down falls espcially if you are converting an exisiting theme that just doesn't need as many regions and zones. Along with removing regions you may need to add some as well. In this lesson we will demonstrate:
- Adding a region
- Removing regions
- Placing content into these regions
- Cleaning up the .info file
Once this is complete, we now have our converted theme setup just as it was before when it comes to the grid system and some blocks in place to make sure the layout is looking good.
NOTE: Kyle initially sets a position, but not the weight, of the footer_bottom region in this video, and then you'll see that he catches the mistake, and fixes it to have a weight of 3.
Let’s talk about taking your image uploads and turning them into unique shapes with fabulous effects using the ImageCache Actions module.
We already know that being able to set a standard for image display creates consistency and a better user experience. Drupal comes with the ability to do basic image manipulation like resizing them. By downloading and enabling another module, ImageCache Actions, we can do fancy things to those images, making your display truly customized.
I am assuming that you already know how to create Image Style presets.
For this tutorial, you need to make sure the Image module that comes with Drupal Core and you also need to download and enable the ImageCache Actions module. This can be found at drupal.org/project/imagecache_actions.
It is very time consuming and error prone to repeat "click steps" among multiple sandboxes, development and production in order to get your new image styles to appear. In this video, I will show you how to write code that turns your "custom" image style into a "default" image style so that you can use source control to update all of your site environments.
I am assuming you already know how to create image styles in the administrative interface. Familiarity with basic module development is helpful, but if you follow the techniques and patterns I demonstrate, you will successfully export your image styles into a new custom module.
This chapter explains hook_page_alter(), which is another alter hook new to Drupal 7 and to the theme layer. Each page rendered by Drupal is contained within an array where the theme is able to go in and rearrange, delete or duplicate specific page elements.
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This chapter shows some general best practices for keeping your template.php file clean as well as making it easier for designers to work primarily with the template files when possible to avoid them having to make too many changes to template.php. Specifically, some HTML classes are removed from the ninesixtyrobots_comment_form() function in template.php and moved to the comment-form.tpl.php template file, which is specified as an option in the ninesixtyrobots_theme() function. The rendering logic is also removed from the theme function and into a preprocess function so that it can be passed in as a variable to the new template file.
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The ability of having alter hooks within the theme layer starts to blur the line between the logic and presentation, and so there are a few things to be aware of when using hook_form_alter() from the theme layer. The biggest thing to know is that the form rendering process has already gone through the creation and validation preparation process at the module layer, and so you shouldn't be drastically changing the functionality of a form at the theme layer. This form alter hook at the theme layer is primarily for aesthetic clean-up, styling and additional design. This chapter gives some specific examples of things to watch out for.
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There are four alter hooks that are now available to the theme layer in Drupal 7. This chapter walks through two of those hooks, hook_css_alter() and hook_js_alter(). These hooks allow the theme layer to reorder, delete or replace specific CSS or JavaScript files that are being loaded by Drupal core or other contributed modules.
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This lesson goes through the process of creating Theme Settings so that administrators of a theme are able to turn on and off specific features within the the theme, as well as specify other relevant settings.
Note: Twitter has recently shut down their v1 REST API so this lesson's site_slogan adjustment no longer works (it will always return no values because there is no API data found). The core concepts of how to create theme settings are still correct, you just won't be able to see the output from Twitter.
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This chapter goes through the process of adding a specific form id to the theme registry with the hook_theme() function, which allows the creation of a new function that targets a specific form. Specifically in this chapter, comment_form is added to the theme registry so that we can create a ninesixtyrobots_comment_form() function in order to add a column to the comment form so that the name and subject fields are displayed side-by-side.
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Provides an overview of what is covered in the Theming Basics series and gives a preview of what is yet to be covered within the Advanced Theming video.