This screencast covers the following topics:

• Creating user flags
• Using user flags in Views to limit the nodes displayed
• Using a double Views relationship to access the flagging user
• Using contextual filters on the flagging user

In this video Michelle takes a look at our example site, My Town Sports, from a member's perspective. We can review a list of groups, subscribe and unsubscribe, and create content for a group we belong to.

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Organic Groups

Once you have your site up and running it is very important to keep your site up to date and secure. Both Drupal core and contributed projects continue to improve the software with bug fixes and security updates. In this chapter we look at using the core Update Manager, and explain how to read the various reports about our site's status. Before we walk through the process up updating a contributed module, as well as our version of Drupal core, we also make sure we do a backup.

So, we now have all of our CSS and HTML in our sub-theme. In this lesson, we've moved over the remaining files that our theme will need, like the images folder, and our node template files. The last step to finish this theme up, is to modify our CSS to take advantage of the responsive framework we already have in place. To do that we'll:

• Review the theme files
• Look at our default CSS file
• See the responsive changes

We're in the home stretch with our theme, so let's make our CSS responsive and wrap things up.

You can download the final Ninesixty Robots Omega theme as a regular project from Drupal.org.

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You can download the final Ninesixty Robots Omega theme as a regular project from Drupal.org.

In this lesson we have fast-forwarded some by completing the conversion of our old page.tpl.php into the new Omage theme. We'll take a look at the work we've done to get to this point, and then deal with what looks like could be a tricky HTML wrapper problem by creating a new zone for our theme, and configuring it to meet our needs. So, we'll:

• Review templates and variables
• Add a new zone to our theme
• Configure our regions with the new zone

This is where we can really see how to blend the usefulness of code and configuration in Omega, to accomplish our task in a very simple way.

Additional resources

You can download the final Ninesixty Robots Omega theme as a regular project from Drupal.org.

We have a custom template file that has the HTML that we want, but not all of variables are coming through yet, and instead we are getting "Undefined variable" errors. In this lesson we're going to take care of that, as well as making sure our custom variables from the original 960 Robots get moved over as well. Omega has its own best practices around adding preprocess and process functions to a sub-theme, so we'll walk through what Omega expects, and how to use the files and examples that Omega is providing for us. So we're going to:

• Look at the Omega best practices
• Create a process include file
• Add our region variables
• Add our custom variable from 960 Robots

Additional resources

You can download the final Ninesixty Robots Omega theme as a regular project from Drupal.org.

For this lesson we get to finally start to convert our 90 Robots theme into our Omega sub-theme. We're going to take a look at what we have the original 960 Robots files, and start to move that into our 960 Robots Omega theme. To start things off we will:

• Review theme files
• Move main.css into the global.css file
• Begin converting the page.tpl.php
• Create a custom region template

Here is where the rubber meets the road for making our sub-theme look the way we want it to, so let's dive in.

Additional resources

You can download the final Ninesixty Robots Omega theme as a regular project from Drupal.org.

The combination of Omega, Alpha and our new 960 robots base theme means that there are a pile ton of CSS files included in our pages now. These CSS files provide the foundation for some of the coolest features in Omega like the mobile first approach and the ability to provide a responsive design. Lets take a look at

• The various CSS files included by alpha, Omega, and our subtheme and how they work together
• Do a quick expirement to demonstrate the various CSS files associated with Omega's media queries
• Talk abou the HTML output by the Omega theme and how it's structured.

So put on your goggles beacuse we're about dive deep into the land of responsive CSS.

Additional resources

You can download the final Ninesixty Robots Omega theme as a regular project from Drupal.org.

In this lesson we will be covering how take all the settings we have made for our 960 robots subtheme and export it into code. We will cover multiple ways of doing this and why this is a good practice to get into when working with different environements and/or other team members. We also cover adding features to the .info file from our exisiting theme into our new Omega sub-theme. So basically, this lesson will cover

• Exporting your theme
• Why export?
• 3 Different methods of export
• More theme conversion

Once the lesson is complete you will become an exporting guru and impress your friends at just about any gathering with your Omega Exporting amesomeness.

Additional resources

You can download the final Ninesixty Robots Omega theme as a regular project from Drupal.org.

This video shows how to target a specific form with the hook_form_FORM_ID_alter and creating a customized validation function for a form.

Note: There is a typo in this video. (The code is correct in the downloadable example file attached to the previous video.)

In the demo_validate_password() function, the following line shown in the video if (in_array($form['values']['pass'], $badpasswords)) { should be if (in_array($form_state['values']['pass'], $badpasswords)) {.

In this lesson we cover the concepts behind getting media (images) into your site. We describe the two common methods as inline or image field and the advantages/disadvantages of both.

Additional resources

• WYSIWYG

Besides working with sections, zones, regions, and responzive settings, Omega provides lots of other features that make using it a good choice for your theme. Omega also offers:

• Ability to enable/disable script libraries
• Ability to enable/disable theme style sheets
• Ability to enable/disable core/contrib stylesheets
• Typical theme settings

Getting to know these settings certianly helps set the look and fell as well as the capabilties of your theme. With the ability to do things like adding the Equal heights library and enabling it across your zones is just a handy feature and it's free with Omega.

In this lesson we're going to get started with Omega by getting the base theme and creating our new sub-theme. We're going to be doing the following tasks:

• Enable Omega and Omega Tools
• Use Omega Tools to create our sub-theme
• Enable the new theme
• Review the files of the new theme

Omega offers a simple, yet nice set, of debugging tools that assist you when it comes to laying your site out in a 960 grid. Grid layous consist of columns that your content can span accross and part of these debuggung tools is the ability to turn on and off a visual indication of the particular column layout you are using. Omega also gives you the ability to toggle on and off a visual indication of all the regions availabile in your theme. Inside the theme settings you also have the ability to turn these features on or off all together or by role. So in this lesson we will cover:

• Omega debugging tools
• Grid and region visual indicators
• Omega debugging settings

We will also show you how these tools can cause some frustration when it comes to testing the layout of your site espcially in areas that don't have content yet available.

Before we can really dive in to learning Omega we need to do a couple of basic setup tasks. Mostly, we need a Drupal 7 site that has some content for us to look at while we are theming. In this lesson we're going to:

• Generate some content with devel generate module
• Install the 960 Robots theme from drupal.org
• Place some blocks in to the regions provided by the 960 Robots theme and talk a bit about what it gives us so that we can begin to understand how we might convert it to an Omega sub-theme

Under the Downloads tab, there is a copy of the final database and the files directory for this Demo site.

Additional resources

• 960 Robots theme
• Devel module

In this lesson we're going to take a look at the Omega theme, cover some basic terminology around it, and discuss the advantages and challenges of using it. Specifically this lesson will cover:

• Omega features
• Helper modules
• Where to find documentation
• Omega terminology

Additional resources

• Omega theme
• Omega Tools module
• Delta module
• Omega Handbook

Drupal site builders have long wanted to rearrange the display of each piece of content. The page manager module provides us with a default node view context we can use to accomplish just this. In this lesson you will learn how to break an article into two columns.