Greetings,

In the past, I've always stuck with firmly established versions of Drupal and contrib themes. However, I have a site I want to update and re-launch and I'd love to use Drupal 6.x. I love the Zen theme and feel it is a must for the site I am re-launching. However, support for 6.x is in its early stages, and I'm wondering how I should proceed. Perhaps someone can offer me a bit of advice.

(If this should have gone in the normal support forum, I apologize.)

Anyway, if I keep the template files in-tact and edit the CSS files primarily, when upgrading to more developed versions of Zen, I shouldn't have too much to worry about, right? I'm guessing that the markup of Zen is pretty firmly established, and the most that would change would be PHP stuff to take advantage of Drupal's improved theming system.

Are these assumptions reasonable? Any thoughts?

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johnalbin
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Title: Future Development Considerations » Drupal 6 support and future development considerations
Priority: Minor » Normal

Those assumptions are reasonable.

I doubt the *.tpl.php files will change at all.

The template*.php files need to be updated because Zen 6 sub-theme's aren't getting any of the $block_classes or $body_classes from the main Zen.

I will probably get a little time this weekend to fix some issues. And (I've said this before) if anybody would like to help update Zen to Drupal 6, I would appreciate it!

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crbassett commented

Thanks for the input. I wish I could do something to help, but my theming expertise is basically this: "take an existing theme...look what it does...adapt it..."

I'll check the CVS and try to test new updates though, if that his helpful.

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Status: Active » Fixed

Made a bunch of progress this weekend. Zen is much closer to a 6.x-1.0-beta1 release.

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.