reorganize "updating your themes" page

David_Rothstein - May 5, 2008 - 16:52
Project:Documentation
Component:Customization and Theming Guide
Category:bug report
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:active
Description

I just created a new page for "Converting 6.x themes to 7.x":
http://drupal.org/node/254940

By default, this is showing up out of order in the list of child pages at http://drupal.org/update/theme. I don't have access to be able to change the weight of book pages, so could someone with admin access please change it? Thanks!

Also, I'm not entirely sure that's even the right place for the "Converting 6.x themes to 7.x" page to live... since it's within a book called "Theme developer's guide (v5 and earlier)" (?). However, I wasn't sure of any better place to put it, and it seemed best to have it with all the other theme updating guides for now.

#1

David_Rothstein - May 5, 2008 - 16:52
Category:task» bug report

#2

add1sun - May 5, 2008 - 16:59

I've floated it to the top of the list. I'm leaving this open because you are right that this section should not live in a version-specific book but we currently don't have a "generic" theme book. We need to come up with a better solution but I don't have any obvious ideas right now.

#3

sepeck - May 5, 2008 - 17:29

wait, wasn't this traditionally in the developers handbook?

#4

David_Rothstein - May 6, 2008 - 05:55

Thanks! Hm, here is one possible idea for how to reorganize the theming handbook. Would this work?

  • At http://drupal.org/handbooks, change the link at the end of the Theming Guides section to "Get started theming for Drupal here"... which would correspond nicely to the "get started" link in the Developing for Drupal section right below it.
  • This link could go to a page that had one short paragraph that describes the concept of theming, and then the following child pages:
  • This seems to me like the best location for the "Updating your themes" page. However, it's certainly a valuable resource for module developers too... so maybe http://drupal.org/update/modules could have a link at the top to the "Updating your themes" page, and then the module update pages for individual Drupal versions (e.g. 6.x to 7.x) could have a link to the theme update page for the same version?

Just throwing some ideas out there... I'd be willing to work on (some of) this if it sounds like a good plan.

#5

add1sun - May 6, 2008 - 20:17

Why would it be in the Dev handbook when *everything* else specific to theming is in the Theming handbook(s)? This is simply a problem created by splitting the previously single theme handbook into two versioned ones.

 
 

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