Advanced Drupal Theming

Course Description

This course will give you a deep understanding of advanced Drupal theming concepts. You'll learn how to use advanced functions in Twig, customize and extend a Drupal theme, analyze and resolve common theming issues, work with CSS and JavaScript for Drupal themes, and much more.

This course is the more advanced version of our Drupal Theming course, which teaches you how to create simple themes from scratch, add CSS for styling, and other Drupal theming basics. To get the most out of this course, it is recommended that you take that course or have relevant experience.

You should have experience in:

• Creating a library and loaded in CSS and JavaScript
• Turning on Drupal's theme debugger to inspect templates
• Creating your own page, block, node, and field templates
• Comfort with the command line and some tools like Composer and SASS are a big plus!

Learning Objectives  

You'll come away from the course with knowledge of: 

• Loading external fonts from sites like Google Fonts
• Creating your own CSS/JS library and loading it only when needed
• Generating template suggestions when the defaults aren't enough
• Create a theme function file
• Using more advanced functions in Twig
• Load in external libraries and projects with Composer 
• Setting up your project's file structure to compile CSS using SASS and Bootstrap 4