My Drupal Blog

A couple of days ago I was contacted by a reader asking if I could provide them with links to some other sites like My Drupal Blog. Well, whilst I subscribe to a couple of Drupal related blogs I usually just keep an eye on Planet Drupal for all the latest goings-on.

However, there is also a lot of great theming stuff to be had on drupal.org itself, although sometimes trying to find that stuff can be a little unwieldy.

So, the following is an attempt to bring together a list of links to Drupal theming resources specifically on drupal.org. There are obviously thousands of forum pages relating to specific theming issues, so this list is meant as a general overview of the more major Drupal theming pages on drupal.org. If you have any other suggestions be sure to add them in the comments, and I'll append the list as necessary.

Drupal.org (general)

• Theme guide (Drupal 6)
• Theme guide (Drupal 5 and earlier)
• Main themes page
• PHPTemplate theme engine
• Theme snippets
• Theme development forum
• All the new Drupal theme releases
• RSS feed of all the new Drupal theme releases
• Theme and modules used on drupal.org
• Videos and slides (master list)
• Theming videos
• Drupal API
• Drupal API themable functions / theme implementations
• Theming your views
• Mailing list main page
• Themes mailing list
• IRC overview
• #drupal-themes - IRC channel for theme support (see the IRC overview link above for more details)

Drupal.org (groups)

• Theme development
• Converting themes to Drupal
• Themer pack working group
• Designers and information architects
• Drupal dojo
• Drupal.org redesign plan for the Drupal association

I will soon (hopefully within the next 2-4 weeks) be releasing Kupo. This will be my first publicly available Drupal theme via drupal.org.

I know that testing of Drupal themes and modules is generally an iterative process which happens once the theme or module is available for download, but thought that it made sense to catch any blatantly obvious problems before an initial release.

So, please feel free to click around the new theme and let me know what you think and/or find.

Seeing as this is the first proper post on my Drupal blog I thought it only seemed right to start with a discussion about, arguably, the most important theme of them all - drupal.org.

Over the past six years Drupal has grown to become a sizeable player in the Open Source CMS world, and as the product has grown so has the site. The release of Drupal 5 saw the implementation of Garland as Drupal's new default theme, and very nice it is too. But the drupal.org theme remains, and, whilst it's not bad, there's no denying that it is starting to look a little jaded. So, is it now time for drupal.org to get a new theme?