Hello! It’s been awhile since I’ve written something. I want to share a smattering of examples of adding classes to different elements in a Drupal 9 theme. Would love to hear what classes you’re adding and how. Add a CSS class to body if the user is logged in. Add…

Do you want to add a different class to the site logo depending on if it’s the default logo or custom? Maybe! If so, here’s how. Create a variable in the .theme file. Normally, the site logo is used in the block--system-branding-block.html.twig so that’s where I want a variable available. …

If you are using fields to display content in a View, you can do some of the things in Replacement Patterns as you can do in a theme template. Note: There are likely other ways to do this, including maybe Display Suite or the theme layer. But this is an…

We have an events content type that uses the date range field type. We display our events as a list on a page. We wanted to group the events by year. Here’s how we did it. Datetime Range is a core module and can be enabled in Extend. What you need A content…

Here is how I created a simple custom block type in Drupal 8 to highlight a statistic. I’m going to take it step-by-step, provide all code snippets, and explain what the code means. Steps Write the HTML and CSS for the block design Create a custom block type and fields …

Drupal 8 Views allow you to group Views rows by Taxonomy terms (as an example). This tutorial is about how to control the HTML and styling of those groups and their headings. No coding needed. I’m going to use a clean D8 site with the Bartik theme. I have a…

Overview of Drupal 8 theming aimed towards beginners or anyone who wants a better idea of what their themers and front-end developer teammates are up to. This is the text version of a presentation I did at Kansas City’s Virtual Flyover Camp 2020. What you’ll need Beginner understanding of Drupal, like that Blocks…

Drupal 8 comes with a few ways to group fields on a form via the Manage Form Display tab of content types. Thought I’d just go over them. Each one functions a little differently and some have important semantic purposes. Examples are from the Seven admin theme. Fieldset Tabs (and…

Right now in Drupal 8, field descriptions appear below the input. But D8 has description_display built into the backend that we can access with preprocess functions. So instead of this where the instructions come after the field…