Group items tagged

dvessel wrote in the sidebar: Actually, the "Clearing the theme cache" should be in this main page. The cache is always a hinderance for those that don't know how it behaves. It should be very visible. --- me - absolutely - I have the menu item from Devel module on every site's custom nav that shows up for any user role=admin, this (or an equivalently easy method) should be part of any "introduction to customizing a theme". Not with the background details about the registry etc, perhaps a "here's why" link to that information.

dvessel - I've proposed a convention for our using Diigo's many different types of "spoor" - Discussion threads in sticky notes, text-specific comments in highlights, as these show on the page without having to browse with the sidebar open. Bookmarks for tagging (because that's the only way to get tags; currently just tagging for D5/6 applicability), don't use Page Comments at all. What do you think of this idea?

The content here should allow me to at least have a chance of understanding the node that follows, or maybe intervening nodes need to be inserted, huge jump from this to the coding stuff that follows.

See Jeff Eaton's Template of Doom article http://www.lullabot.com/articles/overriding-theme-functions-in-modules

"Changing the labels and the ordering of fields in content types created with the Content Creation Kit. For more information, see the CCK documentation." I would say that this is part of theming, maybe using color module too, but they're not to be included because they are topics specific to contrib-modules, which belong with the module's docs. We can of course link to them when appropriate, and I think CCK is so widely used these kinds of issues need to be at least mentioned as part of template.php/page/node template-specific pages. Also re Views, a lot of what people use Views for can be done through theming, so again, links when appropriate, enough information to inform them in making the choice.

I've updated this page as per Hans' comments although that bit has now been moved to the About this Guide child page. (Sorry)