Drupal 7 Compatible

A base theme that restores Drupal-7-style makrup.

This theme makes it possible to run a Drupal 7 theme on a Backdrop website
without needing to switch all the CSS selectors from IDs to classes.

Some changes may still be necessary, but this should make the task of getting a
Drupal 7 theme to work on Backdrop site much easier.

Specific changes are noted below.

Page template changes:

• Add back unique classes for each page (page--node-1234)
• Add back legacy front and not-front classes.

Node template changes:

• Restore the legacy node ID as the css ID.
• Restore the legacy node-teaser class.
• Add more template suggestions based on view mode.
• Convert classes back to a string.
• Convert attributes back to a string.
• Convert content_attributes back to a string.

Block template changes:

• Restore legacy block-title class.
• Restore legacy block ID.
• Add the navigation ID to the main menu block in the header (if it is
  configured to dispay the top menu only).
• Convert classes back to a string.
• Convert attributes back to a string.
• Convert title_attributes back to a string.
• Convert content_attributes back to a string.

Field template changes:

• Convert classes back to a string.
• Convert attributes back to a string.
• Convert title_attributes back to a string.
• Convert content_attributes back to a string.

Menu markup changes:

• added the ID main-menu-links to the UL tag for the main menu.

Installation

• Install this theme using the official Backdrop CMS instructions at
  https://docs.backdropcms.org/documentation/skin-with-themes.

• Add your Drupal 7 theme to your Backdrop site.

• Make the following cahnges to the info file of your Drupal 7 theme:

  1. add base theme = d7compatible
  2. add backdrop = 1.x
  3. add type = theme

• Make the following cahnges to the templates of your Drupal 7 theme:

  1. Remove your old page.tpl.php file
     (or rename it to layout--mytheme.tpl.php -- you will need it later to
     create a Layout Template)

Issues

Bugs and Feature Requests should be reported in the Issue Queue:
https://github.com/backdrop-contrib/d7compatible/issues.

Current Maintainers

• Jen Lampton
• Seeking additional maintainers

Credits

• Originally written for Backdrop CMS by Jen Lampton.
• Sponsored by Strategic Content.
• Sponsored by David Bollier.

License

This project is GPL v2 software.
See the LICENSE.txt file in this directory for complete text.