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

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 changes 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 changes 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.

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License

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