The Next Step

I’ve been asked to investigate Drupal as a possible CMS offering to diversify BigBad’s portfolio of CMS offerings. I thought, while I’m at it, I can share some tips and tricks I discover along the way. One of the first problems I ran into when I started making my custom Drupal theme was that the editing interfaces looked really bad in it. Like, unusable bad. Things like deleting nodes or viewing their outlines, editing users, or even logging in were difficult or impossible. So I set out to try to find a way to make all admin and editor interfaces use the administration theme, and found my solution in the Administration Theme module. This module adds more options to your Site Configuration > Administration Theme that let you specify that batch processing and Devel pages should show in the admin theme, and also gives you free license to enter Drupal paths for any other pages you want to use the admin theme, complete with a wildcard character.

Here’s what I put in my Custom Pages:

node/*/delete
node/*/outline
user/*/edit
user
users/*

I’ll probably end up with more entries in there as I run into more snags, but this seems to be working pretty well for me so far.