How does it work?

Course duration: 3 weeks

Study level: intermediate

Study effort: an average 2hrs a day for 15 days

• Build a theme start to finish: practice on a private Drupal sandbox site only you can access
• All learning materials are online, divided into short chapters, each with activities and assessment questions. You'll have access to the learning materials forever
• Connect with the group in twice-weekly video calls, or in our slack-like chat channels

Is this course right for you?

• You have built at least one Drupal site and you're familiar with nodes, blocks, menus, users, roles, and permissions
• You're familiar with downloading, installing, and configuring contributed Drupal themes
• You're familiar with basic PHP syntax and namespaces
• You want to know how to get started with Drupal theme development

Important note: This course does not cover front-end framework and asset build systems such as nodejs, npm, yarn, gulp, react, angular, vue, or sass.

To learn how such tools and frameworks can be integrated into a Drupal theme, look out for Advanced Drupal 8/9 Theme Development, coming later this year.

What you'll get out of it

You will build a theme start to finish and practice on a private Drupal sandbox site only you can access. You will explore in the process:

Week 1

• Theming basics
• Asset Libraries

Week 2

• Twig template syntax
• How to use and override Twig templates

Week 3

• Drupal and Twig
• Preprocess hooks