Published: June 2, 2021
Create a Theme Settings Page for a Drupal Theme
Theme settings are simple and powerful, here's me figuring out how to create one.
Creating theme settings have so many uses. For example, you might have a sub-theme that wants to set a theme setting for the main/accent colour, and then use CSS variables to pull that into your theme - simple. Or, in my case, I want to create a base theme that is styled with CSS and JS, but allow sub-themes to switch off those libraries and just use the HTML from our templates.
Here's how:
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