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Choosing the right modern Drupal Bootstrap base theme

Published May 7, 2025
A high-level comparison of some of the most-widely used Bootstrap framework-focused base themes, including feedback from some of their maintainers. With more than 150 Bootstrap compatible Drupal 10 contributed themes on Drupal.org, selecting the best Bootstrap-powered base theme for you, your development team, and your project can sometimes come down to a superficial popularity contest. The lack of a clear comparison between the most widely-used and/or most well-known options is frustrating. Rather than attempting the futile task of comparing all 150+ themes, based on my experience and conversations, I have selected the six (of what I consider to be) leading

Drupal 7 Check for Available Updates Solution

Published February 23, 2014

On a Drupal 7 website's "Available updates" page (admin/reports/updates/update), if and when you request that Drupal manually check for updates (of modules and themes), it can sometimes fail to get available update data for most or all of the projects, regardless of how many times you retry the process. The problem is caused by errant records in the cache_update table in the Drupal database, which apparently are not removed by the update request.

When Drupal's Available Updates List and Update Pages Disagree

Published September 28, 2011

Drupal website developers and administrators benefit from its built-in feature to periodically check if any of the enabled modules and themes are out of date. Drupal performs this check daily or weekly, when its cron job is run, automatically. If there are any modules or themes in need of an update, then on the admin area's modules or themes "List" page, you will see the notification:

Skinr won't work if your theme is disabled

Published September 23, 2010

Every so often, when migrating Drupal sites to other computers, I notice that themes become disabled. Whatever the cause, disabled themes cause bunches of problems, and my big problem today happens to be with Skinr.

If you are trying to edit settings in Skinr, for example settings on a block, Skinr only shows you those options based on the currently enabled themes.

To get the Skinr block settings fieldset back, visit your admin/build/themes page and make sure at least one theme (like your default theme) is enabled.

Taking over an un-maintained or abaondoned Project on Drupal.org

Published February 3, 2010

Ever downloaded a module and noticed several obvious bugs? Often, you can look in the issue queue for a module and find fixes, code patches, and help with these problems. For certain modules, the maintainer of the code may not respond - he or she may no longer be developing with Drupal, may have changed his or her email address, or any number of other factors.

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