---
title: "John Albin Wilkins on Drupal 7 Theming"
url: "/podcasts/drupal-voices/john-albin-wilkins-on-drupal-7-theming"
type: episode
date: 2010-09-01
updated: 2014-04-09
---

# John Albin Wilkins on Drupal 7 Theming

#  John Albin Wilkins on Drupal 7 Theming 

  

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[John Albin Wilkins](https://john.albin.net/blog/drupal) (aka [JohnAlbin](http://drupal.org/user/32095)) talks about some of the new extensions to the theming system that are new in Drupal 7 including [render](http://api.drupal.org/api/function/render/7) elements, [hook\_page\_alter(](http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_page_alter/7)), [show](http://api.drupal.org/api/function/show/7), [hide,](http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hide/7) [theme\_get\_suggestions(),](http://api.drupal.org/api/function/theme_get_suggestions/7) and improvements to [theme\_links()](http://api.drupal.org/api/function/theme_links/7). He also talks about the theme administration page overhaul, how it's now a lot easier to create "mega-menus" dropdown panels when hovering over the primary navigation, as well as another [presentation that Palantir gave on previewing Drupal 7](http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/drupal-7-here-we-come).

For more detailed information on what's new in Drupal 7 for themers, then be sure to check out John's DrupalCon presentation titled ["Design and Theming: What's new in Drupal 7?"](http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/design-and-theming-whats-new-drupal-7)