The process of converting Drupal 6 themes to Drupal 7 involves modifying your theme to take advantage of all of the new features and modifying the syntax of your method calls to utilize the new method syntax. Any calls to functionality that has been removed will also need to be revised. You can find a complete list of changes that need to be made at: http://drupal.org/update/theme/6/7.
You can use the following basic procedure for updating your theme to Drupal 7:
Update your
.info
file to include any additional scripts and CSS files that are needed by your site and make sure to includestyle.css
andscript.js
if you use them.Modify the structure of your
page.tpl.php
page to remove the information contained inhtml.tpl.php
.Modify the rendering of each region to use
region.tpl.php
and to load content from the$page
variable.Replace removed special content types with blocks as needed.
Change variable names that have been modified including the
main_menu
and...