Question

I would like to add a field / column to the Content Administration Overview page but it appears the easiest theme override to do this has been deprecated with D7.

In D6 I could just override the method:

theme_node_admin_nodes($form)

But this method no longer exists for D7. What’s the equivalent replacement or do I actually need to hook into node_admin_nodes() now and modify the form directly?

Answer 1

You’ll have to hook into the form, the theme element has been completely removed node_admin_nodes() in Drupal 7.

It’s actually node_admin_content() that you’ll need to hook into as node_admin_nodes() is no longer a form function, it just builds up elements that are used by node_admin_content().

Fortunately the elements in node_admin_nodes() and node_filter_form() (the two functions used in node_admin_content() to build up the page) are nicely structured and will be very easy to override.