It was only as I started writing up this blog post to help anyone else that might be stymied by this issue, that I noticed the "Force using fields" already existed in Drupal 7. So maybe I am the only person who stumbled across this wacky variant that requires an extra module.
But I decided to share this post, just in case.
Posted February 13, 2016 in Drupal 8
Drupal, much like PHP itself, is rife with the internal inconsistencies that come from people solving similar problems in slightly different ways. These inconsistencies aren't always at the level of a "bug" or a "regression", but sometimes you wish you could change it. This is one of those times.
Posted February 13, 2016 in Drupal 8, coding walkthrough
In addition to the code that I used to accomplish theme switching based on active menu, I also describe the steps I took to investigate options, and what lead me to the solution that I built.
Posted February 12, 2016 in Drupal 8, coding walkthrough
