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Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

By : Chaz Chumley
Book Image

Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

By: Chaz Chumley

Overview of this book

Drupal 8 is an open source content management system and powerful framework that helps deliver great websites to individuals and organizations, including non-profits, commercial, and government around the globe. This new release has been built on top of object-oriented PHP and includes more than a handful of improvements such as a better user experience, cleaner HTML5 markup, a new templating engine called Twig, multilingual capabilities, new configuration management, and effortless content authoring. Drupal 8 will quickly become the new standard for deploying content to both the web and mobile applications. However, with so many new changes, it can quickly become overwhelming knowing where to start and how to quickly. Starting from the bottom up, we will install, set up, and configure Drupal 8. We’ll navigate the Admin interface so you can learn how to work with core themes and create new custom block layouts. Walk through a real-world project to create a Twig theme from concept to completion while adopting best practices to implement CSS frameworks and JavaScript libraries. We will see just how quick and easy it is to create beautiful, responsive Drupal 8 websites while avoiding the common mistakes that many front-end developers make.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Drupal 8 Theming with Twig
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing custom blocks


If we want to edit the block content of a custom block, we will not find it by selecting the Configure block button in its context menu or by clicking on the Configure button next to the block from the Block layout page. Custom blocks can only be configured from the custom block library located at /admin/structure/block/block-content or by clicking on the Custom block library tab from the Block layout admin.

Exploring the custom block library

The Custom block library tab displays any custom blocks that have been created. It is from here that we can Edit any custom block:

Clicking on the Edit button will bring up the Edit custom block page where any content, including the Block description, Body, or additional fields, can be changed.

The Custom block library consists of both the Blocks tab, which displays all custom blocks, and the Types tab, which displays the various block types that have been created. A block type is similar to a content type and contains a lot of the...