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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

Implementing our Before Content region


The fourth item we will need to address is replacing the static content in our Before Content region. Referring back to the mockup, we have two blocks of content that will require us to follow these steps to implement.

  1. First, we will create the Our Services block and Our Features block and assign it to the Before Content region.

  2. Finally, we will refactor the markup and print the Before Content region using Twig variables.

Creating our Services block

Creating blocks of content is fairly simple and we should already be comfortable with the process.

We will start by navigating to the Block layout page at /admin/structure/block and following these steps:

  1. Click on the Place block button in the Before Content region.

  2. Click on the Add custom block button.

  3. Enter a Block description of our services.

  4. Select HTML No Editor from the Text format dropdown.

  5. Add the markup located in the Chatper06/start/content/OurServices.txt file to the Body field.

  6. Click on the Save button...