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Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

By : Chaz Chumley
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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

Creating a Post Listing view


So now that we have a new listing display for our post content type, you may be asking how do we actually use it? Just like any content that we want to aggregate, we will start with creating a Drupal view. But unlike previous views that we created, which used fields, we will be creating a view that uses the Content Types display mode.

To get started, we will need to navigate to /admin/structure/views and click on the Add new view button. From the Views admin screen, we will add the following information:

  • VIEW BASIC INFORMATION:

    1. View name: Post Listing.

    2. Check the Description box.

    3. Description: A listing of all Posts.

  • VIEW SETTINGS: Show: Content of type: Post sorted by: Newest first

  • BLOCK SETTINGS:

    1. Check the Create a block.

    2. Block title: Post Listing.

  • BLOCK DISPLAY SETTINGS:

    1. Display format: Unformatted list of: teasers.

    2. Items per block: 3.

    3. Click on the Save and edit button.

All of these steps are similar to the Team Member view we created in Chapter 7, Theming Our Interior...