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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

Chapter 9. Theming Our Blog Detail Page

Having completed the Blog listing page, we now need to focus on the development and theming of our Blog detail page. While not quite as complex as creating a listing page, we will need to have a better understanding of how content types interact with comments. In this chapter, we will take a look at creating a single node.html.twig template that our Blog detail page will use. This template will be based on the Full Content display mode and the introduction of the revamped comment system in Drupal 8. Let's review what tasks we will be accomplishing:

  • We will begin with reviewing our Blog detail page as displayed in our mockup, and identify how specific fields will need to be presented for display.

  • Next, we will create our Blog detail template, which will focus on the default display mode for our Post content type.

  • We will take a more detailed look at how comments work in Drupal 8 as we enable them the comment form, display them, and thread them for a post...