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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

Previewing our Blog detail page


Navigate to one of the Blog detail pages by clicking on the Post title from the main blog page or simply entering /blog/post-one in the browser:

We are in luck when it comes to our sidebar elements, as they are already positioned and themed the way they appear in the mockup. However, upon closer review we can see that we are missing some elements on our Blog detail page, or they are not themed the we may have expected. These issues may include:

  • Post date

  • Post title

  • Post tags properly themed

  • Comment thread

  • Comment form

The challenge for us is to think how Drupal outputs each of these sections and address them individually as we build our Twig templates. Since we have Twig debugging enabled, we can determine that we should start with creating a new node--post--full.html.twig template.