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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

Creating a Post Full template


While we know what our new Twig template should be named, we should also consider just how similar the Blog detail page is to each Post displayed on our Blog listing page. In fact, the only real differences are that our Blog detail displays the full content of our Post along with the Comments.

So instead of creating a brand new template, we can begin by duplicating the node--post--listing.html.twig template located in our themes/octo/templates folder and rename it node--post--full.html.twig.

Make sure to clear Drupal's cache and refresh the Blog detail page.

At first glance, we would think that most of our theming is completed for us. However, we actually have some components that need to be removed, such as the read more link and the teaser field. While some of these fields may not be displayed because they are being controlled from the Manager display admin, it is still good practice to remove these fields from our template.

Altering fields

We can begin by removing...