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Learning Drupal 8

By : Nick Abbott
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Learning Drupal 8

By: Nick Abbott

Overview of this book

Drupal 8 sets a new standard for ease of use, while offering countless new ways to tailor and deploy your content to the Web. Drupal 8 allows user to easily customize data structures, listings, and pages, and take advantage of new capabilities for displaying data on mobile devices, building APIs, and adapting to multilingual needs. The book takes you step by step through building a Drupal 8 website. Start with the basics, such as setting up a local “stack” development environment and installing your first Drupal 8 site, then move on to image and media handling, and extending Drupal modules. Push your knowledge by getting to grips with the modular nature of Drupal, and learning to extend it by adding new functionalities to create your new modules. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop and manage a modern and responsive website using Drupal.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Drupal 8
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

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If you want to create a set of structured content rather than unrelated single pages, you can enable the Book module. This is ideal when creating a user guide where each page links to the next and content may be formed into chapters.

Enable the Book module now.

When you enable the Book module, a new content type Book page becomes available on the Add content screen.

As an example of how to use this module, let's digress a little from the My Drupal agency site build for a moment, and look at how this chapter could be created as a Drupal book.

To start with, we will create a new Book page called Learning Drupal 8. From the Add content screen, click on Book page.

On the right-hand side, there is a new expandable section, BOOK OUTLINE.

When you expand this item, you can add a new page to a specific place in the book structure. As this is the first book page we are creating, we can select Create a new book, fill in the Title field with Learning Drupal 8, and then Save and publish the page as normal...