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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

Common settings


Each theme can provide its own settings, but all themes have a common configuration. Click on the Settings link next to the Bartik theme to open the available configuration.

For now, skip over (collapse) the Color scheme option (we'll come to that later).

Toggle display

Inside the TOGGLE DISPLAY menu, you will see a list of checkboxes as follows:

Item

Description

1

If we are opting to show the author information with posted content, if the author has an attached picture, then display it as a small thumbnail icon.

2

If we are opting to show author information with posted comments and the comment author has an attached picture, then display it as a small thumbnail icon.

3

User verification status in comments.

4

Use a shortcut icon also known as the favicon.ico. Defaults to the drop.

By default, if the theme you have chosen to use includes its own logo.svg (Scalable Vector Graphic) file then that will be used as the logo.

The default logo is a semi-transparent version...