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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

Setting the admin theme


The theme you use when editing your site is not necessarily the same as the one users see when they are browsing your site. Drupal 8 includes a specially designed admin theme.

Go back to the Appearance page:

At the bottom of the appearance page is a panel allowing you to specify the Administration theme:

The checkbox underneath the theme selection allows you to specify which themes (the frontend theme or the admin theme) are used when the content is being edited.

As a rule, using the administration theme will give you a better editing experience.