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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

Basic pages


In this chapter, we will focus on just the core content types: Article and Basic page.

We'll discuss step by step how to create content of these types and how to adjust their settings.

Let's imagine for argument's sake that you want create the following pages:

  • Home

  • Our Services

  • Our Clients

  • Contact us

  • About us

  • News

  • Blog

With this in mind, let's go about creating these pages and linking them into the Main Navigation menu.

Right now, you are going to see how to create basic 'container' pages that come with nothing more than a single rich text area in which you can add your content. Later, in Chapter 6, Structure, you will see how you can include blocks within these pages too. For example, the news page should list out all of the news items.

We already have a home page link so let's start with the Our services page.

Creating a new page

To create a new Basic page, navigate to Shortcuts | Add content | Basic page.

On the left-hand side, we have the main area, which is where you get to populate the...