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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

Managing taxonomy


In Chapter 3, Basic Concepts, we briefly discussed Drupal's Taxonomy feature.

In Chapter 4, Getting Started with the UI, you created Article nodes tagged with the terms: tag1, tag2, tag3, and tag4, and in Chapter 5, Basic Content, you created more Article nodes tagged with the terms pet and dog.

The Tags vocabulary is a tag-based vocabulary, which means that content editors can make up as many terms (words or phrases) as they like and will be prompted to re-use any existing terms as they type. Tag-based vocabularies are great when you need your content-editing team to use their expert subject knowledge to build up a collection of terms, but the downside of them is that the collections can fill up with duplication owing to misspellings.

Note

Taxonomy vocabularies based on a fixed set of terms are often more useful. What we will do next is set up a fixed vocabulary to help us to categorize all the content (pages, services, clients, and news) across the site.

Creating a new Taxonomy...