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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

Regional and language


Drupal 8 is capable of supporting sites in multiple languages. The details of the translation mechanism are discussed later. The regional and language settings allow you to set some defaults for the target market of your site.

Regional settings

Go to Configuration | Regional and language | Regional settings (admin/config/regional/settings).

Locale

From here you can set the Default country and First day of the week. These will have been set based on your choices during the install process, but you can change them now if they are incorrect.

Time zones

The default time zone for the site will also have been set based on the country you selected during the install process. You can change this now, but also you can decide whether you want to allow visitors to your site to specify their own time zone.

If you allow visitors to determine their own time zone, time-sensitive data will be presented to that user in their own localized time. This would affect, for example, the posting times...