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Mastering Drupal 8

By : Sean Montague, Chaz Chumley, William Hurley
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Mastering Drupal 8

By: Sean Montague, Chaz Chumley, William Hurley

Overview of this book

Drupal is an open source content management system trusted by governments and organizations around the globe to run their websites. It brings with it extensive content authoring tools, reliable performance, and a proven track record of security. The community of more than 1,000,000 developers, designers, editors, and others have developed and maintained a wealth of modules, themes, and other add-ons to help you build a dynamic web experience. Drupal 8 is the latest release of the Drupal built on the Symfony2 framework. This is the largest change to the Drupal project in its history. The entire API of Drupal has been rebuilt using Symfony and everything from the administrative UI to themes to custom module development has been affected. This book will cover everything you need to plan and build a complete website using Drupal 8. It will provide a clear and concise walkthrough of the more than 200 new features and improvements introduced in Drupal core. In this book, you will learn advanced site building techniques, create and modify themes using Twig, create custom modules using the new Drupal API, explore the new REST and Multilingual functionality, import, and export Configuration, and learn how to migrate from earlier versions of Drupal.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Installing and configuring languages

After installing the appropriate modules, the next step is to enable the languages you wish to have on the site. Select Configuration and then Languages from the menu bar or navigate to /admin/config/regional/language.

This page shows the currently installed languages, which one is currently set as the default, and how many interface strings have been translated for that language:

Language list

To add another language to the site, click on the button labeled Add language and select the language from the dropdown.

Add language page

There are 93 languages directly available from the list. In addition to those, you can select Custom language... from the list and enter a W3C language tag, the name of the language, and whether text is displayed left-to-right or right-to-left.

Add custom language