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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 (25 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Customer Feedback
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Preface

Chapter 2. Site Configuration

Site configuration is probably one of the most important tasks any developer will need to perform when first creating a Drupal project. Establishing a baseline configuration for Drupal projects ensures that, as we begin to further develop our website, we have accounted for how users will be able to upload files, how dates will be displayed, and even how content will be cached.

However, sometimes site configuration can be overlooked as a few items get configured for us during the installation process; for example, Basic site settings such as the Site name, email address, and Regional settings. Depending on the size of your Drupal project, you may think why bother with any additional site configuration?

In this chapter, we will be exploring Drupal 8 from an administrator or site builder's point of view and explain why it is important to configure your site properly. There have been a few changes in how basic site configuration is performed, where some items have...