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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

Basic site settings


Changes to the Site name, Email address, default front page, and error pages can all be configured under the Basic site settings of Drupal. This section of Drupal can often be overlooked since both the Site name and Email address fields are configured for us during installation. However, the Basic site settings control more than just these two fields, and it is important to know where they are located and how to modify these values using all the tools made available to us.

We can navigate to the Basic site settings by directly entering the URL of /admin/config/system/site-information, or by using the Admin toolbar and clicking on Manage | Configuration | Basic site settings:

The Basic site settings for Drupal contain three subsections:

  • SITE DETAILS
  • FRONT PAGE
  • ERROR PAGES

SITE DETAILS

The SITE DETAILS section contains the Site name, Slogan, and Email address fields. Depending on how an installation is completed, there will always be values for both Site name and Email address...