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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

Configuring Account settings


Account configuration in Drupal 8 consists of managing various settings associated with a user, that is, anything from enabling contact settings, specifying which role will be used for administrative purposes, how a user can register for a new account, to even the ability to add additional fields to the user profile.

To see how this can be accomplished, we can begin by navigating to the Account settings page located at /admin/config/people/accounts or using the Admin toolbar and clicking on the Manage | Configuration | Account settings.

The Account settings page is arranged into various groups:

  • CONTACT SETTINGS: Allows us to enable and disable personal contact form
  • ANONYMOUS USERS: Allows us to specify which role will be used for anonymous users
  • ADMINISTRATOR ROLE: Allows us to select a role that will be considered as the administrator so that permissions can be automatically assigned to it
  • REGISTRATION AND CANCELLATION: Controls the ability to allow users to register...