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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)

Exploring Content types


In most cases, our first glimpse of content types comes from the two default Content types that Drupal configures as part of the standard install: Article and Basic page.

We can navigate to Content types by directly entering /admin/structure/types or by using the Administration toolbar and clicking on Manage | Structure | Content types:

The Content types page lists all content types, including their name and description. From this page, we can add, edit, and manage content types along with their respective fields and displays. Currently, our Content types consist of Article and Basic page.

To get a better look at the makeup of a content type, we can view the Basic page content type by selecting the drop-down button and choosing Edit:

The Edit screen defines the configuration of a content type by providing a Name, a Description, and four subsections that handle various settings.

Submission form settings

Submission form settings allow us to define the Title field label, specify...