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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)

Creating custom content types


One of the most important steps to consider before blindly developing custom content types is to think of how content will be used. In most cases, a content audit is a preliminary step that should be taken. A content audit is quite easy to conduct, beginning with just asking two questions: how will the content be used and how will it be displayed?

If we look around the web, we can easily identify a common content type used on blogs, known as a Post. By understanding how a Post will be displayed, we can identify some of the fields we will need, such as the date the Post was created and the author of a Post. Also, most Posts contain some sort of media, generally consisting of an image or possibly a video. Using the Post as our model, we can easily create a new Post content type by following these steps:

Begin by navigating to /admin/structure/types or use the Admin toolbar and click on Manage | Structure and then Content types.

So far, we have only looked at content...