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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

Managing fields using the Field UI


Managing fields in Drupal 8 is quite simple and is just a matter of choosing the type of field we want to add and configuring it. By default, Drupal adds a Body field for managing basic content. We can choose to use this field to capture formatted data, but since we have not created any post content, we can also choose to delete this field and create all new fields.

Deleting fields

Deleting a field using the Field UI only requires that the field is not being reused across multiple content types and that the field has no data stored in it. Since this is a new instance of our Post content type, we can delete the Body field by selecting Delete from the drop-down button next to the field name:

Once we choose to delete a field, we will be prompted by Drupal, asking us to confirm our selection. We can complete the process by clicking on the Delete button once more.

Now that we have only the Title field attached to our Post content type, we will need to add some new...