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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)

Taxonomy, Vocabularies, and Terms


Categorizing content is a great way to allow users to find all content grouped by a specific term. Adding Taxonomy in Drupal gives us this ability by adding Vocabularies with Terms that we can add as a field to content types. However, to add a term field to our Post content type, we need to first create a Taxonomy.

We can begin by navigating to /admin/structure/taxonomy or using the Admin toolbar and clicking on Manage - Structure, then selecting Taxonomy:

Taxonomy terms are grouped into vocabularies and by default Drupal provides us with the Tags vocabulary. Vocabularies contain terms, which is just the name used to identify the piece of content within that specific category.

Adding a vocabulary

We will be adding a vocabulary entitled Category, where we will then add terms for items such as Outdoors, Camping, Rock Climbing, and any other terms we may need in the future.

We can begin by following these steps by clicking on the Add vocabulary button and entering...