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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

Working with form and content display


Content form display is just as important as the content itself, and knowing how to provide our end users with a better authoring experience is simple with Drupal 8.

Start by navigating to /node/add/post or by using the Admin toolbar and clicking on Content and then selecting Add content and then Post:

At first glance, we can see that the flow of our form is not very friendly. Our Featured Image and CATEGORY fields are displayed at the bottom of our form when it would make much more sense to have them displayed after the Author field. Also, how to select a Category for a Post may not be very clear to the user. Finally, some fields should not be displayed if we don't expect the user to interact with them.

Drupal 8 provides us with the ability to rearrange fields, change the format of how fields are displayed, and even disable the display of fields using the Manage form display for each content type. We can make our Post form more usable by navigating to...