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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

Exploring the Custom block library


One difference from Drupal 7 is that block content can no longer be directly edited by selecting an edit link from a context menu or by clicking on an Edit button on the Block layout page. Drupal 8 introduced a new section known as the Custom block library.

We can navigate to the Custom block library by directly entering /admin/structure/block/block-content, or by using the Admin toolbar and clicking on Structure | Block layout and then selecting the Custom block library tab.

The Custom block library page consists of two sub-sections:

  • The Blocks tab displays all custom blocks that have been created. Each block is listed by Block description, Block type, and last updated date
  • The Block types tab displays all block types that have been created. Each block type is listed by the type and description

We will take a closer look at each section beginning with the Blocks tab. It is this section where we will be able to Edit and Delete custom blocks that have been created...