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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

CKEditor and text formats


The moment we begin to work with content types, specifically adding content, we notice that CKEditor is now available.

CKEditor comes configured by default with the Standard profile installation, including a few text formats for us to use.

If we navigate to /admin/config/content/formats or use the Admin toolbar and click on Manage - Configuration and then select Text formats and editors, we will be taken to the Text formats and editors admin screen:

By default, Drupal has created and configured four different text formats for us to use:

  • Basic HTML
  • Restricted HTML
  • Full HTML
  • Plain text

Each format is configured differently, based on how we expect content to be managed. Based on the configuration, a content editor, site administrator, or authenticated user can perform various actions when adding content.

Based on the needs of our website, we can add additional text formats and configure them accordingly. However, to get a better understanding of how text formats work, let's...