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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)

Working with images


Images play a vital part of any website build and Drupal 8 provides multiple ways of managing them. The first we will look at involves using CKEditor and the WYSIWYG.

When we looked at how text formats were configured you may have noticed the Image button in the Available toolbar. This Image plugin allows for us to easily add images to content as well as control alignment and captions. To demonstrate this, we will create a Basic page by performing the following steps:

  1. Begin by navigating to /node/add/page or by using the Admin toolbar and clicking on Manage - Content, and then Add content, and finally Basic page.
  2. From the Create Basic page form, go ahead and enter a Title for Contact Us.
  3. Next we will add an image to the Body field by selecting the Image button from the WYSIWYG toolbar.
  1. From the Insert Image dialog, we can select the Choose File button to add an image from our computer.
  2. Next we can add Alternative text. We will skip the Align and Caption settings for now.
  3. Select...