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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

Managing displays


In instances where we want to feature an image or we know the same content may be used in multiple ways, it makes sense to have more structured content. The Post content type we added back in Chapter 4, Content Types, Taxonomy, and Comment Types is a perfect example. Let's perform the following steps to do that:

  1. Begin by navigating to /admin/content or use the Admin toolbar and click on Manage - Content and then select our Post One page.
  1. Currently the default display of our content is presented, exposing all our fields, including their labels. Being able to manage the display on a per content type basis allows us to suppress what fields are shown, re-order how fields appear, and control how labels are displayed. So how do we manage these different displays and their fields within Drupal?
  2. Open a new tab in the browser and navigate to /admin/structure/types/manage/post/display, or use the Admin toolbar, select Manage -Structure-Content types, and then choose Manage display from...