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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

Chapter 8. Theming Essentials

Before we can get started with creating or managing themes in Drupal 8, we need to have a better understanding of exactly what a theme is. From there, we will have the basis for how we work with themes in Drupal and the various configurations and components that are part of the theming ecosystem.

Let's get started by exploring what we will cover along the way:

  • We will explore the Appearance interface and the core default themes while learning how themes are administered, how to install and uninstall themes, how they are configured, and the different settings a theme can have
  • Then, we will take a closer look at the themes folder structure and the different files that make up a theme
  • Finally, we will work with the various files that make up a theme, along with creating the structure that will allow us to build our first custom theme