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Drupal 8 Blueprints

By : Alex Burrows
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Drupal 8 Blueprints

By: Alex Burrows

Overview of this book

Drupal is an open source content management framework that can be used for developing websites and simplifying online management of content for users. This book is a must-have for web developers who are looking to create professional-grade websites using Drupal 8. While building 7 different Drupal websites, we will focus on implementing the out of the box features that come with Drupal 8 and see how we can make some complex sites with minimal custom code. Focusing completely on Drupal 8, this book will help you leverage the new Drupal 8 features such as creating a different types and layouts of content using configuration to build in core with its built-in web services facilities, and effortless authoring using the new CKEditor with an effortless and efficient industry standard approach. The book starts with getting started with the development environment of Drupal. Each chapter will start with a brief overview of the site to be built and the required features. Then, we will proceed to create customized modules and themes and integrate third-party plugins. Lastly, you will learn about "headless" Drupal that uses RESTful services that would help you to display content outside of Drupal By the end of the book, you will be able to implement the knowledge gained to build your own custom websites using Drupal 8.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.Packtpub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction and Getting Set Up
3
Get Fundraising with Drupal
5
List Properties with Drupal
6
Express Your Event with Drupal
7
Get Teaching with Drupal

Creating the Post content type


In Drupal, we use the terminology of entity, and we have bundles inside an entity. As part of the Drupal core functionality, we have content types, which is in fact an entity type and therefore the Post content type is a bundle.

So, now that we are familiar with some basic Drupal terminology, let's move on to creating our Post content type.

If you use the menu at the top and click on Manage | Structure | Content Types, you will be taken to the Admin page for Content types:

Fig 1.1: The content type management page

By default, we have two content types in a standard Drupal installation (Basic page and Article). Article is pretty much a Post content type; however, for this, we shall ignore this and create our own content type entirely from scratch.

To create a new content type, click on + Add content type:

Fig 1.2: The Add content type page

On this page, we are presented with some fields, which we use to set up how a content type works.

So, let's add the information...