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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

Getting prepared


Before we get started with our property listing website, let's do a clean Drupal installation.

Once we have done our new installation, let's remove the parts we don't specifically want on our website. Previously, we just left in the default configuration for our website; however, let's make our installation use just what we ideally want.

Cleaning up

First off, let's delete all our content types. To do this, go to Admin | Structure | Content types and select Delete on the content type; repeat this for the other content type.

Next, move to Admin | Structure | Comment types and repeat the same for our comment type. From here, go to Admin | Extend and then click on the Uninstall tab.

Note

Previous Drupal core versions allowed modules to be disabled; in Drupal 8, we need to uninstall them from the system configuration.

We need to select the following modules to uninstall:

  • Comment
  • Color

Now that we have done all of this for our property, we can start with creating our Property content type...