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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 started


So once again, get a clean installation set up and let's get ready to go.

Note

Throughout this chapter, there are a lot of aspects we have already covered. If you are unsure of how to create a content type for example, please review in a previous chapter.

Categorizing our Lessons

Before we can create our Lessons, we need to set up our taxonomy vocabulary, so let's go to Taxonomy and create a new vocabulary called Lesson type.

Start by creating a new content type and let's call this Lesson. In our Lesson, we will want to allow our administrator to add a Lesson video, description, and taxonomy.

Video embed

For our video, we will use a contrib module called Video Embed Field (https://drupal.org/project/video_embed_field). Let's add this to our composer file.

Now that we have downloaded video_embed_field, let's enable it. What this does is it creates a new field type that is available for any entity type.

Start off by adding a new field and then selecting Video Embed. Then, fill the label...