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Drupal 8 Development Cookbook

Drupal 8 Development Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Matt Glaman
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Drupal 8 Development Cookbook

Drupal 8 Development Cookbook

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By: Matt Glaman

Overview of this book

Began as a message board, Drupal today is open source software maintained and developed by a community of over 1,000,000 users and developers. Drupal is used by numerous local businesses to global corporations and diverse organizations all across the globe. With Drupal 8’s exciting features it brings, this book will be your go-to guide to experimenting with all of these features through helpful recipes. We’ll start by showing you how to customize and configure the Drupal environment as per your requirements, as well as how to install third-party libraries and then use them in the Drupal environment. Then we will move on to creating blocks and custom modules with the help of libraries. We will show you how to use the latest mobile-first feature of Drupal 8, which will help you make your apps responsive across all the major platforms. This book will also show you how to incorporate multilingual facilities in your sites, use web services and third-party plugins with your applications from inside Drupal 8, and test and deploy your apps.
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Creating a blog landing page

The Views module does one thing, and it does it well – listing content. The power behind the Views module is the amount of configurable power it gives to end users to display content in various forms. This recipe will cover the process of how to create a content listing and link it to the main menu. We will use the Article content type to create a blog landing page.

How to do it…

  1. Go to Structure and then Views. This will bring you to the administrative overview of all the views created. Click on Add view to create a new view:
Figure 3.1 – The Views listing overview

Figure 3.1 – The Views listing overview

  1. The first step is to provide the view name of Blog, which will serve as the administrative and (by default) displayed title.
  2. Next, we will modify the View settings section. We want to display Content of the Article type and leave the tagged with field empty. This will force the view to only show content of the Article...
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