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Drupal 10 Masterclass

By : Adam Bergstein
Book Image

Drupal 10 Masterclass

By: Adam Bergstein

Overview of this book

Learning Drupal can be challenging because of its robust, extensible, and powerful capability for digital experiences, making it difficult for beginners to grasp and use it for application development. If you’re looking to break into Drupal with hands-on knowledge, this Drupal 10 Masterclass is for you. With this book, you’ll gain a thorough knowledge of Drupal by understanding its core concepts, including its technical architecture, frontend, backend, framework, and latest features. Equipped with foundational knowledge, you’ll bootstrap and install your first project with expert guidance on maintaining Drupal applications. Progressively, you’ll build applications using Drupal’s core features such as content structures, multilingual support, users, roles, Views, search, and digital assets. You’ll discover techniques for developing modules and themes and harness Drupal’s robust content management through layout builder, blocks, and content workflows. The book familiarizes you with prominent tools such as Git, Drush, and Composer for code deployments and DevOps practices for Drupal application management. You’ll also explore advanced use cases for content migration and multisite implementation, extending your application’s capabilities. By the end of this book, you’ll not only have learned how to build a successful Drupal application but may also find yourself contributing to the Drupal community.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
1
Part 1:Foundational Concepts
7
Part 2:Setting up - Installing and Maintaining
10
Part 3:Building - Features and Configuration
12
Chapter 9: Users, Roles, and Permissions
17
Part 4:Using - Content Management
21
Part 5:Advanced Topics
Appendix A - Drupal Terminology

Using Views and display modes

Using Views is one of the more difficult tasks for site builders given its vast configuration options. While this chapter affords hands-on options, it is important to explore the feature in greater depth and to get more practice with time.

All the following examples leverage a blog content type with a primary use case of building different blog-related displays in the Drupal application. For the sake of clarity, the content type has fields for title, body, featured, and a banner image. Also, it’s assumed the Views UI module is enabled for the next screenshots and that a user is logged in with the correct permissions.

Creating a teaser display mode for blogs

An effective teaser could be as simple as a title of the blog linked to the full page with some preliminary, summarized body content.

Follow these instructions to create a teaser:

  1. A teaser display mode can be created by going to Administration | Structure | Display modes ...