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Drupal 10 Masterclass

By : Adam Bergstein
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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

Use cases

Files, images, and media can be used in different ways and are exemplified in the following use cases.

Creating research papers

Suppose that researchers are Drupal users who can highlight their publications in the content management system for their academic institution. A researcher can also be a user role in Drupal, which allows for fine-grained access control of that persona. This use case can be completed by linking file fields to the research papers content type. Most research papers are published as PDF files, not images or videos. Follow these steps to perform the site building that’s needed for this use case:

  1. Create a research paper content type under admin/structure/types/add.
  2. Add a file field to the new content type that’s restricted to PDF file extensions.
  3. Manage the display of the research papers content type to create a teaser display that provides a simple link to the research paper file field.
  4. Grant the researcher role...