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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

Extending Search

Like most out-of-the-box Drupal features, search is designed to be extended. Several popular use cases can be addressed by contributed modules.

Facets

Facets (drupal.org/project/facets) is a project intended to offer site builders the ability to create additional search filters for end users who use search. Facets work well with Drupal’s structured content models. Consider a taxonomy field that categorizes nodes. Being able to filter by a term could be very useful beyond the out-of-the-box advanced search.

Facets go well beyond a term-based selection. Facets can natively change based on the type of field. This can be different form widgets or even different logic for searching fields. Ultimately, site builders can leverage this module to provide commonly used search interfaces tied to the underlying structured content.

Third-party indexes

Drupal offers out-of-the-box search capabilities, but other technologies might be better at allowing an application...