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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

Summary

Drupal has a core feature for visual content management called Layout Builder. Layout Builder leverages Drupal’s blocks feature, which offers structured content entities. Layout Builder provides a different content authoring experience beyond the default block management by adding a new concept of a layout that has a default layout managed per content type and the ability to manage layouts per node. This feature helps manage the presentation of rendered content within a specific region of a theme. This works for both system-wide blocks and custom block types. Node-specific layouts afford context where a block can be placed only on a node and not on a default layout, which would apply to all nodes using the default. Layout Builder offers site builders and content authors more control over where and how a specific field can be rendered but also adds block-specific content authoring within node-specific layouts. Drupal has other contributed solutions similar to Blocks and...