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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

Help, logs, and reporting

Drupal core natively offers inline documentation to help guide users and features to report system logs and insights.

Help

Authenticated users can be granted access to Drupal’s native documentation found at admin/help. This is designed for multiple audiences. Help defined as a “tour” is designed to help with using Drupal. This can be as simple as editing page content or managing Drupal blocks. It also offers overviews for Drupal modules to help provide site builders more context about a module. All projects, even custom ones, are able to furnish their own documentation through Drupal’s help feature.

Logs and Reporting

Drupal maintains a robust logging and reporting system that can be helpful for administrators. All logging and reporting capabilities are found at admin/reports. This can be specific to projects, like reporting on the frequency of search terms or Views-specific usage. Or, it can be helpful in getting insights...