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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

Types of maintenance

Maintaining a Drupal site can take many forms. Drupal itself is always evolving. Changes can be very frequent because they span releases in all projects of a Drupal application, including core and contributed projects. Releases can even happen based on project dependencies, so changes to Drupal application code can be very frequent. Drupal also runs on a platform stack with physical infrastructure built on software that also evolves. It is also common for content to require maintenance, such as when new staff is hired at a company and the staff listing is no longer up to date. Content management activities are covered in Chapter 14. This chapter covers how to effectively maintain a Drupal application.

Code-related maintenance

Drupal projects often put out new releases, and those managing Drupal applications need a strategy for this. Releases can come in the form of major and minor releases. The semantics around major and minor are intentional. Major implies...