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Drupal 7 Cookbook

By : Dylan Spencer James
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Drupal 7 Cookbook

By: Dylan Spencer James

Overview of this book

<p>Drupal 7 is a modern Content Management System famed for its flexibility and power. Using Drupal you can easily create custom functionality that would otherwise have to be purchased in many of the other leading CMSs.<br /><br />"Drupal 7 Cookbook" is filled with recipes to help you to do more with Drupal and improve your skills. Chapters range from content creation, to theming, to managing your site. You will learn how to create your own content types and use them to create Views, Blocks, and Pages. This book will take you from novice to pro in just 12 chapters.<br /><br />In a wide variety of practical recipes, you will learn how to work with views and panels, how to provide translations for your content to create a multilingual site, and to integrate your site with social media. You can develop the Zen starter theme or learn how to create custom cross-browser compatible Drupal themes, including themes for mobile devices. The Drupal 7 Cookbook contains all of the means necessary to take your skills from those of a novice Drupal user to a proficient site builder.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Drupal 7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface

Creating a custom page layout using the Layout builder


The Panels module comes equipped with various prebuilt layouts. While the existing layouts are suitable for many different uses, it is possible to use the Layout builder to build a bespoke solution. In this recipe, we will be building a page with a full width top row region with four column regions below.

Getting ready

For this recipe, please ensure you have installed the Panels and Views modules described in the introduction to this chapter.

How to do it...

We will first be creating a new sample Page called Custom layout page, we will then set the Layout to Flexible and finally we will create a custom layout using the Layout builder:

  1. 1. Select Structure from the admin menu, then select Pages.

  2. 2. Select +Add custom page.

  3. 3. In the Administrative title field enter Custom layout page.

  4. 4. In the Path field enter pages/custom-layout-page.

  5. 5. Click on Continue.

  6. 6. On the Choose layout page, select Builders from the Category drop-down.

  7. 7. Select the...