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Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

By : Chaz Chumley
Book Image

Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

By: Chaz Chumley

Overview of this book

Drupal 8 is an open source content management system and powerful framework that helps deliver great websites to individuals and organizations, including non-profits, commercial, and government around the globe. This new release has been built on top of object-oriented PHP and includes more than a handful of improvements such as a better user experience, cleaner HTML5 markup, a new templating engine called Twig, multilingual capabilities, new configuration management, and effortless content authoring. Drupal 8 will quickly become the new standard for deploying content to both the web and mobile applications. However, with so many new changes, it can quickly become overwhelming knowing where to start and how to quickly. Starting from the bottom up, we will install, set up, and configure Drupal 8. We’ll navigate the Admin interface so you can learn how to work with core themes and create new custom block layouts. Walk through a real-world project to create a Twig theme from concept to completion while adopting best practices to implement CSS frameworks and JavaScript libraries. We will see just how quick and easy it is to create beautiful, responsive Drupal 8 websites while avoiding the common mistakes that many front-end developers make.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Drupal 8 Theming with Twig
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Implementing our Header Top region


The first item we will need to address is replacing the static content in our Header Top region. Referring back to the Mockup, we have a menu of social icons that display within this region. Also, if we look closely, each social icon is using the Font Awesome library. Tackling the next section will require the following techniques:

  1. First, we will create a custom block to display our Social Icons menu and then assign it to the Header Top region so that it is available to render.

  2. Next, we will add the Font Awesome library for our social icon to use.

  3. Finally, we will modify our static content to display our Header Top region.

Creating our Social Icons block

Creating blocks of content is fairly simple, and we will be doing this often as we recreate each section of our theme. We will start by navigating to the Block layout page at /admin/structure/block and following these nine steps:

  1. Click on the Place block button in the Header Top region.

  2. Click on the Add custom...