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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 Headline Region


The third item we will need to address is replacing the static content in our Headline region. Referring back to the mockup, we have a responsive slider, parallax content, and a jump to the menu icon. Tackling the next section will introduce some new steps:

  1. First, we will address the Headline slider, which will require us to build a view to aggregate Headline content using a block display.

  2. Next, we will assign the new block to our Headline region and refactor the markup.

  3. Finally, we will add a JS library for FlexSlider to enable the responsive slider.

Creating our Headline View and Block

Drupal 8 has taken the popular Views module and integrated it into the core module system. We can take advantage of Views to aggregate the content that our Headline slider needs.

To get started, we will need to navigate to /admin/structure/views and click on the Add new view button from the Views Admin screen, where we will add the following information:

  • VIEW BASIC INFORMATION...