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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

Managing our Post Listing block


Any time we create a new block display using views, we can easily assign it to any region from the Block layout page. Begin by navigating to /admin/structure/block and follow these steps:

  1. Locate the Content region.

  2. Click on the Place block button.

  3. Locate the Post Listing block.

  4. Click on the Place block button.

  5. Uncheck the Display title checkbox.

  6. Select the Pages tab under Visibility.

  7. Enter the path /blog into the Page text field.

  8. Make sure the Show for the listed pages checkbox is selected.

  9. Click on the Save block button.

  10. Click on the Save blocks button at the bottom of the Block layout page.

Make sure the Post Listing block is the last block displayed in our content region. If not, then reorder the blocks accordingly and click on the Save blocks button at the bottom of the Block layout screen.

Navigate back to the Blog listing page by browsing to /blog or by selecting the Blog link in the main menu. We can see that our Post listing block is now displaying on the page...