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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

Adding the About Us block


After all the complex Views, Blocks, and Twig templates, adding the About Us block to our sidebar will seem quite simple. The last block to complete our Blog Listing page already exists, so adding it will just be an exercise in managing custom block layouts.

Begin by navigating to /admin/structure/block and follow these steps:

  1. Locate the Sidebar second region.

  2. Click on the Place block button.

  3. Locate the About Us block.

  4. Click on the Place block button.

  5. Select the Pages tab under Visibility.

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

  7. On a second line, add another path to /blog/*.

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

  9. Click on the Save block button.

With our About Us block assigned to the Sidebar second region, we will want to make sure it is third in the block order. Reorder the blocks if necessary and then click on the Save blocks button. We have one final piece of theming before our About Us block is complete.

Implementing the About Us template

In...