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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 social sharing capabilities


Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest provide another medium for content to be shared with family, friends, and coworkers. Most websites provide a mechanism for sharing content, and our Blog detail page is no different.

Based on our mockup, we allow users to share a post as well as see the number of likes, tweets, or pins. In fact, there are a number of different third-party libraries or APIs that make this functionality easy to implement. Services such as Share This, http://www.sharethis.com/, or even Add This , https://www.addthis.com/, provide either a library or contributed modules to implement this functionality within Drupal.

The Add This buttons

For our particular page, we will be using the Add This service. There are various button options and configurations that can be created, so to avoid any confusion with adding this service to our template, we will be using the standard buttons. The implementation of the Add This button...