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Learning Drupal 8

By : Nick Abbott
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Learning Drupal 8

By: Nick Abbott

Overview of this book

Drupal 8 sets a new standard for ease of use, while offering countless new ways to tailor and deploy your content to the Web. Drupal 8 allows user to easily customize data structures, listings, and pages, and take advantage of new capabilities for displaying data on mobile devices, building APIs, and adapting to multilingual needs. The book takes you step by step through building a Drupal 8 website. Start with the basics, such as setting up a local “stack” development environment and installing your first Drupal 8 site, then move on to image and media handling, and extending Drupal modules. Push your knowledge by getting to grips with the modular nature of Drupal, and learning to extend it by adding new functionalities to create your new modules. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop and manage a modern and responsive website using Drupal.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Drupal 8
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Issue queues


For Drupal core and all Drupal contributed modules there is an issue queue, which you can use to request support or provide feedback. This is the most reliable way of communicating with the maintainers of the modules in question.

Remember, those individuals looking after different modules have assumed the responsibility of responding to questions in the issue queues, but they are still volunteers. Some more popular modules generate more questions than it would be possible to process as a full-time job.

Reporting a bug or requesting support

If you want to communicate with the module maintainer or Drupal core team, create a new issue using the project page.

In order to get attention for your issue, be as clear and descriptive as possible. If you are reporting a bug, provide the steps to reproduce it.

The best practice for getting help in the Drupal issue queues is as follows:

  1. Always search first, in case someone has experienced the problem before.

  2. Be clear and descriptive when you file...