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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.

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Learning Drupal 8
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Jan, 2016 | 328 pages
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Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Drupal 8
Learning Drupal 8
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction
Introduction
What is Drupal?
Some Drupal history
Summary
2
Installation
Installation
System requirements
Setting up a development environment
Free cloud hosting
Installing Drupal 8
Troubleshooting your installation
Trusted host patterns
Summary
3
Basic Concepts
Basic Concepts
Modules
Entities, nodes, and fields
Taxonomy
Blocks
Views
Users, roles, and permissions
Themes
Hooks
Summary
4
Getting Started with the UI
Getting Started with the UI
The Drupal 8 user interface
Responsiveness
Quick content creation
Listing content
Structure
Configuration
Appearance
People
Reports
Extend
Summary
5
Basic Content
Basic Content
Introducing your site-building scenario
Basic pages
Articles
Summary
6
Structure
Structure
Managing menus
Managing taxonomy
Working with the Views module
Working with Views blocks
Summary
7
Advanced Content
Advanced Content
Field types
Extending content types
Creating new content types
Listing testimonials with a view
Summary
8
Configuration
Configuration
People – Account settings
System
Content authoring
User interface
Development
Configuration synchronization
Media
Search and metadata
Regional and language
Web services
Summary
9
Users and Access Control
Users and Access Control
Users and roles
Permissions
Summary
10
Optional Features
Optional Features
Activity Tracker
Aggregator
Ban
Book
Forum
Responsive image
Statistics
Syslog
Core (experimental), Multilingual, and Web services
Summary
11
Reports
Reports
Accessing reports
Available updates
Recent log messages
Field list
Status report
Top 'access denied' errors
Top 'page not found' errors
Top search phrases
Views plugins
Summary
12
Extending Drupal
Extending Drupal
Installing a module
Improving FAQs
Pathauto and Token
Summary
13
Theming Drupal
Theming Drupal
What is a theme?
Terminology
Themes included in Drupal 8
Setting the active theme
Common settings
Theme regions
Color scheme
Setting the admin theme
Advanced themes from the Drupal community
Custom themes
Summary
14
Getting Support
Getting Support
What is open source?
The Drupal community
Drupal.org
Issue queues
The Drupal security team
api.drupal.org
IRC chat
The Drupal Association
DrupalCon
DrupalCamps
Specialist Drupal companies
Training
Certification
Summary
Index
Index

Installing Drupal 8

Now that you have your server environment configured, whether it be a cloud sandbox, your own web server, or the Dev Desktop, the steps to install Drupal 8 are the same, only the URL will be different. In the case of the Dev Desktop, go to http://drupal-8.dd:8083/install.php in your web browser.

Tip

Note that the Dev Desktop adds on the '.dd' suffix to the domain.

The Dev Desktop makes launching your new site very easy because it provides a shortcut link from within the control panel window:

You will see a number of option screens during the installation process, each of which we will walk through now.

Select the language you want to install and click on Save and continue. This is the language the user interface will be presented in:

Next, you will be asked which of two built-in installation profiles you wish to use.

Note that if are using the Dev Desktop then the Standard profile will be chosen automatically and so the whole step will be omitted.

If you have installed manually...

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