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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

Quick content creation


An appreciation of this section will be much more effective if you have at least a small amount of content created so to that end let's create a couple of items of content with some lorem ipsum filler text and tag them with some makeshift keywords.

Tip

There are a variety of free Lorem Ipsum filler text browser plugins around which can help you to speed up the process of inserting filler text. For even more fun, we recommend the Corporate ipsum Chrome plugin, which provides paragraphs of corporate marketing nonsense.

Don't concern yourself with the fine detail here, just follow the steps as follows:

Click on the Shortcuts button in the Toolbar and choose Add content.

Next, click on Article to create a new article and enter a Title for the article, some filler text for the Body, and add a couple of tags: 'tag1' and 'tag2'.

Finally, click on Save and publish at the bottom of the screen to publish the article.

You'll be taken to the default view of article with a comment form...