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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

People – Account settings


The user account settings screen can be reached at Configuration | People | Account settings (admin/config/people/accounts).

The section is quite extensive and covers a few different areas, so we will look at them individually.

The type of website you are building will dictate the exact choices you make here, but it's important to consider all the options in turn before you allow users to start creating accounts.

Note that the actual management of users and permissions is covered in the Chapter 9, Users and Access Control.

The website you are building has the following requirements:

  • You need individual user accounts for different people in the company.

  • Visitors (anonymous users) should be able to create an account.

  • Visitors should not be able to post comments.

  • Site members should be able to post comments without approval.

Keep these requirements in mind as we work through the user configuration pages.

The configuration comprises multiple sections shown in the following screenshot...