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Mastering Drupal 8

By : Sean Montague, Chaz Chumley, William Hurley
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Mastering Drupal 8

By: Sean Montague, Chaz Chumley, William Hurley

Overview of this book

Drupal is an open source content management system trusted by governments and organizations around the globe to run their websites. It brings with it extensive content authoring tools, reliable performance, and a proven track record of security. The community of more than 1,000,000 developers, designers, editors, and others have developed and maintained a wealth of modules, themes, and other add-ons to help you build a dynamic web experience. Drupal 8 is the latest release of the Drupal built on the Symfony2 framework. This is the largest change to the Drupal project in its history. The entire API of Drupal has been rebuilt using Symfony and everything from the administrative UI to themes to custom module development has been affected. This book will cover everything you need to plan and build a complete website using Drupal 8. It will provide a clear and concise walkthrough of the more than 200 new features and improvements introduced in Drupal core. In this book, you will learn advanced site building techniques, create and modify themes using Twig, create custom modules using the new Drupal API, explore the new REST and Multilingual functionality, import, and export Configuration, and learn how to migrate from earlier versions of Drupal.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Customer Feedback
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Preface

Chapter 4. Content Types, Taxonomy, and Comment Types

One of the more powerful capabilities of Drupal is the ability to create custom content types. Often referred to as a node, we can think of Content types as containers for holding content that has been defined with specific fields, such as a title and a body. However, we are not limited to only those two fields. We can pretty much add as many fields as needed based on how the content itself has been defined.

Something new to Drupal 8 is the Comment field, which can be added to content types, allowing users to comment on the content. Drupal provides this ability out of the box as part of the core with the ability to add Comment types that can have fields of their own. We will look at the default configuration and how to customize comments.

We can also add fields to tag, categorize, or classify content, known as Taxonomy. Categorizing content using various terms allows us to enhance content that can then be attached to content types as a...