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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

Summary


We covered a lot of information in this chapter by learning how to master content types, Taxonomy, and Comment types. Starting with exploring content types, we got first-hand knowledge of just how flexible Drupal 8 is in allowing us to configure how content can be captured and displayed. Including managing fields using the Field UI provides for a consistent site-building experience.

Next, we looked at how to categorize content using Taxonomy, Vocabularies, and terms. We then added term reference to custom content types, allowing for site admins to tag content, which in turn allows users to filter content easily.

We also dove into the new comment types and how Drupal has moved this functionality into core to be managed like content types with its fieldable displays. We then added our comment type as a field, which enables users to comment on content.

Finally, we took another look at Drupal console to assist us with generating dummy content, including vocabularies, terms, comments, and...