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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

Creating a custom block


So far, we have been working with system-generated blocks. However, with the introduction of fieldable blocks in Drupal 8, we can create custom blocks. Custom blocks are quite powerful and will be used to display content in ways not possible previously without a contributed module.

Begin by navigating to the Block layout page by directly entering /admin/structure/block, or by using the Admin toolbar and clicking on Structure | Block layout.

We can create a custom block by following these steps:

  1. Locate the Sidebar second region.
  2. Click on the Place block button.
  3. Click on the Add custom block button.

We are now presented with the Add custom block screen that will allow us to create a default custom block that includes a Block description and a Body field.

We can continue filling out our custom block by entering the following values:

  1. Block description is our custom block.
  2. Body is some basic content.
  3. Click on the Save button.

Our custom block has been created, but we still need to...