Congratulations! You have mastered working with Blocks in Drupal 8. A considerable amount of thought goes into how to best develop a website and the use of blocks is no different. Whether we are using existing blocks or creating custom blocks, the process should now be familiar to that of working with content types.
To recap, we learned how to work with the core functionality of Drupal to perform the tasks included in the following list:
- We explored the Block layout page and demonstrated how Regions can have blocks assigned to them
- We worked with Block configuration, settings, and visibility to control how blocks appear on pages based on multiple configurations
- Not only did we look at system blocks, but we learned how to create custom blocks, add new fields, manage form display, and control which fields are displayed to the end user
- Finally, we used the new Place blocks module to speed up block placement and workflow
Next, we will be taking a closer look at content authoring, HTML5, and...