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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

Using Better preview


Any content type that has been configured to allow previews can use the new Better preview option. We can demonstrate this by performing the following steps:

  1. Navigate to our Post One page and selecting the Edit tab, which will take us to the Edit form page.
  2. Next we need to click on the Preview button at the bottom of the page.
  3. We will now be in Better preview mode and should notice a new navigation bar at the top of our page. The preview bar allows us to switch the View mode that is currently being presented.
  4. Select the Teaserin theView mode and we will see our changes.
  1. Until we begin theming a site or have additional ways to manage content, the Better preview option will come in quite handy. At any time, we can also click on the Back to content editing button to switch back to our Edit form.