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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 view pages and blocks


We can create a new page display by selecting the Add button from the Displays screen and then selecting Page* from the list.

Most settings will be the same as the initial Master Display you initially created. The new configuration is around how a user will be able to get to the View. There will be a new section labeled PAGE SETTINGS where we will see options for Path and Menu.

  • Path is the URL that a user can place within their browser to navigate to the View page.
  • Menu is where the new path will be attached to., such as the main menu of our site.

Path is required, so we will need to click on the link that reads No path is set and enter a new path in the dialog that opens. The path should be entered without a leading slash, for example it should be like articles and not /articles.

You can optionally add a menu link to our page. Clicking on the link that reads No menu entry will bring up a dialog where we can add one of a few different types of menu links:

Menu link...