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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 prebuilt themes


Additional themes for Drupal 8 can be found in several places. Some of these themes must be purchased, whereas others are free to use. We can browse Drupal.org to find prebuilt themes and look at how to install them using the Drupal admin.

You can begin by navigating to https://drupal.org/project/project_theme.

The Download & Extend section of Drupal.org allows us to filter results based on various options. We can find Drupal 8--specific themes by performing the following steps:

  1. Select 8.x from the Core compatibility drop-down.
  2. Click on the Search button.

  1. With a selection of themes compatible with Drupal 8 to choose from, one result looks promising and that is the Bootstrap 3 theme, shown in the following screenshot:

If we scroll down to the Downloads section of the page, we will be presented with several versions of the Bootstrap theme. We will click on either the tar.gz or .zip version that corresponds to Drupal 8. Once the file is downloaded, we will extract the contents...