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Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen
Book Image

Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen

Overview of this book

This new and improved third edition cookbook is packed with the latest Drupal 10 features such as a new, flexible default frontend theme - Olivero, and improved administrative experience with a new theme - Claro. This comprehensive recipe book provides updated content on the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editing experience, improved core code performance, and code cleanup. Drupal 10 Development Cookbook begins by helping you create and manage a Drupal site. Next, you’ll get acquainted with configuring the content structure and editing content. You’ll also get to grips with all new updates of this edition, such as creating custom pages, accessing and working with entities, running and writing tests with Drupal, migrating external data into Drupal, and turning Drupal into an API platform. As you advance, you’ll learn how to customize Drupal’s features with out-of-the-box modules, contribute extensions, and write custom code to extend Drupal. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create and manage Drupal sites, customize them to your requirements, and build custom code to deliver your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Creating a blog landing page

The Views module does one thing, and it does it well – listing content. The power behind the Views module is the amount of configurable power it gives to end users to display content in various forms. This recipe will cover the process of how to create a content listing and link it to the main menu. We will use the Article content type to create a blog landing page.

How to do it…

  1. Go to Structure and then Views. This will bring you to the administrative overview of all the views created. Click on Add view to create a new view:
Figure 3.1 – The Views listing overview

Figure 3.1 – The Views listing overview

  1. The first step is to provide the view name of Blog, which will serve as the administrative and (by default) displayed title.
  2. Next, we will modify the View settings section. We want to display Content of the Article type and leave the tagged with field empty. This will force the view to only show content of the Article...