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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 block of recent blogs

In the last recipe, we created a page using the Views module to list articles in the Drupal site to build a blog. A view can contain multiple displays. Each display inherits defaults, such as its style and row format, filters, sorts, pager, and more. Each display type might have unique settings, such as the page settings where the menu link was configured in the previous recipe. In this recipe, we will add a block display so that we can list the five most recent articles by title anywhere on the site.

How to do it…

  1. Go to Structure and then Views. This will bring you to the administrative overview of all the views that are created.
  2. Find the Blog view that was created in the previous recipe and click on Edit.
  3. Under Displays, where it says Page, click on the Add button and select Block from the drop-down menu. This will create a new block display, which we can configure:
Figure 3.4 – The menu for adding a new display

Figure 3.4 – The menu...