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Learning Drupal 8
About this book
Create complex websites quickly and easily using the building blocks of Drupal 8, the most powerful version of Drupal yet
About This Book
- Build complete, complex websites with no prior knowledge of web development entirely using the intuitive Drupal user interface
- Follow a practical case study chapter-by-chapter to construct a complete website as you progress
- Ensure your sites are modern, responsive and mobile-friendly through utilizing the full features available in Drupal 8
Who This Book Is For
If you want to learn to use Drupal 8 for the first time, or you are transitioning over from a previous version of Drupal, this is the book for you. No knowledge of PHP, MySQL, or HTML is assumed or required
What You Will Learn
- Set up a local "stack" development environment and install your first Drupal 8 site
- Find out what is available in Drupal 8 core
- Define content types and taxonomies—and find out when you should do so
- Use the powerful Views module
- Get hands-on with image and media handling
- Extend Drupal using custom community modules
- Develop the look and feel of your website using Drupal themes
- Manage site users and permissions
In Detail
Drupal 8 sets a new standard for ease of use, while offering countless new ways to tailor and deploy your content to the Web. Drupal 8 allows user to easily customize data structures, listings, and pages, and take advantage of new capabilities for displaying data on mobile devices, building APIs, and adapting to multilingual needs.
The book takes you step by step through building a Drupal 8 website. Start with the basics, such as setting up a local "stack" development environment and installing your first Drupal 8 site, then move on to image and media handling, and extending Drupal modules. Push your knowledge by getting to grips with the modular nature of Drupal, and learning to extend it by adding new functionalities to create your new modules. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop and manage a modern and responsive website using Drupal.
Style and approach
This is an absolute beginners' guide, providing step-by-step instructions to help you learn Drupal 8 from scratch.
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Learning Drupal 8
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Learning Drupal 8
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Who this book is for
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Questions
1. Introduction
What is Drupal?
Dynamic web pages – a brief history
Enter the database
A worldwide community
The success of Drupal
Multiple systems integration
Technical debt
Developer knowledge
Modularity
There's a module for that
Some Drupal history
Language choice
Is Drupal a framework or platform?
Embracing other communities' frameworks
How an open source community works
Summary
2. Installation
System requirements
PHP
Web server options
Database options
Browser options
Setting up a development environment
Free cloud hosting
Acquia Dev Desktop
Installing Drupal 8
Configuring your Drupal 8 site
Troubleshooting your installation
Memory settings
PHP timeouts
Trusted host patterns
Summary
3. Basic Concepts
Modules
Core and contrib modules
Where the core modules live
Where your extension modules should live
An example community module
Evaluating new modules
Documentation
Module versions
Entities, nodes, and fields
Entities
Nodes
Node types
Fields
Adding new fields
Field types
General
Number
Reference
Text
Field settings
Field widgets
Form display
Managing the form display
Managing field display
Drupal 8 core entity types
Taxonomy
Fixed terms versus or tags
Blocks
Views
Users, roles, and permissions
Themes
Administration themes
Base themes and subthemes
Hooks
Summary
4. Getting Started with the UI
The Drupal 8 user interface
Logging out
Logging in
Front page
Repositioning the tray
Responsiveness
Administration theme
Contextual links
Quick content creation
Listing content
Revisiting the home page
Structure
Block layout
Comment types
Contact forms
Personal contact form
Content types
Customizing a content type
Customizing fields
Customizing content entry screens
Customizing the display
Display modes
View modes
Form modes
Menus
Taxonomy
Views
Configuration
Appearance
People
Reports
Extend
Summary
5. Basic Content
Introducing your site-building scenario
Types of content
Pages
Articles
Clients
Services
Testimonials
FAQs
Contact information
SEO considerations
Basic pages
Creating a new page
Title
Body
Body field summary
Rich text toolbar
Default HTML restrictions
Full HTML
Restricted HTML
Adding a page to the main navigation menu
Nodes and unique IDs
Adding more pages
Articles
Creating a new article
Front page promotion
Adjusting the settings for a content type
Disabling front page promotion
Adjusting comment settings
Disabling future comments
No retrospective action
Retrospective action
Threading
Show reply form on the same page as comments
Preview comments before posting
Removing all comments and the ability to comment
Summary
6. Structure
Managing menus
Reorganizing menu items
Editing menu items
Managing taxonomy
Creating a new Taxonomy vocabulary
Re-ordering Taxonomy terms
Apply a taxonomy vocabulary to content types
Adjusting the order of fields when editing
Categorizing content
Viewing categorized content
Segregating article types using taxonomy
Creating another taxonomy vocabulary
Working with the Views module
Creating a Views-powered News p...
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