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Mastering Drupal 8

Mastering Drupal 8

By : Sean Montague, Chaz Chumley, William Hurley
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Mastering Drupal 8

Mastering Drupal 8

4.2 (5)
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.
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Exploring Drupal's interface

By default, Drupal has two interfaces we can work with. The first is what any visitor to our site will see, consisting of content and blocks displayed in various regions on the page. This is often referred to as the anonymous user's view:

The second interface, known as the administrator interface, requires us to be logged in to a Drupal instance. We can log in by clicking on the login link or by navigating to /user/login and entering the user credentials that were created when Drupal was first installed:

Once logged in we are considered to be authenticated and, since we are logged in as User one, which is the Super User, we are also considered to be an administrator and are presented with an Admin toolbar.

The Admin toolbar itself is separated into three different functional areas: Manage, Shortcuts, and admin. Each of these sections organize...

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