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Drupal 8 Blueprints

By : Burrows

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Drupal 8 Blueprints

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By: Burrows

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Overview of this book

Drupal is an open source content management framework that can be used for developing websites and simplifying online management of content for users. This book is a must-have for web developers who are looking to create professional-grade websites using Drupal 8. While building 7 different Drupal websites, we will focus on implementing the out of the box features that come with Drupal 8 and see how we can make some complex sites with minimal custom code. Focusing completely on Drupal 8, this book will help you leverage the new Drupal 8 features such as creating a different types and layouts of content using configuration to build in core with its built-in web services facilities, and effortless authoring using the new CKEditor with an effortless and efficient industry standard approach. The book starts with getting started with the development environment of Drupal. Each chapter will start with a brief overview of the site to be built and the required features. Then, we will proceed to create customized modules and themes and integrate third-party plugins. Lastly, you will learn about "headless" Drupal that uses RESTful services that would help you to display content outside of Drupal By the end of the book, you will be able to implement the knowledge gained to build your own custom websites using Drupal 8.

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Introduction and Getting Set Up

Setting up for local development

Telling Your Own Story with Drupal

Creating the Post content type

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Get Fundraising with Drupal

What will we learn?

Recruit Using Drupal

Getting started

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List Properties with Drupal

Getting prepared

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Express Your Event with Drupal

Getting started

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Get Teaching with Drupal

Getting started

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Go Static with Drupal

Getting started

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Telling Your Own Story with Drupal

Latest news is an important part of any website for many businesses. They allow the business

to engage with their customers and keep their employees updated. In this chapter, we will create a simple news website using Drupal 8 core functionality. This can also be used as a blog; we're just making it sound exciting and relatable.

This chapter will be a little more in depth in showing how the basic functionality of Drupal works; this will allow quicker development later throughout the book.

We will explore the following topics in the chapter: