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Drupal 10 Development Cookbook

Drupal 10 Development Cookbook

By : Matt Glaman, Kevin Quillen
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Drupal 10 Development Cookbook

Drupal 10 Development Cookbook

4.5 (17)
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.
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Creating a custom theme to style your Drupal site

Drupal provides a theme generator to create custom themes for Drupal sites based on the Starterkit theme. This provides all of the base CSS stylesheets, JavaScript files, and Twig templates to begin customizing the look and feel of your Drupal site. The theme generator is bundled with a developer command-line tool provided by Drupal core in core/scripts/drupal.

How to do it…

  1. The script for generating a theme needs to be executed in the web directory, so navigate there in your terminal:
    cd web
  2. Run the generate-theme command from the core/scripts/drupal script:
    php core/scripts/drupal generate-theme mytheme --name
      "My theme"

The generate-theme command accepts one argument – the machine name for the theme. You can also pass the name option to give it a human-readable name.

  1. After the theme has been generated, it will be available in the web/themes directory. The command will...

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