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Drupal 10 Masterclass

By : Adam Bergstein
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Drupal 10 Masterclass

By: Adam Bergstein

Overview of this book

Learning Drupal can be challenging because of its robust, extensible, and powerful capability for digital experiences, making it difficult for beginners to grasp and use it for application development. If you’re looking to break into Drupal with hands-on knowledge, this Drupal 10 Masterclass is for you. With this book, you’ll gain a thorough knowledge of Drupal by understanding its core concepts, including its technical architecture, frontend, backend, framework, and latest features. Equipped with foundational knowledge, you’ll bootstrap and install your first project with expert guidance on maintaining Drupal applications. Progressively, you’ll build applications using Drupal’s core features such as content structures, multilingual support, users, roles, Views, search, and digital assets. You’ll discover techniques for developing modules and themes and harness Drupal’s robust content management through layout builder, blocks, and content workflows. The book familiarizes you with prominent tools such as Git, Drush, and Composer for code deployments and DevOps practices for Drupal application management. You’ll also explore advanced use cases for content migration and multisite implementation, extending your application’s capabilities. By the end of this book, you’ll not only have learned how to build a successful Drupal application but may also find yourself contributing to the Drupal community.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
1
Part 1:Foundational Concepts
7
Part 2:Setting up - Installing and Maintaining
10
Part 3:Building - Features and Configuration
12
Chapter 9: Users, Roles, and Permissions
17
Part 4:Using - Content Management
21
Part 5:Advanced Topics
Appendix A - Drupal Terminology

Importance of structured content

Drupal has long been viewed favorably for its structured content capabilities offered to site builders. So, why is this so important?

Content management went through a bit of an evolution, starting around 1995 when programming languages such as ASP and PHP were introduced. Earlier CMSs ran software that annotated, scanned, and managed content through flat files. Those flat files were either HTML or software-generated HTML. HTML would still require uploads to web servers. While this was fine for simple content updates, content would end up being duplicated.

Take a news article, for instance.. That same news article may be featured on a listing found on every page and have its page with the full article. The listing likely lists the title of the news article and maybe a teaser to lead readers in. However, the title ends up being duplicated on basically any page where the listing is displayed and on the full article. Now, imagine this at scale where...