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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

Authoring content

Never forget the content author who is tasked with using the Drupal application you have built. Drupal has a lot of features, and structured content is not always intuitive. Many content authors who use Drupal for content management think the experience of authoring structured content is technical. It is important to demonstrate, train, and document this experience because content authors may change over time.

Important note

Do not forget about roles and permissions when looking at the experiences of content authors. It can be immensely helpful to have deliberate roles for authors or even different roles for authors who may be responsible for different content in the Drupal application.

The experience of authoring in Drupal can rapidly become better just by removing permissions for activities they do not need to do. This can remove specific administrative actions, such as managing Drupal projects, managing Drupal configuration, and viewing system logs. Roles...