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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 digital assets

Chapter 11 highlights Drupal’s capabilities for managing digital assets. In that chapter, the three primary constructs were presented: files, images, and media. All three features offer slightly different experiences for content authors.

Given that entities have customizable fields, digital assets can be associated with an entity. Consider a banner image on a node. Alone, it may not be clear where that image is rendered in the Drupal application. At a high level, the motivation behind the file, image, and media field types was to incorporate digital assets into structured content. The general structure content editing experience is effectively demonstrated in Figure 14.6, but there is more nuance for each type of digital asset.

The following figure shows the experience of an editing form that has each of the three digital asset field types:

Figure 14.8 – Field widgets for files, images, and media

Figure 14.8 – Field widgets for files, images, and media

Figure 14.8...