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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

Blocks and custom block types

Beyond content types, Drupal offers a second fieldable content entity known as blocks. Where a content type renders as its page, a block can be rendered on one or more pages tied to a theme region.

Managing blocks

Out of the box, Drupal comes with many different blocks. Blocks help render menus, content in the header, content in the footer, and much more.

Block management can be found at admin/structure/block. The following figure shows the centralized management screen in Drupal:

Figure 15.1 – Central block management administrative screen

Figure 15.1 – Central block management administrative screen

Figure 15.1 demonstrates block placement. There are tabs at the top for each enabled theme. A block can be placed by pressing the Place block button for the region of the theme. This button prompts a modal window that contains the entire block catalog. The modal also provides the option to create a custom block, if needed. Placed blocks can also be moved between regions...