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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

Working with templates

Templates help provide variables inside of HTML markup to define the rendering of content in Drupal. The following sections outline how to work with templates.

How to find and create templates

One of the first things you’ll need to do is figure out what template to use and create. You can find current templates that enable Twig Debug (which we talked about earlier) at /admin/config/development/settings.

Doing so will tell Drupal to output HTML comments in the markup that indicate what templates are in use, and what templates are available. Note that your theme’s templates (except Single Directory Components) will reside in the theme’s /templates directory.

Figure 19.4 – Template suggestions in rendered HTML comments

Figure 19.4 – Template suggestions in rendered HTML comments

In the preceding example, you can see under FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: that six items are listed, with X next to the last (node.html.twig). This means that node.html.twig is in use, and...