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Drupal 10 Masterclass

By : Adam Bergstein
Book Image

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

Basic configuration

Site builders are often afforded robust configuration options that allow Drupal to be extensible while not having to get into code.

Post-installation configuration

During Drupal’s installation, the administrator is asked to select an installation profile during one of the steps. This profile enables a pre-defined set of modules and loads a default configuration. It is common to change the default configuration, especially for common use cases, like:

  • Application notifications email address, like who gets notified when updates exist
  • Enabling caching of pages
  • User registration settings, like open registration, invite-only, and closed
  • Updating the default logging mechanism
  • Enabling or disabling of core modules, like translation, web services, or various field types for your content structures
  • Enabling or disabling of comments on out-of-the-box content types

Another useful starting point is the module listing page found...