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Drupal 8 Blueprints

You're reading from Drupal 8 Blueprints Step along the creation of 7 professional-grade Drupal sites

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785887567

Length 262 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Drupal

Concepts

Ecommerce

Author (1):

Burrows

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Introduction and Getting Set Up FREE CHAPTER

Setting up for local development

2. Telling Your Own Story with Drupal

3. Get Fundraising with Drupal

What will we learn?

4. Recruit Using Drupal

5. List Properties with Drupal

6. Express Your Event with Drupal

7. Get Teaching with Drupal

8. Go Static with Drupal

Chapter 2. Telling Your Own Story with Drupal

Latest news is an important part of any website for many businesses. They allow the business to engage with their customers and keep their employees updated. In this chapter, we will create a simple news website using Drupal 8 core functionality. This can also be used as a blog; we're just making it sound exciting and relatable.

This chapter will be a little more in depth in showing how the basic functionality of Drupal works; this will allow quicker development later throughout the book.

We will explore the following topics in the chapter:

Creating a new content type
Creating taxonomy terms and associating them to news posts
Using custom views to display the listing and individual news pages
Enabling a comment field to allow user comments
Referencing other news articles on the site
Setting up restricted articles
Understanding permissions and roles
Configuring the editor experience

We will learn how to create a content type and implement the fields required...

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Authors (1)

Burrows

Burrows

Alex Burrows is a web developer who specializes in Drupal and is based in Surrey, UK. He is the technical director of a UK-based agency called Digidrop, also based in Surrey, UK. He set up Digidrop with his best friend, Matthias, in 2017, and the company is growing fast. He has worked with Drupal since 2008 and has worked on some well-known brands and large-scale projects; he is also very active within the Drupal community and attends every European and North American Drupalcon, where he is a mentor as well. He is also one of the directors of Drupalcamp London CIC, which has been running since 2013, and he has been involved in the organization and its running since the beginning. Each year, it is becoming a bigger, better, and more popular event, and it has been marked as the second biggest Drupalcamp in the world.

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