Summary

At first glance, managing Basic site settings using the Drupal admin interface is quite simple. Knowing the importance of each section and why specific values should be configured will ensure that our Drupal website follows best practices. However, it is not enough to just know how to use the admin interface. We have learned that some configuration must be set using the settings.php file and that we can globally override settings contained in the database using this method.

Drush and Drupal Console provide us with the ability to inspect configuration variables, retrieve their values, and set them using the command line. In fact, using command-line interfaces such as Drush and Drupal Console allow us to accomplish a varied range of tasks, including clearing Drupal's cache, which is a task that will need to be done quite often during development.

In the next chapter, we will walk through managing users, roles, and permissions in Drupal 8. We will work more with both Drush and Drupal...