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Mastering Drupal 8

You're reading from Mastering Drupal 8 An advanced guide to building and maintaining Drupal websites

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785885976

Length 456 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Drupal

Concepts

Ecommerce

Authors (3):

Sean Montague

Chaz Chumley

William Hurley

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Reviewer

Customer Feedback

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Preface

1. Developer Workflow FREE CHAPTER

2. Site Configuration

3. Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions

4. Content Types, Taxonomy, and Comment Types

5. Working with Blocks

6. Content Authoring, HTML5, and Media

7. Understanding Views

8. Theming Essentials

9. Working with Twig

10. Extending Drupal

11. Working with Forms and the Form API

12. RESTful Services

13. Multilingual Capabilities

14. Configuration Management

15. Site Migration

16. Debugging and Profiling

Exploring the Custom block library

One difference from Drupal 7 is that block content can no longer be directly edited by selecting an edit link from a context menu or by clicking on an Edit button on the Block layout page. Drupal 8 introduced a new section known as the Custom block library.

We can navigate to the Custom block library by directly entering /admin/structure/block/block-content, or by using the Admin toolbar and clicking on Structure | Block layout and then selecting the Custom block library tab.

The Custom block library page consists of two sub-sections:

The Blocks tab displays all custom blocks that have been created. Each block is listed by Block description, Block type, and last updated date
The Block types tab displays all block types that have been created. Each block type is listed by the type and description

We will take a closer look at each section beginning with the Blocks tab. It is this section where we will be able to Edit and Delete custom blocks that have been created...

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Authors (3)

Sean Montague

Sean Montague

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Chaz Chumley

Chaz Chumley

Chaz Chumley, ever since Chaz can remember, he has been picking up a crayon, a pencil, a pen, or a computer, whether to draw a picture, write a poem, share an article, or develop the next great website. Looking back at these qualities, it's the reason he chose to use those passions to give back to the open source community. His journey has opened doors to great experiences as a consultant, instructor, trainer, author, web developer, technical architect, Drupalist, and most importantly, a father. However, he could be none of these without first being a student and learning from life, love, and a passion for education, community development, and of course, science and technology. The sum of these things has allowed Chaz to share his experiences as an active member of the Drupal community, having participated in developing Drupal training videos, authoring multiple Drupal books for Packt Publishing, and giving back his knowledge by contributing numerous articles, training, and presentations at Design4Drupal, BadCamp, DrupalGovCon, and DrupalCon, all the while bringing topnotch Drupal expertise to his clients' work. However, his greatest journey is still in front of him as he continues to learn new creative ways to architect open source websites, write about the next best things, and laugh with his colleagues along the way.

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William Hurley

William Hurley

William Hurley, is the chief technology officer at Forum One. He is responsible for partnering with clients to develop technical recommendations that truly serve their organizational needs. He received a bachelor's degree from George Mason University's department of computer science. He's also a culinary aficionado, and he has a notably soft spot for curry. William has been developing for the web since 1997 using PHP, Java, Adobe Flex, JavaScript, and ColdFusion, and brings a breadth of technical expertise to clients' most difficult digital dilemmas. William is an active member of the Drupal community. He has contributed more than 10 modules, along with patches to Drupal core and other contributed modules. With close to a hundred commits, William does his best to give back to the Drupal community.

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