Site administrators

Beginning Drupal 8 teaches you how to build, maintain, and manage Drupal 8-based web sites. The book covers using Drupal when building a new web site, what Drupal is, installing and configuring Drupal, creating and managing content, managing users, adding functionality to your web site through Drupal modules, and more advanced topics on using themes, panels, and views. The book also builds practical examples of common Drupal sites, such as a company website, a community website, and a commerce website, that you can take and expand on to create your own Drupal 8 sites.

By reading this book, you will understand the power of the Drupal platform, and why you should be using Drupal if you're not already. Through following the samples in the book, you will quickly build your confidence and your ability to use Drupal. Beginning Drupal 8 gives you the knowledge necessary to build, deploy, and manage web sites of moderate complexity on Drupal 8.

What you’ll learn

• What Drupal is and why you should use it
• How to install a basic Drupal web site from scratch
• How to create content in your new Drupal web site
• How to manage users on your new Drupal web site
• How to change the look and feel of your new Drupal web site through themes
• How to install and configure modules

Who this book is for

This book is for nontechnical users who need to use Drupal 8 to manage content, as well as developers who are new to Drupal 8.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction to Drupal
2. Creating and Managing Content
3. Creating and Managing Users
4. Creating and Using Taxonomy
5. Creating Content Types
6. Creating and Using Views
7. Creating and Using Page Payouts
8. Creating and Using Menus
9. Creating and Using Blocks
10. Theming Your Site
11. Making Your Site Responsive
12. Extending Your Site Through Contributed Modules
13. The Anatomy of a Module
14. Using Multilingual
15. Administering Your Drupal Site
16. Using Drush
17. Using Git
18. Putting It All Together
19. Building a Blog Site
20. Building a Company Website
21. Building a Community Website
22. Building a Commerce Website

App A: Modules
App B: Learn More

Drush for Developers, Second Edition, takes common challenges in Drupal projects and solves them using Drush. This book starts with the different installation approaches for Drush and its command structure. It then moves on to perhaps the trickiest challenge in Drupal projects: keeping code and configuration together during a project's lifetime. Next, we will deep dive into the tasks needed to keep a website under control and learn how to run, automate, and monitor them effectively.

Error validating and debugging our Drush commands is a must and this book has a whole chapter on that topic. The magic of managing remote Drupal projects through Drush site aliases is explained in the following chapters through a practical example. Finally, the book wraps up by putting in practice all the concepts covered in previous chapters in order to implement a development workflow for a team.

With all the complex configuration options of Drupal, the Configuration Management system allows you to keep track of your configuration and move configuration changes between several development environments with ease. Its API allows you to add your own configuration settings within a custom module.

Drupal 8 Configuration Management will teach you everything you need to know about the Configuration Management system and get you started with using its features quickly, whether you are a Drupal site administrator with no programming knowledge or a seasoned developer. Starting at defining what Configuration Management actually means and why you should be using it, the book also covers how site administrators can make the most out of it without any programming knowledge. For more advanced users with programming skills, the book explains how to use the API to add custom configuration and how to upgrade custom modules to use the new Configuration Management. The book also covers some essential tools and best practices.

After reading the book, you will be able to write schema files for custom configurations, make use of the Configuration Management API, and upgrade modules to the new Configuration Management systems. Additionally, you will learn how to migrate configuration from Drupal 6 and 7 to Drupal 8 and how to manage configuration for multilingual websites.

The Intermediate level complements the beginner level. It is aimed at people who already had previous contact with Drupal and want to understand it in depth and make better use of its full potential. Completing this level is very useful for building professional Websites with features that go far beyond company webs or personal blogs. Programming knowledge is not required to study intermediate level.

Contents:

• 21. Creating forms with Webform
• 22. Advanced content types
• 23. Views
• 24. Automatic image processing
• 25. Extending menus with additional modules
• 26. Extending blocks with additional modules
• 27. Panels
• 28. Display Suite
• 29. Customizing Themes
• 30. Actions and Triggers
• 31. Rules
• 32. Defining contexts
• 33. Extending users
• 34. Workflow
• 35. Multilingual sites
• 36. E-commerce: Introduction to Ubercart and Drupal Commerce
• 37. SEO Positioning with Drupal
• 38. Social tools: voting and sharing content
• 39. Newsletter Subscription
• 40. Other Features

Beginner level is aimed at those people with or without technical training, who want to start creating Websites. It is also very useful for companies or professionals who wish to create their professional or personal Website without depending on external assistance. At this level, the aim is for the student to acquire sound basic knowledge in order to tackle the following educational levels with guarantees.

Contents:

• 1. Introduction to Drupal
• 2. Drupal installation
• 3. Administration area
• 4. Content management
• 5. Content types
• 6. Menu management
• 7. Blocks management
• 8. Themes
• 9. Extending functionality with modules
• 10. Management of users, roles and permissions
• 11. Taxonomy
• 12. Text formats and WYSIWYG editors
• 13. Blogs
• 14. Forums
• 15. Structured documents: Books
• 16. Media Galleries
• 17. Searches
• 18. Languages and translation
• 19. Access statistics
• 20. Website management, maintenance and updating
• Annex A. Configuration of the hosting and necessary tools
• Annex B. Links and resources of interest