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Mastering Drupal 8

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785885976
Length 456 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chaz Chumley Chaz Chumley
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William Hurley William Hurley
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Sean Montague Sean Montague
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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 Drupal's interface


By default, Drupal has two interfaces we can work with. The first is what any visitor to our site will see, consisting of content and blocks displayed in various regions on the page. This is often referred to as the anonymous user's view:

The second interface, known as the administrator interface, requires us to be logged in to a Drupal instance. We can log in by clicking on the login link or by navigating to /user/login and entering the user credentials that were created when Drupal was first installed:

Once logged in we are considered to be authenticated and, since we are logged in as User one, which is the Super User, we are also considered to be an administrator and are presented with an Admin toolbar.

The Admin toolbar itself is separated into three different functional areas: Manage, Shortcuts, and admin. Each of these sections organize the functionality based on the tasks that need to be performed, which include everything from managing content, providing...

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