A comprehensive guide for beginners to get started with Drupal 10 to learn key concepts including building, installing, maintaining, managing content, and advanced topics with real-world examples and use cases
Key Features
- Deep dive into Drupal 10 concepts and learn how to engage with Drupal open-source community
- Build Drupal applications using powerful features like structured content, media, views, and displays
- Learn to create modules and themes with metadata, hooks, and Drupal’s plugins for customization
Book Description
Drupal has a steep learning curve because of its vast ecosystem and beginners often find it difficult to get up and running with Drupal development.
Looking to break into Drupal with hands-on knowledge? Then this book is for you.
In this book, you'll gain a thorough knowledge of the Drupal framework by understanding its core concepts including its technical architecture, frontend, backend, and Drupal 10 new features. After you are acquainted with the required knowledge, you will now bootstrap and install your first project and learn to configure and maintain it.
Progressively, you'll build your project's core strengths such as content structures, multilingual, authentic user role allocation, Drupal 10 views, search, modules, themes, and static assets with media. You’ll also understand and effectively harness the power of Drupal's robust content management with layout builders, blocks, and layouts.
Toward the end, you'll learn prominent tools such as Git, Drush, Composer, CLI, DevOps to manage your Drupal application. You'll also explore advanced use cases on content migration, SEO, and multi-site implementation to extend your application’s capabilities.
By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to build a successful Drupal application, and who knows, maybe you’ll even contribute to the Drupal community!
What you will learn
- Understand Drupal’s architecture and infrastructure dependencies
- Learn to bootstrap, install and configure your first Drupal project
- Maintain Drupal with updates, automation, and DevOps practices
- Build Drupal features for example multilingual, content searches, views, search
- Understand content management and how to effectively put it into action
- Explore advanced topics such as Git, Drush, DevOps, CLI and Composer
- Learn advanced use cases on migration, many site management, Drupal development framework extension
Who This Book Is For
If you are a CMS professional new to Drupal and want to learn all the aspects of Drupal to build and maintain Drupal websites then this book is for you. You are not expected to have hands-on experience with Drupal however having foundational knowledge in CMS development would be beneficial to get the most out of this book.
Table of Contents
- What is Drupal?
- Core, Contributed, and Custom Projects (Modules, Themes)
- Infrastructure and Overview of Technical Architecture
- Drupal Terminology
- What is new in Drupal 10?
- Bootstrapping, installing, and configuring a new Drupal project
- Maintaining Drupal
- Content Structures and Multilingual
- Users, Roles, and Permissions
- Developing Drupal Views and Display Modes
- Managing Static Assets
- Building Search in Drupal
- User Engagement with Contact Forms
- Managing Content and Media
- Visual Content Management
- Moderated content with workflows
- Git, Drush, Composer, CLI, and DevOps
- Extending Drupal with its development framework
- SEO practices
- Delivering Drupal content through APIs
- Migrating content into Drupal
- Many site management with Drupal
Adam Bergstein is a product engineering leader and an architect. He has been a long-time Drupal community member and a routine speaker at Drupal community events throughout the globe and has provided keynotes for several events. He has maintained and contributed to many Drupal projects, including Password Policy, Taxonomy Menu, and more. Adam is the lead of Simplytest, a free service, and a project that offers Drupal community members testing sandboxes. He has also worked for both agencies building Drupal applications and Drupal service providers building Drupal-related products. He has led the Drupal community Governance Task Force and is serving a term as a community board member of the Drupal Association
