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Learning Drupal 8

You're reading from   Learning Drupal 8 Create complex websites quickly and easily using the building blocks of Drupal 8, the most powerful version of Drupal yet

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782168751
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nick Abbott Nick Abbott
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Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Installation 3. Basic Concepts 4. Getting Started with the UI 5. Basic Content 6. Structure 7. Advanced Content 8. Configuration 9. Users and Access Control 10. Optional Features 11. Reports 12. Extending Drupal 13. Theming Drupal 14. Getting Support Index

Development


The development section has a number of screens and settings that are most useful when you are building your website and less so once it is live. The settings here are often different between development and going into production. Some of these settings will be changed just before a site goes into production.

Performance

The performance settings page has two subsections that perform distinctly different functions.

Caching

For anonymous visitors to your website, it's very common for each visit to a specific page to return the same generated HTML.

Depending on the complexity of the page, Drupal will have to make many calls to the database to collect all of the data it needs to assemble the page view. If the page is always the same, it is wasted effort to reassemble it every time someone requests the page. Therefore, we can specify that the generated page output is cached for a certain period of time.

This means that subsequent visitors to the same page will receive it more quickly and...

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