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Drupal 8 Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Drupal 8 Quick Start Guide Get up and running with Drupal 8

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789340310
Length 128 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Design improvements


Next, let's take our list and consider the deficiencies and what can be done to remedy them. 

Too much content!

Drupal is a content management system, of course, but that doesn't mean that all the content should be on the home page. It becomes too long and cluttered. It's better to show only one complete piece or a small number of teasers.

There is a view that provides the selection of content for the home page. Its default behavior is to include all content that has been promoted by checking its Promote to front page checkbox. So, we could limit the number of pieces displayed by limiting the number of those promoted. Let's be a little more creative.

We will limit the teaser to the most recent piece of promoted content and create a block that offers the others as a list of links.

No access to content

This is the opposite problem of the first one. If we're going to show the most recent piece of content, and a handful of others in a list, what about the content that is older...

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