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Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

You're reading from   Drupal 8 Theming with Twig Master Drupal 8's new Twig templating engine to create fun and fast websites with simple steps to help you move from concept to completion

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782168737
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chaz Chumley Chaz Chumley
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up Our Development Environment 2. Theme Administration FREE CHAPTER 3. Dissecting a Theme 4. Getting Started – Creating Themes 5. Prepping Our Project 6. Theming Our Homepage 7. Theming Our Interior Page 8. Theming Our Blog Listing Page 9. Theming Our Blog Detail Page 10. Theming Our Contact Page 11. Theming Our Search Results 12. Tips, Tricks, and Where to Go from Here Index

Implementing our Header Top region


The first item we will need to address is replacing the static content in our Header Top region. Referring back to the Mockup, we have a menu of social icons that display within this region. Also, if we look closely, each social icon is using the Font Awesome library. Tackling the next section will require the following techniques:

  1. First, we will create a custom block to display our Social Icons menu and then assign it to the Header Top region so that it is available to render.

  2. Next, we will add the Font Awesome library for our social icon to use.

  3. Finally, we will modify our static content to display our Header Top region.

Creating our Social Icons block

Creating blocks of content is fairly simple, and we will be doing this often as we recreate each section of our theme. We will start by navigating to the Block layout page at /admin/structure/block and following these nine steps:

  1. Click on the Place block button in the Header Top region.

  2. Click on the Add custom...

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