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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

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While we revisited some common theming techniques, we also learned a few new ones. Slowly and methodically dissecting each section of our mockup, we walked through creating Twig templates, and worked with the new Comment field and a lot more to create a fully functional Blog detail page. We definitely covered a lot of material, so let's review everything we covered before moving on to the next chapter:

  • We started by reviewing the Blog Detail mockup to identify key areas of our website that we would need to recreate.

  • We familiarized ourselves with additional node templates and learned how to theme the default display of our Post content type.

  • We dug a little deeper into the new Comment type and learned how to best manage the various Twig templates it provides. This included managing user profile pictures for each comment thread and configuring date and time formats for the comment created date.

  • Finally, we implemented social sharing buttons using our themes octo.libraries.yml file, attaching...

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