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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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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

Creating our homepage


The next item we will move on to is creating the main homepage template. By default, Drupal uses the page.html.twig template to render any regions we have defined within our configuration. Because we broke out our Mockup into functional areas, we have a sense of what each region will contain. Our job is to recreate the homepage, which will require us to follow these basic theming techniques.

  1. First, we will take advantage of Drupal's file name suggestions to create our homepage template.

  2. Then, we will replace the contents of our template with the contents of our Mockups homepage.

  3. Finally, we will need to review the output of our new template.

Using page templates

If we inspect the homepage, it is currently using the core page.html.twig template to output content. But if we take advantage of the FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS provided, we are presented with a couple of additional choices for displaying content.

The reason we are interested in alternative templates for our homepage is...

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