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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

Taxonomy

One of the most powerful features of Drupal is the taxonomy system.

The word taxonomy comes from the ancient Greek word meaning 'the practice and science of the classification of things.

Consider a real-world example where Drupal might be used to manage, search, and display your music collection. It would be very useful to be able to categorize tracks within, for example, genre, because that way you could easily filter the entire collection down to say "soul" or "disco". Moreover, if you categorize the music tempo to say "slow", "medium", and "upbeat", then preparing a playlist of slow soul tracks would be simple just as you probably routinely do when using a dedicated organizer such as iTunes.

Thus, Drupal's taxonomy system is simply a means of enabling you to classify your content in many different ways.

The core taxonomy system allows you to define one or more vocabularies, each of which is a list of terms. For example...

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