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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

Reviewing the new info.yml file


The Info.yml file is required when creating any theme. It helps notify Drupal that a theme exists and provides information to the Appearance interface that a theme is available to install. We will be working with *.info.yml files when creating our first theme, so let's take a look at the makeup of a basic example.info.yml file:

name: Example
description: 'An Example theme.'
type: theme
package: Custom
base theme: classy
core: 8.x

libraries:
  - example/global-styling

regions:
  header: Header
  primary_menu: 'Primary menu'
  secondary_menu: 'Secondary menu'
  page_top: 'Page top'
  page_bottom: 'Page bottom'
  highlighted: Highlighted
  breadcrumb: Breadcrumb
  content: Content
  sidebar_first: 'Sidebar first'
  sidebar_second: 'Sidebar second'
  footer: 'Footer'

At first glance, the example.info.yml file is logical in structure and syntax. Starting from the top and moving our way down, the file is broken down by different sections of metadata containing general...

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