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Mastering Drupal 8

You're reading from   Mastering Drupal 8 An advanced guide to building and maintaining Drupal websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785885976
Length 456 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chaz Chumley Chaz Chumley
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William Hurley William Hurley
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Preface 1. Developer Workflow FREE CHAPTER 2. Site Configuration 3. Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions 4. Content Types, Taxonomy, and Comment Types 5. Working with Blocks 6. Content Authoring, HTML5, and Media 7. Understanding Views 8. Theming Essentials 9. Working with Twig 10. Extending Drupal 11. Working with Forms and the Form API 12. RESTful Services 13. Multilingual Capabilities 14. Configuration Management 15. Site Migration 16. Debugging and Profiling

Using the Place block interface


With each iteration of Drupal 8, there is additional functionality being added to the core or added as experimental modules. At the time of writing this, there is a new experimental module that allows the placing of blocks directly on to a page, which reduces some of the need for navigating back and forth to the Block layout page. Interestingly, the new module is titled Place blocks. To demonstrate how this new functionality works, we will need to enable the module.

Extending Drupal will be discussed in more detail in Chapter 10, Extending Drupal but for now, just follow along as we walk through how to quickly enable a module.

Begin by navigating to the Extend page by directly entering /admin/modules, or by using the Admin toolbar and clicking on Extend.

The Extend page lists all the modules that Drupal has access to using. Whether it is a core module or a contributed module, we can easily tell which module(s) are being used by the checkbox next to each module...

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