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Drupal 8 Blueprints

You're reading from   Drupal 8 Blueprints Step along the creation of 7 professional-grade Drupal sites

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785887567
Length 262 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (8) Chapters Close

1. Introduction and Getting Set Up 2. Telling Your Own Story with Drupal FREE CHAPTER 3. Get Fundraising with Drupal 4. Recruit Using Drupal 5. List Properties with Drupal 6. Express Your Event with Drupal 7. Get Teaching with Drupal 8. Go Static with Drupal

Getting started

So, as per our previous chapters, we will use a clean Drupal install.

This time, let's install it using Minimal installation profile, and build up what we want from a lighter setup.

Fig 1.0: Clean Minimal Drupal installation

Once we have set up and logged into Drupal, you will see that its look is plain (Fig 1.0) and minimal, and it is a great installation profile for simple websites that don't require much functionality.

This usually tends to be when we decouple Drupal or make it headless, which is another popular term used. We will cover this in the last chapter.

You will also notice that there is no navigation. To get to our modules page, either go to /admin/modules or click Administration and then click Extend.

It's so plain here. In fact, we only get 10 modules enabled. They are as follows:

  • Block
  • Database Logging
  • Field
  • Filter
  • Node
  • System
  • ...
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