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Product type Book

Published in Dec 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837633104

Pages 310 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Adam Bergstein

Table of Contents (31) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Foundational Concepts

2. Chapter 1: What is Drupal?

3. Chapter 2: Drupal Core, Modules, and Themes

4. Chapter 3: Infrastructure and Overview of Technical Architecture

5. Chapter 4: Drupal Community

6. Chapter 5: What’s New in Drupal 10

7. Part 2:Setting up - Installing and Maintaining

8. Chapter 6: Bootstrapping, Installing, and Configuring a New Drupal Project

9. Chapter 7: Maintaining Drupal

10. Part 3:Building - Features and Configuration

11. Chapter 8: Content Structures and Multilingual

12. Chapter 9: Users, Roles, and Permissions

13. Chapter 10: Drupal Views and Display Modes

14. Chapter 11: Files, Images, and Media

15. Chapter 12: Search

16. Chapter 13: Contact Forms

17. Part 4:Using - Content Management

18. Chapter 14: Basic Content Authoring Experience

19. Chapter 15: Visual Content Management

20. Chapter 16: Content Workflows

21. Part 5:Advanced Topics

22. Chapter 17: Git, Drush, Composer, and DevOps

23. Chapter 18: Module Development

24. Chapter 19: Theme Development

25. Chapter 20: Delivering Drupal Content through APIs

26. Chapter 21: Migrating Content into Drupal

27. Chapter 22: Multisite Management

28. Index

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Appendix A - Drupal Terminology

Terminology

Importance of structured content

Drupal has long been viewed favorably for its structured content capabilities offered to site builders. So, why is this so important?

Content management went through a bit of an evolution, starting around 1995 when programming languages such as ASP and PHP were introduced. Earlier CMSs ran software that annotated, scanned, and managed content through flat files. Those flat files were either HTML or software-generated HTML. HTML would still require uploads to web servers. While this was fine for simple content updates, content would end up being duplicated.

Take a news article, for instance.. That same news article may be featured on a listing found on every page and have its page with the full article. The listing likely lists the title of the news article and maybe a teaser to lead readers in. However, the title ends up being duplicated on basically any page where the listing is displayed and on the full article. Now, imagine this at scale where...