Learning Drupal 8

Prepare your local system to run Drupal 8 by installing an AMP stack and using Acquia Dev Desktop to create a local site and database.

Explore how Drupal 8 delivers out-of-the-box content with articles and basic pages, including images with alt text, time-sensitive content, and simple menu integration.

Enable trusted host settings in Drupal by using the status report and editing settings.php to configure the trusted host pattern and secure the local site.

Create basic page content in Drupal using three methods, with menu links and path aliases. Compare how these pages render differently from articles, including published and unpublished states.

Learn how Drupal's content revisions work, including creating new revisions, logging changes, and comparing versions with the diff module to safely manage drafts and published pages.

Identify how Drupal blocks function as Lego-like components, learn to create and place custom blocks or ones from modules, menus, and views, and manage regions via block layout.

Create and manage custom blocks in Drupal 8, using semantic markup for quotes and embed codes, assign them to the left sidebar, and adjust block weight.

Block management lets you place content chunks anywhere, set visibility and regions, and create instances of blocks, which can be custom or automatically generated by views, menus, or core blocks.

Discover how content types in Drupal 8 shape site content by customizing fields, forms, and display; compare articles and basic pages, promote to front page, and extend with modules.

Modify the article content type in Drupal 8 by adding a photo credit field and removing menu placement from the node form to protect site integrity.

Explore how to customize a Drupal content type’s form display by reordering fields and selecting widgets, then tailor the public view with teaser and display modes.

Learn how to add a telephone number field to the event content type, enabling click-to-call on mobile and semantic markup for accessibility and display as a linked phone number.

Explore how Drupal 8 handles content types, customize module-provided types like article, page, forum topic, and event, add fields such as telephone and date time, and configure display settings.

Discover how Drupal views turn content into configurable lists, from the home page river of news to content and user lists with exposed filters.

Configure view filters in drupal 8 to show only published events with images, using criteria like publishing status, event content type, and image not empty, and save changes.

Learn to use the views user interface to set sort criteria for upcoming events. Sort by event date and sticky status so the next event appears first.

Create a block display in Drupal views to list the next three upcoming events, showing title and date, with per-block overrides, no pager, and a more link.

Learn to customize a Drupal 8 views block by rendering the title as an h3 header, formatting the event date with a 12-hour clock, and using overrides for semantic markup.

Learn to use display modes and fields in Drupal 8 to control content rendering, clone blocks for experimentation, and apply a sample event display mode.

Learn how to add an RSS feed display to the upcoming events view in Drupal 8, configure the path and title, adjust sorting, and attach the feed for third-party syndication.