Drupal 8 Developer Fundamental Training - DC

The procedures throughout the week are introduced step-by-step and then reinforced with practice and challenges. You'll build multiple sites and themes to meet the needs of a client and reflect on your own experience to take the procedures you learn back into your own work and any new situations you encounter.

Course Outline

Site Building Day 1

Under the Hood of a Simple Website

• Setting up a local environment

Getting Started

• What is Drupal?
• What Features Does Drupal 8 Offer?
• Important Drupal Terminology
• Drupal 8 Administration Toolbar

Content Types and Content Modeling

• Structured Content Types
• Custom Content Types and Fields
• Categorize Content with Taxonomy
• Understanding Content Workflows

User Roles and Permissions

• Creating Roles and Assigning Permissions
• Account Registration Settings
• The Authenticated User Registration Form
• Creating a Content Editor Account via Administrator

Site Building Day 2

Building What Appears on the Page

• Page Layouts with Blocks
• Custom Blocks
• Building Dynamic Lists of Content with Views
• Views Displays
• Custom URL Aliases
• Configuration Synchronization

Building Complex Views

• Contextual Filters
• Relationships
• Exposing Filter Options to Visitors
• Creating a View that Returns a List of Content in JSON

Fielding Entities and Managing Displays

• Review Adding Fields to a Content Type
• Adding Fields to a Content Type
• Adding Fields to a Taxonomy Term
• Adding Fields to Block Types
• Review Display Modes
• Images and Display

drupal.org and Extending Drupal

• drupal.org Community Resources
• Extending Drupal with Modules
• Using Themes

Layout & Theming Day 3

Drupal Theming Fundamentals

• How Does Drupal Theming Work?
• What are Themers?
• Making a Simple Theme
• Working with Regions
• Adding Libraries and Dependencies
• Advanced .info.yml Options
• Adding Breakpoints

Customizing Your Theme

• Anatomy of a Theme
• Coding Standards in Drupal
• Introduction to Twig Template Files
• Overrides, Available Variables, and Hooks
• Adding Custom Regions
• Breadcrumbs

Layout & Theming Day 4

Base Themes and Subtheming

• Base Themes, Subthemes, and Core Themes
• Using Subthemes
• File Inheritance

Matching a Design Mockup Using Drupal

• The Client's Design
• Enabling Twig Debugging & Installing Devel
• Creating a New Subtheme from the Classy Base Theme
• Configuring Drupal
• Using Template Overrides
• Adding CSS

Should I Take this Course?

This course is perfect for those who are:

• newly responsible for a Drupal 8 website
• planning to build a new site in Drupal 8
• preparing for delivery of a new Drupal 8 development
• looking to firm up Acquia best practice knowledge for Drupal 8 Certification

Recommended Experience

Having a basic understanding of the following technologies is helpful, but not required:

• Authoring content using a Content Management system
• Experience with Drupal's administrative interface
• Some HTML, CSS knowledge

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