Key Features
- Real-world recipes on Drupal administration to give you practical and actionable knowledge.
- Take the leap to become a professional administrator with Drupal 8 with this Cookbook.
- Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible.
Book Description
Drupal is one of the most trusted and widely used CMS frameworks. Drupal 8 is the latest, greatest release of the world's most widely used enterprise web CMS. It's fast, flexible and a complete web development framework.
This book allows you to administer and manage the Drupal 8 ecosystem and also the apps created with it. It begins with custom set up of Drupal 8 and configuring it as per your development requirements. You will then perform basic administration tasks such as adding, editing and deleting users. Further, you will utilize the default options and modules that Drupal 8 provides and also use contributed modules/plugins to extend Drupal 8 to perform the necessary tasks.
You will then see how to keep your site up to date by using version control with proper updates as exportable. Moving on, you will optimize your website for your mobile device and integrate your website with social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter. You will integrate payment gateway in your website and using secure messaging and ensuring safe transactions. Lastly, you will learn some troubleshooting techniques to deal with issues that arise when administering a Drupal 8 website.
By the end of the book, you will learn all the recipes that optimizes your sites performance and helps you to administer and manage your website.
What you will learn
- Manage users, permissions, and content in Drupal 8
- Utilize Drupal 8's default options and modules to perform some fairly advanced tasks.
- Accomplish common goals featured on majority of websites by utilizing Drupal modules and plugins.
- Push updates live into productions that will keep your site online for years at a time.
- Secure your site by adding and configuring the necessary modules.
- Explore Drupal in various mobile scenarios such as theme detection and data to/from android/ios.
- Manage a Drupal 8 website with multiple languages
- Migrate data in or out of Drupal 8 to communicate with 3rd party systems
- Ensure a Drupal site is compatible with more advanced external services
- Troubleshoot common tasks and issues when administering a Drupal 8 website
About the Author
Matthew Lechleider is a product of the Nintendo Generation. He has spent 10 - 15 hours online every day since before the Internet was cool. He enjoys speaking at conferences, skateboarding, music festivals, Linux and Drupal. Founding the Chicago Drupal Meet Up Group and organizing hundreds of Drupal events (plus several Drupal conferences worldwide) was some of his early achievements in open source. Matthew’s role as organization admin for Drupal's initiatives for Google Summer of Code and Code-In keeps him busy, but his full time job is being President/CEO for an open source web development company Lechleider Mitchell LLC managing some of the biggest Drupal websites in the word.
Lee Mitchell is the other half of Lechleider Mitchell LLC and is an expert in PHP developer with a specialization in open source system administration. Lee is the CTO of multiple software startups all of which are based on several years of phenomenal Drupal projects. When Lee finds free time away from work and his family of three children he enjoys designing firmware for audio hardware.
