Drupal 8 User Guide Drupal 8 User Guide Table of Contents i. Preface ...................................................................................................................................... vi i.1. Copyright ....................................................................................................................... vi i.2. Audience and Goal ....................................................................................................... vi i.3. Organization ................................................................................................................. vii i.4. Reporting Problems .................................................................................................... viii i.5. Conventions of the Guide ............................................................................................ ix i.6. Guiding Scenario ........................................................................................................... xi 1. Understanding Drupal ............................................................................................................ 1 1.1. Concept: Drupal as a Content Management System ............................................... 1 1.2. Concept: Modules ......................................................................................................... 3 1.3. Concept: Themes .......................................................................................................... 4 1.4. Concept: Distributions ................................................................................................. 5 1.5. Concept: Types of Data ............................................................................................... 6 1.6. Concept: The Drupal Project ....................................................................................... 6 1.7. Concept: Drupal Licensing .......................................................................................... 8 2. Planning Your Site ................................................................................................................. 10 2.1. Concept: Regions in a Theme ................................................................................... 10 2.2. Planning Your Site Layout ......................................................................................... 11 2.3. Concept: Content Entities and Fields ....................................................................... 13 2.4. Concept: Modular Content ........................................................................................ 15 2.5. Planning your Content Structure ............................................................................. 16 2.6. Concept: Editorial Workflow ...................................................................................... 19 3. Installation .............................................................................................................................. 21 3.1. Concept: Server Requirements ................................................................................. 21 3.2. Concept: Additional Tools .......................................................................................... 22 3.3. Preparing to Install .................................................................................................... 24 3.4. Running the Installer ................................................................................................. 27 4. Basic Site Configuration ....................................................................................................... 33 4.1. Concept: Administrative Overview ........................................................................... 33 4.2. Editing Basic Site Information .................................................................................. 36 4.3. Installing a Module .................................................................................................... 39 4.4. Uninstalling Unused Modules ................................................................................... 40 4.5. Configuring User Account Settings .......................................................................... 42 4.6. Configuring the Theme ............................................................................................. 44 5. Basic Page Management ...................................................................................................... 49 5.1. Concept: Paths, Aliases, and URLs ........................................................................... 49 5.2. Creating a Content Item ............................................................................................ 50 5.3. Editing a Content Item .............................................................................................. 52 5.4. Editing with the In-Place Editor ................................................................................ 54 5.5. Designating a Front Page for your Site ................................................................... 55 5.6. Concept: Menu ........................................................................................................... 56 5.7. Adding a Page to the Navigation ............................................................................. 58 5.8. Changing the Order of Navigation ........................................................................... 60 6. Setting Up Content Structure .............................................................................................. 63 6.1. Adding a Content Type .............................................................................................. 63 6.2. Deleting a Content Type ............................................................................................ 67 iii Drupal 8 User Guide 6.3. Adding Basic Fields to a Content Type .................................................................... 69 6.4. Concept: Reference Fields ......................................................................................... 74 6.5. Concept: Taxonomy .................................................................................................... 75 6.6. Setting Up a Taxonomy ............................................................................................. 76 6.7. Adding a Reference Field .......................................................................................... 81 6.8. Concept: Forms and Widgets .................................................................................... 84 6.9. Changing Content Entry Forms ................................................................................ 84 6.10. Concept: View Modes and Formatters ................................................................... 87 6.11. Changing Content Display ...................................................................................... 88 6.12. Concept: Image Styles ............................................................................................. 92 6.13. Setting Up an Image Style ...................................................................................... 93 6.14. Concept: Responsive Image Styles ......................................................................... 96 6.15. Concept: Text Formats and Editors ........................................................................ 97 6.16. Configuring Text Formats and Editors ................................................................... 98 7. Managing User Accounts ................................................................................................... 100 7.1. Concept: Users, Roles, and Permissions ................................................................ 100 7.2. Concept: The User 1 Account ................................................................................. 101 7.3. Creating a Role ......................................................................................................... 102 7.4. Creating a User Account ......................................................................................... 104 7.5. Assigning Permissions to a Role ............................................................................ 107 7.6. Changing a User’s Roles .......................................................................................... 109 7.7. Assigning Authors to Content ................................................................................ 111 8. Blocks .................................................................................................................................... 114 8.1. Concept: Blocks ........................................................................................................ 114 8.2. Creating A Custom Block ........................................................................................ 114 8.3. Placing a Block in a Region ..................................................................................... 117 9. Creating Listings with Views .............................................................................................. 120 9.1. Concept: Uses of Views ........................................................................................... 120 9.2. Concept: The Parts of a View .................................................................................. 121 9.3. Creating a Content List View .................................................................................. 123 9.4. Duplicating a View ..................................................................................................