Drupal 8
Creating a Blog in Drupal 8 &
Configuration API
January 24, 2014
SANDCamp 2014
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Bob Kepford
Sr. Drupal Developer
Mediacurrent
@kepford
@mediacurrent
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What’s New
• Fields
• HTML 5
• Better Content Editing
• Display & Form Modes
• Mobile
• Views
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• Accessibility
• Better Multi-language
support
• CMI
• Web Services
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Fields
Comments are now fields
New field types
• Entity Reference
• Link
• Email
• Telephone
• Placeholders
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HTML 5
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New elements
• Picture element: Support
for responsive image displays
• Date element
• E-mail element
• Phone element
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Content Editing
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• CKEditor WYSIWYG
• In-place editing
• Insert inline images
• Save as draft
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Form & Display Modes
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• Customize entity forms
• Create and manage view modes for all
entities
• Replaces Entity view modes module
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Mobile
• Responsive themes
• Admin theme is mobile
friendly
• Mobile toolbar
• Overlay is gone!
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Views
Views is in core!
• Very minor differences in Drupal 8
• Embed Display
• Entity Reference Display
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Configuration
API
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Look Ma, No
Features
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Full Export/
Import
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Single Export/
Import
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Synchronization
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Diff
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Directories
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Active/Staging
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YAML
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Active Directory
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Custom Directory Location
settings.php
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Thank You!
Questions?
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