Back up Your Drupal Site
TopicA reliable backup will allow you to restore your site if something goes wrong.
Frontend Theming
Guide
CSS in Drupal
TopicCascading Style Sheets (CSS) files are added as an asset library through a theme’s libraries configuration file. HTML attributes, including classes and IDs, are commonly added in template files with Twig.
The Render API consists of a standard format for describing data using structured arrays and a process for converting those arrays into the HTML a user sees when interacting with a Drupal site.
Themes provide the HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other assets that are responsible for the look and feel of your site.
Twig is a template engine for PHP, which is the language used in Drupal. Twig can be used to design templates in generic PHP applications as well as Drupal themes.
Set up a local development environment to practice Drupal theme development exercises in our course, Hands-On Theming Exercises for Drupal.
By the end of this tutorial, you should be able to:
- Install Drupal on your computer, so you can edit files in your theme.
- Generate dummy content, so that you have different kinds of pages to theme.