Chapter 11. Extending and Customizing Your Site

Overview of site customization and development. Tasks on downloading modules and themes are covered.

Part of the Drupal 8 User Guide.

11.1. Finding Modules

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How to search and evaluate modules on Drupal.org.

11.2. Enabling and Disabling Maintenance Mode

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How to enable maintenance mode to set up a "Site under maintenance" message, and how to disable it.

11.3. Downloading and Installing a Module from Drupal.org

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How to download and install a module from Drupal.org (using the user interface) or by using Drush.

11.4. Finding Themes

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How to use filters to search themes and evaluate them.

11.5. Downloading and Installing a Theme from Drupal.org

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How to download and install a theme from Drupal.org or by using Drush.

11.6. Manually Downloading Module or Theme Files

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How to manually download and upload a module or theme.

11.7. Concept: Development Sites

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Overview of development sites with an example deployment workflow for site building.

11.8. Making a Development Site

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How to make a copy of a live site for development purposes.

11.9. Using Composer and Git to Download Files

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How to use the Composer and Git tools to manage the files in the core software and add-on modules and themes.

11.10. Deploying New Site Features

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How to copy a view created in a local development site to a production site.

11.11. Synchronizing Configuration Versions

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How to synchronize the configuration between a development and live site using the core Configuration Manager module.