Installing modules and themes

Drupal 8 provides more functionality out of the box than previous versions of Drupal – allowing you to do more with less. However, one of the more appealing aspects of Drupal is the ability to extend and customize.

In this recipe, we will download and enable the Honeypot module, and tell Drupal to use the Bootstrap theme. The Honeypot module provides honeypot and timestamp anti-spam measures on Drupal sites. This module helps protect forms from spam submissions. The Boostrap theme implements the Bootstrap front-end framework and supports using Bootswatch styles for theming your Drupal site.

Getting ready

If you have used Drupal previously, take note that the folder structure has changed. Modules, themes, and profiles ...

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