Chapter 2. The Content Authoring Experience

In this chapter we will explore what Drupal 8 brings to the content authoring experience:

  • Configuring the WYSIWYG editor
  • Adding and editing content
  • Creating a menu and linking content
  • Providing inline editing
  • Creating a custom content type
  • Applying new Drupal 8 core field types
  • Customizing the form display of a node
  • Customizing the display output of a node

Introduction

In this chapter we'll cover the Drupal 8 content authoring experience. We will show you how to configure text formats and set up the bundled CKEditor that ships with Drupal 8. We will look at how to add and manage content, along with utilizing menus for linking to content. Drupal 8 ships with inline editing for per-field modifications from the front-end. ...

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