Chapter 7. Plug and Play with Plugins
In this chapter, we will dive into the new Plugin API provided in Drupal 8:
- Creating blocks using plugins
- Creating a custom field type
- Creating a custom field widget
- Creating a custom field formatter
- Creating a custom plugin type
Introduction
Drupal 8 introduces plugins. Plugins power many items in Drupal, such as blocks, field types, field formatters, and many more. Plugins and plugin types are provided by modules. They provide a swappable and specific functionality. Breakpoints, as discussed in Chapter 5, Front End for the Win, are plugins. In this chapter, we will discuss how plugins work in Drupal 8 and show you how to create blocks, fields, and custom plugin types.
Each version of Drupal has had subsystems, which ...
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