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Drupal 8

Drupal 8 sets a new standard for ease of use, and allows users to create and deploy content in a whole new way.

• Mobile-first• Content looks beautiful on all devices, out

of the box.• New configuration management

• Manage site configuration via version control: export, import, share and merge.

What’s New in Drupal 8?

• A better authoring experience• Manage your content easily with the

bundled CKEditor WYSIWYG editor and the ability to edit in-place.

• Views in Core• Customize all your views—the front page,

listing blocks, admin pages, filters, and create your own custom listings without installing any additional code.

• Multilingual capabilities• Reach a global audience through

translating with built-in user interfaces

What’s New in Drupal 8?

• HTML 5 based-markup• Apply core updates quickly and with

confidence.• Built-in web services

• Use Drupal as a REST API for mobile apps, decoupled frontends, and more.

• Flexible and fast theming• Use the Twig template engine to build

beautiful sites easily and quickly.• Object-oriented programming

• Welcoming non-Drupal developers with an industry standard approach.

What’s New in Drupal 8?

• Strong accessibility features• Support for standard accessibility

technologies means optimal user experience.

Learn more about the Drupal 8 features at drupal.org/drupal-8.0.

What’s New in Drupal 8?

Drush and the Drupal Console

Drush and the Drupal Console are both command line tools that make administration and development tasks for Drupal websites much faster. In Drupal 8, these tools will improve your workflow by providing a wide arsenal of commands to speed up your ability to build and maintain sites.

Learn how to install Drupal 8 and write a module in this Introduction to Drush and Drupal Console by Greg Anderson.

The Latest in Configuration Management

Drupal 8

Configuration Management

Managing configuration is an important part of any multi-person website project. The tools available for Drupal 7 didn’t provide complete coverage of all configuration settings, but Drupal 8 has changed all of that.

Drupal 8’s new configuration management system provides complete and consistent import and export of all config settings.

Configuration Management

Git already provides facilities for managing parallel work on different branches. When conflicts occur, you can back out the conflicting changes, take just the version provided in the central repository, or if neither of these alternatives are appropriate, use three-way merge tools to examine and manually resolve each difference.

A new Drush project, config-extra, includes a config-merge command that streamlines the use of these tools.

Twig replaced PHPTemplate in Drupal 8 as its default template engine. Twig provides a lot of new functionality. It’s flexible and fast, allowing developers to create their own custom tags and filters and reduces the majority of overhead related to regular PHP code by compiling templates down to plain optimized PHP.

New Options for Frontend

TWIG Templating More Staff Time

Decoupled architecture has never been easier than with Drupal 8, which ships with a RESTful API built into Core. It lets frontend developers experiment with various javascript frameworks, iOS apps, or even other content management systems to be innovative with the UI but rely on Drupal’s powerful backend.

Decoupled Architecture

Panels and Page Manager

Drupal 8 core is great for managing lots and lots of content. Users can choose new Content types, add arbitrary Fields, and then create endless pieces of content of that type. However, when it comes to creating one-off landing pages or applying custom layouts, Panels and Page Manager are still the way to go.

Panels and Page Manager

The Panels module gives Drupal site administrators the ability to create customized layouts for various uses. Its drag and drop interface allows users to visually design a page layout and organize content within it. The architecture of Panels in Drupal 8 is largely the same as in Drupal 7, with some shifting in certain functionality and module responsibility.

Drupal 8 on Pantheon

Drupal 8

The Latest Stack + The Latest Drupal

Pantheon provides the complete Drupal 8 experience:

• We have extensive experience with PHP 5.6.• Run Drupal 8 alongside all your other sites from a single dashboard—toggling

between environments to keep your old projects. Our container-based platform will ensure you’re running the right versions of PHP for any Drupal site.

• Drupal 8 was designed with workflow-centric platforms in mind. We designed Pantheon with workflow and best practices built in.

• Our export configuration button will make site building more accessible than ever, welcoming developers of all backgrounds and levels of experience to the Drupal world.

• We support Drush 8, the only Drush version that works with the latest Drupal.

Start your Drupal projects on Pantheon today.You’ve seen the platform designed for Drupal, now see Drupal designed for the platform.

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