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Plug and Play with Plugins
Plugins power many items in Drupal, such as blocks, field types, and field formatters. Plugins and plugin types are provided by modules. They provide a swappable and specific functionality.
In this chapter, we will implement a block plugin. We will use the Plugin API to provide a custom field type along with a widget and formatter for the field. The last recipe will show you how to create and use a custom plugin type.
Upcoming changes to the plugin system in Drupal minor versions
PHP 8 provides a feature called PHP attributes (https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.attributes.overview.php). With Drupal 10’s adoption of PHP 8.1, there is consideration to adopt PHP attributes over code document annotations, which are ...
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