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Mastering Drupal 8
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Mastering Drupal 8

by Chaz Chumley, William Hurley
July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
11h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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Metadata

The metadata contained within a theme's *.info.yml file helps to describe what type of document it is. In our case, it begins to describe a theme, including the name, description, and the version of Drupal the theme works with. Some metadata is required for the theme to function properly, so let's explore the keys in more detail as follows:

  • name (required): This is the name of our theme.
  • type (required): This is the type of extension (theme, module, or profile).
  • base theme (required): This is the theme that the current theme is inheriting. In most cases, it is recommended that we reference either classy or stable as our base theme. If we choose not to reference a base theme, then we will need to set the value to false (base theme: ...
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ISBN: 9781785885976