Every introduction to coding starts with a “Hello, World!” example, right? With Drupal, it’s a bit more complex than just echo "Hello, World!". To follow Drupal best practices, we should provide content from our custom code in a way that allows a site administrator to choose where and when it’s shown, instead of hard-coding those decisions. This keeps our Drupal application flexible and customizable.
In this tutorial, we’ll:
- Author a custom block plugin that outputs the string “Hello, World!”.
- Place the block on the home page of our site.
By the end of this tutorial, you should have written the code for a custom block that can display the string “Hello, World!”.
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