November 06, 2014
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by Matt Korostoff, Senior Solutions Architect
Video and Blog Tutorial: Programmatically Creating a Block in Drupal 8
hook_block_info and hook_block_view are gone in Drupal 8. What's more the whole paradigm of creating blocks through the hook system is replaced with the Plugin API . In fact, the D8 road map called for eliminating all info hooks, though I'm unsure of the status of that initiative at the moment.