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Do not create a shared folder in settings/before - it will be created in step 3!

Enable symlinks for your VM

Open Windows PowerShell with adminstrator rights, enter:

$ VBoxManage setextradata YOURVMNAME VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/YOURSHAREFOLDERNAME 1

Check if it got set:

$ VBoxManage getextradata YOURVMNAME enumerate

Render custom blocks

$bid = 'myblock';
$block = \Drupal\block_content\Entity\BlockContent::load($bid);
$render = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getViewBuilder('block_content')->view($block);

Render plugin blocks

$block_manager = \Drupal::service('plugin.manager.block');

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html<?php print $html_attributes; ?>>
	<head>
	<?php print $head; ?>
	<title><?php print $head_title; ?></title>
	<?php print $styles; ?>
	<?php print $head_scripts; ?>
	</head>

	<body<?php print $body_attributes;?>>

	<? if ($articles->pagination()->hasPages()): ?>
	<ul class="pagination">
	<? if($articles->pagination()->hasNextPage()): ?>
	<li><a class="prev" href="<?= $articles->pagination()->nextPageURL() ?>">Older posts</a></li>
	<? endif; ?>

	<? foreach($articles->pagination()->range(5) as $paging): ?>
	<li><a href="<?= $articles->pagination()->pageURL($paging); ?>"><?= $paging; ?></a></li>
	<? endforeach ?>

	<?php

	/* Script located in the docroot for your Drupal 8 site */

	use Drupal\Core\DrupalKernel;
	use Drupal\Core\Site\Settings;
	use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;

	$autoloader = require_once __DIR__ . '/core/vendor/autoload.php';
	use GuzzleHttp\Client;