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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

CMS Made Simple is a an open source content management system that allows rapid website development in a fraction of the normal time, avoiding hours of coding by providing modules and 3rd Party add-ons. With this book in hand you will be able to harness the power of this modular and extendable content management system at your fingertips.This guide for CMS Made Simple is based on practical and working solutions allowing you to understand how this powerful and simple application can support you in your daily work. The workshop helps you create engaging, effective, and easy-to-use CMS websites for businesses, clubs, or organizations.This is a step- by-step case study, aimed at helping you build a complete professional website with CMS Made Simple. You can take a ready-to-use template or implement your own custom design, enrich the website with features like a photo gallery, an e-commerce solution with PayPal checkout, and forms of any complexity or popular JQuery effects and finish it off by optimizing it for search engines. The useful HTML and CSS code snippets are optimized and can be easily adapted for your own projects. Chapter by chapter you will put yourself in the role of web designer, developer, administrator, and business manager, thus learning every aspect needed for building rich websites that are very simple to manage.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
CMS Made Simple 1.6
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Time for action - adding page permissions


Assume that Mary was not only allowed to edit some pages, but also to create pages at certain places in the hierarchy. However, Mary is still not allowed to create pages at the top level of the website. In the last example, we added Mary as an additional editor to some pages. Let's give her the right to create new pages.

  1. 1. In the admin console, click on Users & Groups | Groups, and create a new group named Additional Editors.

  2. 2. Click on Users & Groups | Group Permissions, and assign the permission Add Pages to the group Additional Editors, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. 3. Click on Submit.

  2. 4. Assign Mary to the group Additional Editors (Users& Groups | Group Assignments).

  3. 5. Log out (CMS | Logout) and log in as Mary.

  4. 6. Click on the link Add New Content (Content | Pages), and see the options in the Parent field, as shown in the following screenshot:

What just happened?

Mary is an additional editor of the pages History, Team, and...