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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 - restoring changes made by an editor


Assuming that you have installed the Archiver module, as just described, you can restore the changes made by the editor as follows:

  1. 1. Log in as the editor and edit any page that you are allowed to.

  1. 2. Log out and then log in again with the administrator account.

  2. 3. Click on Content | Archive Manager Module.

  3. 4. Search for the name of the page that has been edited in step 1, and click on it.

  4. 5. In the Expanded Archive View, find the second last version (revision) of the page and click on the last icon in the column Operation.

  5. 6. View the page.

What just happened?

You have restored the older version of the content and made it to the current one. The editor's version is not deleted but just replaced, so that you can restore it any time.

You can automatically purge archives either by the number of stored versions for each item (that is, keep only the last five versions of each page, global content block, stylesheet, or template) or by date (that...