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concrete5: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition - Second Edition

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concrete5: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition - Second Edition

Overview of this book

concrete5 is an open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. concrete5 is designed for ease of use, and for users with limited technical skills. It enables users to edit site content directly from the page. It provides version management for every page and allows users to edit images through an embedded editor on the page. concrete5 Beginner's Guide shows you everything you need to get your own site up and running in no time. You will then learn how to change the look of it before you find out all you need to add custom functionality to concrete5. concrete5 Beginner's Guide starts with installation, then you customize the look and feel and continue to add your own functionality. After you've installed and configured your own concrete5 site, we'll have a closer look at themes and integrate a simple layout into concrete5. Afterwards, we're going to build a block from scratch which you can use to manage a news section. We're also going to add a button to our site which can be used to create a PDF document on the fly. This book also covers some examples that show you how to integrate an existing jQuery plugin. concrete5 Beginner's Guide is a book for developers looking to get started with concrete5 in order to create great websites and applications.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Time for action – exiting edit mode


When you changed into the edit mode, the toolbar on the top changed a bit. The Edit button looks different and when you hover or click on it, you'll see a slightly different menu too as shown in the following screenshot. You'll need one of the new items to confirm and publish your changes:

  1. The obvious first choice is Publish My Edits. It's what you'll need when you're done editing the page and want to confirm all changes and make them visible to the public.

  2. If you don't want to keep the changes, click on Discard My Edits and you're back, where you've been before.

  3. If you want to keep a draft of the changes, click on Preview My Edits. This will keep the changes, but not approve them, thus making them invisible to the public. You can see unapproved versions by clicking on Versions, where you can also manually approve it.

Pop quiz – concrete5 inside the editing mode

Try to remember the things you can do while you're inside editing mode.

Q1. What kind of blocks,...