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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 – adding pages to create a news section


Perform the following steps to add new pages to your site:

  1. When you're in the Dashboard, click on Full Sitemap.

  2. Click on the Home page and you'll be presented with a menu. Right now, we only need Add Page:

  3. Click on Add Page to bring the dialog up, where you can select the page type you want, and select Full:

  4. In the next screen you have to enter the Name of the page. It will automatically suggest the URL Slug used to access the page. If you want, you can override the suggested value:

  5. Click on the Add Page button and you should see the updated site map with the News page added as the last page under the home page.

  6. The page we just created is going to hold all the news entries together. Let's add one sample entry by clicking on News to bring up the menu and select Add Page again. Select a page type of your choice and enter a page name. You should have another page underneath news.

What just happened?

After the new pages have been added...