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concrete5: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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concrete5: Beginner's Guide - 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 blocks to a new page


Add new blocks to your page by performing the following steps:

  1. Open the News page; it already works but we can't see our news entry. How can concrete5 know that we want to have a news list on this page? It can't, so let's help concrete5 and create that list manually.

  2. Go into edit mode by clicking on Edit.

  3. Display the block list by clicking on Add To Main.

  4. Select Page List.

  5. Change the option in the Location in Website section to beneath this page. This makes sure that only pages underneath news will be displayed. All other options can be left the way they are.

  6. Click on Add to insert the list into your page.

  7. Leave the edit mode by clicking on Editing and then Publish My Edits.

What just happened?

There's a rather simple, but working news section in your site, which we'll improve later by adding some more advanced features.

Even if the website you're creating still looks boring, at least you've got a structure. This makes the design process easier as...