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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 – working with stacks


Perform the following steps to add stacks to your page:

  1. Click on Dashboard and then on Stacks:

  2. You should see a screen like the following, where you create a new stack. Enter a name like shown here:

  3. After you've entered the name of your stack, click on Add and the new stack will be added to the list. Click on your stack to edit it.

  4. Click on Add Block and you'll see the list of blocks. Select the content block or any other block you want and enter all the data the block interface is asking for.

  5. After you've added a new block, there's a new button called Approve Changes. Click on it to confirm the change and you're done creating the stack.

  6. Head back to the page where you want to insert the stack. Click on the area where you want to add the stack, but don't click on Add Block but rather on Add Stack:

  7. Click on My Stack and you'll see a new dialog. Here, you can add a single block from the stack or add the whole collection of blocks. We'll simply add all of...