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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

Applying a theme to a single page


There are a few pages in concrete5 that you don't have to create on your own. They exist whether you like it or not but luckily the chances are you'll like them.

Assume you're using the existing login page you can find at http://localhost/login/ to grant some visitors access to the VIP section on your page. This works out of the box but it doesn't look like it should, as it still has the classic concrete5 look and doesn't look like our site at all.

To apply the look of our site, we have to do two things. Create a special file in our theme to handle these pages and activate the theme for these pages. The next two Time for action sections are going to do these steps.

Note

What's a single page?

A single page is a page which is likely to exist just once in your site. This is usually due to a certain functionality or layout such as the dashboard pages. A second screen to create users is quite useless which is why the dashboard has been built using single pages...