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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

Working with maintenance tasks and jobs


Some features in concrete5 depend on automated jobs, which have to be periodically executed if you want to use them. By default, there are four jobs installed. You can find them if you type Jobs in the intelligent search box and click on the first entry in the search result:

  • Index Search Engine: The full text search engine uses the Zend Lucene search library, which has to be updated by a maintenance job. If you don't execute this job regularly, the website's users will only find old, outdated content.

  • Generate the sitemap.xml file: This job writes a file named sitemap.xml in the root of your website, which helps search engine crawlers to index your site.

  • Process Email Posts: concrete5 has the ability to handle incoming e-mails. The included community-like messaging system depends on it.

  • Remove Old Page Versions: If you keep working on a site for a while, you'll create a lot of versions. If you don't need the history of your changes, run this job and...