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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 – editing existing blocks


Perform the following steps to edit an existing block on your site:

  1. Once a block has been added, you can simply edit it again by clicking on it. The following menu appears with different options:

    The different options are as follows:

    • Edit: This option opens the block editing dialog, which you've seen when you added a new instance of the block. In the case of the Content block, you'll see the same WYSIWYG editor you saw when you added a new block, but depending on the block type, the dialog will look different.

    • Copy to Clipboard: This option copies the block into a clipboard from where you can paste it into different areas of the same or other pages.

    • Move: If you click on this option, you switch into a different mode, where you can drag blocks around to reorder them.

    • Delete: You don't need the block anymore? Click on this option and it's removed from the page.

    • Design: This option lets you style the blocks by using some CSS rules. There's another Time...