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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

Time for action – adding default blocks to a page type


Perform the following steps to add default blocks to a page type:

  1. Go to the dashboard and select Page Types:

  2. You can see a list with all available page types. Pick the page type Full or the one where you'd like to add some default blocks by clicking on the Defaults button in the row of the page type of your choice:

  3. You'll be redirected to a screen which looks like a normal page, and the alert message on top of the page shows us that we are actually on a page type. Switch to edit mode by clicking on Edit in the toolbar:

  4. Click on Add To Main and select the Content block. Enter some content and hit Add.

  5. Click on Editing and then Publish My Changes.

What just happened?

By adding a block to the page type defaults, you've created a template-like page, which will be copied to each page you're going to create from the same page type. After this step, you'll have a content block in every new page of that type.

Even if you're using this block in...