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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 – moving and sorting your pages


Perform the following steps to restructure your pages:

  1. Click on Dashboard and then Full Sitemap.

  2. Click on the icon of the page (not the name) you want to move, but don't release the mouse button.

  3. You can now drag the item around and change its position by dropping it between two other sitemap items. A line will appear where the page is moved:

  4. If you drop the item on top of another page, the following dialog shows up:

  5. Instead of just being able to rearrange your page, this dialog allows you to create an alias—a second URL for your page—as well as make copies of pages including its children.

What just happened?

We've discovered some drag-and-drop functionality in concrete5. Whenever you want to restructure your site and the page orders, these tools will help you achieve the task very quickly.