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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 – copying the block using the clipboard


Perform the following steps to copy the block using the clipboard:

  1. Navigate to the page where you have the block you want to copy. Click on the block and select Copy to Clipboard:

  2. Navigate to the page where you want to move the block. Click on the Add To Area link where you want to paste the block and select Paste from Clipboard:

  3. A dialog pops up with a list of all blocks in your clipboard. Click on the one you want to insert and you'll immediately see the block in its new place.

What just happened?

We've had a quick look at the way you can copy a block in concrete5. The clipboard in concrete5 isn't integrated into your operating system; it works only in concrete5, but since all the data is stored in the database, you can log out, shut down your computer, and will still find all the blocks in the clipboard. They stay there until you click on the little trash icon next to it to remove them.