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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 users


  1. Go to the Dashboard and select Search Users.

  2. Click on Add User and you see a screen similar to the following screenshot:

  3. The first three fields are mandatory. Enter your user credentials for the account you want to use as a member of your site in Username, Password and Email Address. Tick Members in the Groups section to assign the user the necessary group.

  4. Click on Add to confirm everything.

  5. Create another user who you want to use as an editor for your site. You should now have three users at the end, as shown in the following screenshot:

What just happened?

We've created two new users and assigned them to groups, which we'll use to allow them to edit the page and view a protected section that we're going to create. They are now visible when you have a look at the user section in the dashboard. In case the list gets bigger, concrete5 offers several tools, including the following:

  • A search box to find a username or e-mail address

  • Filters to display users belonging...