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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 – activating the advanced permission mode


Carry out the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the dashboard.

  2. Type advanced permissions in the Intelligent Search box and click on the first entry in the list. You'll get to the following screen:

  3. Click on the Enable Advanced Permissions button to active the advanced mode.

What just happened?

We've enabled the advanced permission mode with a single click and now have the full permission power of concrete5 available. But keep in mind that once the advanced permission mode is active, there's no way back. The advanced permission mode is fine and works well but if you realize that you won't need it, you cannot simply undo the change. It might be wise to test the advanced permission mode on a playground site first and once you know that you really need it, enable it in production.

Managing advanced page permissions

When you open the permissions dialog for a page, you'll see a completely different dialog with a lot more options:

In the preceding...